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Felix Rieseberg
Personal blog · felixrieseberg.com · on HN as felixriesebergprogrammingai
Felix Rieseberg's personal blog at felixrieseberg.com covers programming and ai. Since 2015, 23 different Hacker News readers have linked it 37 times, most often “How to be more ambitious: A tutorial for humans with models”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Felix Rieseberg's site for a tutorial on being more ambitious, a guide to how his homepage was made, and older Node and npm notes.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I work on Claude at Anthropic. Electron co-maintainer. Maintainer of too many little open source projects. Some of it is on VHS.
Most-linked posts?
- How to be more ambitious: A tutorial for humans with models6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2026-10-13
- Things people get wrong about Electron6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2025-01-21
- Made by Mechanical Means3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2026-09-28
- Progressive Web Apps and Electron2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-04-08
- Npm3 is here and it's a huge deal for Windows2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-06-26
- Running Your Own Parse with Azure and Docker2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-01-29
What Hacker News says?
Just read this article, may be it gives you a new perspective of this times https://felixrieseberg.com/how-to-be-more-ambitious-a-tutori...
Comment linking /how-to-be-more-ambitious-a-tutorial-for-humans-with-models/
on “Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men”Submitted Felix Rieseberg Homepage as a story · 285 points
HN discussionA Claude supervising a fleet of Claudes on a fleet of Cloud VMs with intricate knowledge of all flights of white collar work (cf https://felixrieseberg.com/made-by-mechanical-means/ ). Traditional software engineering is so dead for the 99% of use cases...
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on “Felix Rieseberg Homepage”Submitted Hunger beats tenure: Advice for junior engineers as a story · 131 points
HN discussionguide to how it was created: https://felixrieseberg.com/made-by-mechanical-means/
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on “Felix Rieseberg Homepage”Submitted Made by Mechanical Means as a story · 72 points
HN discussionhe wrote in-depth about how it was created https://felixrieseberg.com/made-by-mechanical-means/
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on “Felix Rieseberg Homepage”Submitted Deploying SailsJS Apps in Seconds as a story · 43 points
HN discussionan in-depth post about how he made it: https://felixrieseberg.com/made-by-mechanical-means/ extremely fascinating details in here
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on “Felix Rieseberg Homepage”Submitted How to be more ambitious: A tutorial for humans with models as a story · 30 points
HN discussionI used to be the project lead for Electron at Microsoft (now building the Slack Desktop App) and I'm super happy to say that there's been a lot of great work around interacting with native Windows APIs from Electron: https://felixrieseberg.com/using-native-windows-features-fro...
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on “Windows Code Samples”Submitted Things people get wrong about Electron as a story · 17 points
HN discussionIt was an npm issue, fixed in npm 3. http://www.felixrieseberg.com/npm-v3-is-out-and-its-a-really...
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on “Habits of a Happy Node Hacker”Submitted Things people get wrong about Electron as a story · 14 points
HN discussionI had a lot of fun hacking away with the DEIS guyson the Azure integration. If you want a quick overview post, I wrote a "from 0 to cluster": http://felixrieseberg.com/deis-azure-coreos/
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on “Deis v1.4 – Now on Azure”Submitted Things people get wrong about Electron as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to be more ambitious: A tutorial for humans with models as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running Your Own Parse with Azure and Docker as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Things people get wrong about Electron as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Things people get wrong about Electron as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running Parse Open Source with Docker as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Npm3 is here and it's a huge deal for Windows as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to be more ambitious: A tutorial for humans with models as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to be more ambitious when using AI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Things people get wrong about Electron as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Debugging Native Crashes in Electron Apps on Windows as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Parse is shutting down. Host your own server on Azure as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What the heck is a Microsoft Open Source Engineer, Anyway? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automatically deploy io.js on Azure Websites as a story · 2 points
HN discussion- ot · 2026-10-14
Submitted How to be more ambitious: A tutorial for humans with models as a story · 1 points
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