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Francesco Truzzi

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Francesco Truzzi's personal blog at truzzi.me covers programming and career. Since 2017, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Hire me and pay what you want, just give me interesting work”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
4HN people?
2017–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2021

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

Why HN links it

One commenter responds to a post offering to be hired for pay-what-you-want if the work is interesting, saying they had the same feeling after a recent contract job. The comment doesn't judge the writing.

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?

  1. Hire me and pay what you want, just give me interesting work
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-04-19

What Hacker News says?

  1. now here we go, I had this exact same feeling after doing a contract job recently. I'm going to place this url ( https://truzzi.me/hire-me-pay-what-you-want-interesting-work... ) into a db and start a site and also add my own profile and... wait, how will this different from linkedin? its like at some point, I need a MOTIVATED programmer that will give me that 24/7 move mountains full effort. Like there is famous Ja…

    Comment linking /hire-me-pay-what-you-want-interesting-work/

    on “Hire me and pay what you want, just give me interesting work”
  2. Submitted Hire me and pay what you want, just give me interesting work as a story · 507 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Story of a failure, or a rant on why I’ve always hated school as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Seamless TV DNS Switching with Dnsmasq and Home Assistant as a story · 1 points

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