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Evan Carroll
Personal blog · substack.evancarroll.compoliticsprogramming
Evan Carroll writes Scientific Journal of Objective Truths and Proof, a personal blog at substack.evancarroll.com about politics and programming. Since 2025, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-08, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Commenters link Evan Carroll's Substack as his response to a Hacker News post about the Luigi Mangione Stack Overflow account rename. One quotes a passage on AI chatbots versus newspaper archives.
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Objectively true statements in the realm of politics and technology, interspersed amongst the best opinions.
Most-linked posts?
- Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-09
What Hacker News says?
Here is my response to the post on Hacker News. https://substack.evancarroll.com/p/hacker-news-where-the-bil...
Comment linking /p/hacker-news-where-the-billionaires
on “Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow”Submitted Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow as a story · 990 points
HN discussion> To further analyse the extent of AI’s handicap, I questioned both ChatGPT and Gemini about the “first Indian Prime Minister to visit Palestine”; it answered — Narendra Modi on February 10, 2018, when he visited Ramallah in the West Bank and held talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. However, a look into The Hindu’s archives shows that Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Indian Prime Minister to visit the Gaza…
Comment linking /p/the-erasure-of-luigi-mangione
on “Newspaper archives still trump answers generated by AI”Submitted An introduction to Git cliff for release management as a story · 1 points
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