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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.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- The Morality Apocalypse: An Open Letter to Bill and Melinda Gates2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-01-02
- Identifying Life-Changing Books with LLMs (2024)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-24
What Hacker News says?
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”Submitted Discoveries Ten Years Later in Zelda Speedrun as a story · 306 points
HN discussionSubmitted AT&T's Rube Golbergian Web Form as a story · 146 points
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HN discussionSubmitted The Morality Apocalypse: An Open Letter to Bill and Melinda Gates as a story · 56 points
HN discussionSubmitted Make it easy for me to vote with my wallet as a story · 32 points
HN discussionSubmitted Identifying Life-Changing Books with LLMs (2024) as a story · 18 points
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HN discussionSubmitted Bill Buxton: An unsung hero of the iPad as a story · 1 points
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