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Gordon's Notes
Personal blog · notes.kateva.orgbusinessculture
Gordon's Notes is a personal blog at notes.kateva.org about business and culture. Since 2010, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 61 times, most often “I won't be renewing my Pinboard subscription”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Gordon's Notes for its 2024 post arguing that Pinboard is in decline, which is cited in discussions about social bookmarking services and alternatives such as linkding.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A personal blog of diverse opinions.
Most-linked posts?
- I won't be renewing my Pinboard subscription3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-09-13
What Hacker News says?
Useful advice via http://notes.kateva.org/2012/08/net-security-is-completely-b... : 'We need to give Schneier a few drinks and get him to talk about this again. Failing that: Backup for Darwin's sake. Don't enable remote wipe of Mac OS X hardware. Just encrypt it. Use Google two-factor (two-step verification) if you are a geek and can stomach it. Fear the Cloud. Keep the data you value most close to you. Don't use i…
Comment linking /2012/08/net-security-is-completely-broken.html
on “How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking”Submitted I won't be renewing my Pinboard subscription as a story · 192 points
HN discussionIn social bookmarking delicious was the perfect platform, pinboard is the spiritual sucessor but apparently it has not the same technical support it used to have https://notes.kateva.org/2024/09/the-end-times-have-come-for... Tired of relying on other people's servers I'm moving links from google keep and browser to linkding https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding
Comment linking /2024/09/the-end-times-have-come-for-pinboardin.html
on “Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?”Submitted Amazon reviews now unreliable: negative reviews filtered (Anker example) as a story · 79 points
HN discussionI still miss trial versions. And downloads have recently become rather slow … Reviews are mostly useless except for actual paid apps. Reviews for 'free' apps (usually with ads or in-app purchases) are mostly worthless: http://notes.kateva.org/2012/04/side-effect-of-ios-in-app-pu...
Comment linking /2012/04/side-effect-of-ios-in-app-purchase.html
on “The App Store, 3 years later: Apple just doesn't care.”Submitted Inherit the Cloud: Who gets your Google Docs when you die? as a story · 33 points
HN discussionWithout judgement, but I think it's arguable that pinboard.in is "living". Maybe semi-alive at this point. One article about this: https://notes.kateva.org/2024/09/the-end-times-have-come-for... Searching on HN itself will reveal many more complaints over the last several years.
Comment linking /2024/09/the-end-times-have-come-for-pinboardin.html
on “Show HN: I made a tool for curating and sharing links as lists”Submitted Google's Project Glass - it's not for the young as a story · 21 points
HN discussionI'd love to upgrade to 10.13 to get the benefits of the new file system. My complaint is Apple's policy of automatically installing new versions of all their in-house apps along with the new OS. For example, I hate the gratuitous UI changes they made to the Photos app, but running the 10.12 version of Photos in 10.13 is probably not supported. Even if it were, Apple doesn't distribute older versions in the Mac App S…
Comment linking /2017/12/tech-regressions-more-quicken-palmos.html
on “Xcode 9.3 Beta”Submitted Scorched Earth - if Google can't own the web then it must destroy it as a story · 20 points
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HN discussionSubmitted Revenge of RSS: Google Returns to Blogs and Feeds as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Calculators are really weird tech, but their time may finally pass as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted I killed RSS as a story · 5 points
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HN discussionSubmitted Google 1.0 is dead. When did it start dying? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted American corporations and centrally planned economies of the Soviet empire(2008) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Year one of post-imperial America as a story · 3 points
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HN discussionSubmitted Blogger.com and Wordpress.com traffic post the end of Google Reader as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google+ Circles: agonizingly close as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google Quick, Sick and Dead - Reader is ailing, but there's been a turnaround as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted State of the Covid-19 Pandemic – Fall 2020 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Informatics core: US genomic and healthcare standards have a common problem as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple blogs: please stop confusing Apple shareholders with Apple customers` as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Apple killed the most important applications on the Mac: Aperture and iPhoto as a story · 2 points
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