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Go To Hellman
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Go To Hellman is a personal blog at go-to-hellman.blogspot.com about writing and business. Since 2009, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 91 times, most often “Heisenberg's Uncertain Copyright”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked once as a source for a January 2010 post on LibLime, the company behind the Koha open source library system, and its acquisition of Koha-related assets. No comment judges the writing itself.
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.
This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.
Most-linked posts?
- Heisenberg's Uncertain Copyright2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-12-13
- 16 of the Top 20 Research Journals Let Ad Networks Spy on Their Readers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-03-14
What Hacker News says?
here's the story of that: http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-dmca-takedown-...
Comment linking /2014/03/the-dmca-takedown-of-feynman-lectures.html
on “Feynman Lectures on Physics now free online”Submitted Offline Book "Lending" Costs U.S. Publishers Nearly $1 Trillion as a story · 114 points
HN discussionIf you're in Australia or Canada, you can find Gatsby links for your kindle or ipad at http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2013/05/its-legal-to-downl... If you're in the US or Europe, I'd advise you not to find those links.
Comment linking /2013/05/its-legal-to-download-great-gatsby.html
on “Why Isn't Gatsby in the Public Domain?”Submitted AI bots are destroying Open Access as a story · 99 points
HN discussionThe courts have generally only required a minimum of creativity to make something copyrightable. Also sentences are surprisingly easy to mke unique- see http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2009/11/uniqueness-of-sent...
Comment linking /2009/11/uniqueness-of-sentences-and-j-k.html
on “How I got sued by Facebook”Submitted It's legal to download The Great Gatsby in most of the world as a story · 91 points
HN discussionThe Threat to Book Publishing From Long-Dead Authors, and a Solution http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2011/04/threat-to-book-pub...
Comment linking /2011/04/threat-to-book-publishing-from-long.html
on “Collect HN: Aprils Fools”Submitted Co-Founders: Your Idea is Worthless. Show Your Chops as a story · 48 points
HN discussionThis was the first time Tufte had talked about this. I asked him after the talk. It was december 1962. http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2013/01/edward-tufte-was-p...
Comment linking /2013/01/edward-tufte-was-proto-phreaker.html
on “Edward Tufte’s defense of Aaron Swartz and the “marvelously different””Submitted GitHub giveth; Wikipedia taketh away as a story · 35 points
HN discussionI talked to Tufte after the event. It seems this was the first time, apart from some late-night cocktail parties, that he'd spoken about it publicly. http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2013/01/edward-tufte-was-p... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5086036
Comment linking /2013/01/edward-tufte-was-proto-phreaker.html
on “Edward Tufte’s defense of Aaron Swartz and the “marvelously different””Submitted The Future of the Book is Unfinished as a story · 31 points
HN discussionI think you really have to understand that at its heart, Let's Encrypt is not about free certs as much as it is about automatic certs. If you just want a cert, definitely use an established provider. But a year from know, LE will be making this a "set and forget" thing, which is how it should be. LE is NOT a painless way to get certs for legacy infrastructure. I found this out by using it for an elastic beanstalk ho…
Comment linking /2015/11/using-lets-encrypt-to-secure-elastic.html
on “Public Beta: December 3, 2015”Submitted Pick this Nit: Null Path URIs and the Pedantic Web as a story · 17 points
HN discussionabout 150,000 people have downloaded the bit.ly preview add-on, which tells bit.ly everything you visit: http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2010/05/bitly-preview-add-...
Comment linking /2010/05/bitly-preview-add-on-leaks-user.html
on “Firefox add-on with 7m downloads secretly tracks your browsing history”Submitted SOPA Could Put Common Library Software in the Soup as a story · 14 points
HN discussionThe much longer and slightly funnier version is up on my personal blog: http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2012/08/why-im-not-mad-at-...
Comment linking /2012/08/why-im-not-mad-at-amazon.html
on “Amazon forces Unglue.it to Suspend Crowdfunding for Creative Commons eBooks”Submitted ISBN numbers and electronic distribution: What IS an eBook, anyway? as a story · 14 points
HN discussionThe big issue is how little has changed; when I wrote that, I expected that the various koha stakeholders would recognize that they were all forced to live in one big tent, so finding accommodations would benefit all. But maybe the taniwha is being disturbed. http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2010/01/who-owns-koha.html
Comment linking /2010/01/who-owns-koha.html
on “Liblime seeks trademark for an open source product created by an NZ library”Submitted Stripe, Balanced, WePay for Payments: Not big enough to #fail as a story · 11 points
HN discussion- nl · 2011-11-22
I found this, from January 2010 (note the "including the US trademark"): LibLime (which is actually a trade name of Columbus, Ohio based Metavore, Inc.) was started in 2005 by Joshua Ferraro, Tina Berger and two others. LibLime has been the hardest-charging and fastest-growing proponent of the Koha Library System in the world. Over the intervening years, LibLime has acquired key Koha-related assets, including the US…
Comment linking /2010/01/ptfs-to-acquire-liblime-and-move-to.html
on “Liblime seeks trademark for an open source product created by an NZ library” Submitted Copyless Crowdscanning: How to Legally Index the World's Books as a story · 9 points
HN discussionA companion piece asks: If 3-d replicators existed, could everything be copyrighted? http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2010/09/library-journal-if...
Comment linking /2010/09/library-journal-if-librarians-ran.html
on “If Librarians Ran the Supermarket (If copyright exists in 24th century)”Submitted Twitter Bots Are Getting Stranger as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tr.im's Brief Demise and the Privacy Implications of the Bit.ly Monopoly as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted 16 of the Top 20 Research Journals Let Ad Networks Spy on Their Readers as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Pareto Principle and the True Cunning of HarperCollins as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Authors are Not People: ORCID and the Challenges of Name Disambiguation as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to check if your library is leaking catalog searches to Amazon as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Edward Tufte was a Proto-Phreaker (#aaronswnyc Part 1) as a story · 5 points
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