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Gerry McGovern
Personal blog · gerrymcgovern.comaiweb
Gerry McGovern's personal blog at gerrymcgovern.com covers ai and web. Since 2009, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 34 times, most often “Less content marketing, more quality content”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Gerry McGovern's writing on the environmental cost of digital waste, such as images, data centres and lowercase text, and on why nobody cares about your website. The comments cite his posts rather than judging them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Less content marketing, more quality content2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-11-09
What Hacker News says?
What I find interesting here is how the effect of using lowercase would add up and reduce carbon production significantly. It reminds me of Gerry McGovern's articles on the use of images and the environmental impact that that has. https://gerrymcgovern.com/books/world-wide-waste/
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on “Lowercase letters save data”Submitted Data centers contain 90% crap data as a story · 227 points
HN discussionNot sure what the deal with that link is, but here's the actual source (with no weird footer): http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/nt/2009/nt-2009-08-10-nobody-ca...
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on “Nobody cares about your website.”Submitted AI is not your friend as a story · 93 points
HN discussionI also attended Chicago event a few years ago. I absolutely loved it, including the city of Chicago. My favorite part was accidentally having lunch with one of the attendees who happened to a speaker. https://gerrymcgovern.com/ I feel like UX as a discipline has changed so much particularly in the past few years that I've lost my love for it leading me to leave my job couple months ago to take a break. To me, the Ev…
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on “An Event Apart – Farewell”Submitted The era of distrust and disloyalty as a story · 72 points
HN discussionIt’s a bit of propaganda that the DCs are powered by renewables. https://gerrymcgovern.com/data-centers-greenwashing-par-exce...
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on “Intel Launches $699 Core I9-13900KS, the First 6 GHz CPU: Available Now”Submitted Service for Some, Slavery for Others as a story · 35 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fairness and kindness are not weaknesses as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted Big Tech's water use is 100 times bigger than expected as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Crap Data Everywhere as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted When the tech bros come for me as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Moore's Law is breaking down as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Is Designed to Lie as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted It's not drought, it's pillage: data centers take the water as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted The AI Believers as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI content production machine, advertising engine as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted The efficiency scam from AI and Big Tech as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Web content has a maintenance problem as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Unknowability of AI as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scots Gaelic and the Great Big Lying Machine as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI: Fed on water, energy, hype, stolen and crap data as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The myth of infinite data growth as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google Maps and its unintended consequences as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted One more con from Big Tech as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting Rid of Crap Data as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The dangers of only focusing on CO2 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data center surging electricity demand as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tailings: Mining’s Toxic Legacy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Less content marketing, more quality content as a story · 2 points
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