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Flourishing

Personal blog · blog.joellehman.com · on HN as jal278programmingdatascience

Flourishing is a personal blog at blog.joellehman.com about programming, data and science. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 33 times, most often “The Morality Apocalypse: An Open Letter to Bill and Melinda Gates”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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33mentions?
5HN people?
2011–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 14 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The linked Flourishing posts appear in a thread on Ray Kurzweil's predictions of how the world will change. The one comment discusses technology advancing faster than morality, citing the atomic bomb and a 'morality apocalypse'.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

The author on HN?

jal278 · 1,180 karma · member since 2009

http://blog.joellehman.com

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The Morality Apocalypse: An Open Letter to Bill and Melinda Gates
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-01-02
  2. Identifying Life-Changing Books with LLMs (2024)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-24

What Hacker News says?

  1. What might happen is what I heard recently being called the "morality apocalypse" [1], i.e. technology is improving so fast, but we're not going to use it properly, probably not unlike when US used the atomic bomb on Japan the first time. It was a time when discovering the atomic bomb surpassed our morality by a long shot, and it took quite a few decades for our morality to catch-up to the technology, and understand…

    Comment linking /index.php/2014/01/morality-apocalypse-an-open-letter-to-bill-and-melinda-gates/

    on “Google’s Ray Kurzweil predicts how the world will change”
  2. Submitted Discoveries Ten Years Later in Zelda Speedrun as a story · 306 points

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  3. Submitted AT&T's Rube Golbergian Web Form as a story · 146 points

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  4. Submitted John Mayer on Finishing Awful Songs as a story · 86 points

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  5. Submitted The Morality Apocalypse: An Open Letter to Bill and Melinda Gates as a story · 56 points

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  6. Submitted Make it easy for me to vote with my wallet as a story · 32 points

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  7. Submitted Identifying Life-Changing Books with LLMs (2024) as a story · 18 points

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  8. Submitted Required Courses for Politicians: MMORPG Design as a story · 6 points

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  9. Submitted While not climax: Insert, remove as a story · 6 points

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  10. Submitted Misunderstanding Reality: Why Kevin Mitnick Spent a Year in Solitary as a story · 6 points

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  11. Submitted Louis CK on George Carlin: Innovate by throwing it all away as a story · 4 points

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  12. Submitted Celery+Python for a distributed GA in 80LOC as a story · 3 points

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  13. Submitted Identifying Life-Changing Books with LLMs as a story · 2 points

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  14. Submitted The Sunkist Principle as a story · 2 points

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  15. Submitted Van Gogh didn't like Starry Night as a story · 2 points

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  16. Submitted Email's not sexy as a story · 2 points

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  17. Submitted John Mayer on Finishing Projects (even if they are awful) as a story · 2 points

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  18. Submitted Entrenched interests and corrupted systems as a story · 2 points

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  19. Submitted You can't build railroads before it's railroad time as a story · 2 points

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  20. Submitted Righteous nerd rage and the electoral college as a story · 1 points

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  21. Submitted Living to maximize unique intellectual residue as a story · 1 points

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  22. Submitted Evolvability is inevitable as a story · 1 points

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  23. Submitted The Joy of Stapling as a story · 1 points

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  24. Submitted Natural flavor as a story · 1 points

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  25. Submitted The Kludge Toll as a story · 1 points

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  26. Submitted Dissertation Quest IV: The Hunt For Signatures as a story · 1 points

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  27. Submitted Licking trees -- why we drink coffee instead of taking caffeine pills as a story · 1 points

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  28. Submitted Disfigurement Paradox/Hacking Dating as a story · 1 points

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  29. Submitted Bill Buxton: An unsung hero of the iPad as a story · 1 points

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  30. Submitted Change the World: That Fleeting Holiday Idealism as a story · 1 points

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