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Fogknife
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Fogknife is a personal blog at fogknife.com about writing and culture. Since 2017, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a first-run report on the Universal Paperclips game with advice and no spoilers, and for a 2015 post supporting the use of Twitter blocking tools.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
It is a fantastic game. Speed runners have done it in 1:40:05, first runs can take 8 - 12 hours or more. A first run report, with advice but no spoilers https://fogknife.com/2017-10-11-i-played-universal-paperclip... Some interviews with the designer, and previous postings: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... Other great idle/clicker/growth games include: * Drowning in Problems: http://ga…
Comment linking /2017-10-11-i-played-universal-paperclips.html
on “Universal Paperclips”Submitted Why I left Google as a story · 103 points
HN discussionAt the height of the GamerGate debacle someone created an auto blocker that automatically blocked ppl on a list, it also blocked anyone who followed those ppl. So if, like me, you didn’t necessarily agree with the views of ppl on that list but followed them to get a sense of who they are and what perspective is, you got blocked right along with them. ( http://fogknife.com/2015-07-27-why-i-support-the-use-of-twit... )
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on “Node.js leadership is a toxic mess”Submitted The IndieWeb needs to believe in itself (2018) as a story · 95 points
HN discussionSubmitted To My Friends at Facebook as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Rapture of the Programming Languages as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I believe in the Indieweb. It needs to believe in itself as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How and why I deleted 40k tweets as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Assert your way to stronger technical writing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sweat – Workout timer for the command line as a story · 1 points
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