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Greg Cochard

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Greg Cochard's personal blog at gregcochard.com covers programming and security. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2015–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked as a related idea to daylight saving time: "Daylight Smearing Time", spreading the clock change out gradually. Commenters cite it without judging it.

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.

Software, software engineering, open source, and anything else I feel compelled to write about.

Most-linked posts?

  1. /daylight-savings-time-smearing/
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-03-15

What Hacker News says?

  1. If this doesn't work out there's always Daylight Smearing Time. https://xkcd.com/2266/ https://gregcochard.com/daylight-savings-time-smearing/

    Comment linking /daylight-savings-time-smearing/

    on “US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent”
  2. Submitted Mint, OAuth, Banks, and Security as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  3. Apparently you're not alone: https://gregcochard.com/daylight-savings-time-smearing/

    Comment linking /daylight-savings-time-smearing/

    on “Daylight saving time and early school start times cost billions”

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