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Héctor García
Personal blog · kirainet.comculturewriting
Héctor García writes Kirai, a personal blog at kirainet.com about culture and writing. Since 2010, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link posts about everyday life in Japan: a photo series on people sleeping, squatting, and Akihabara's electronics shops. None comment on the writing itself.
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.
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What Hacker News says?
Here's a photography series on Japanese people sleeping: http://www.kirainet.com/japoneses-durmiendo-15/
Comment linking /japoneses-durmiendo-15/
on “The Japanese art of not sleeping”Submitted Japanese marketer figures out the secret to getting retweets: Self Humiliation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionKirai[1] is also huge on the spanish speaking otaku communities, could be helpful if you get him to write a blog entry about your service. He also lives on japan, and last time i read his blog he worked on twitter. http://www.kirainet.com/
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on “Two years of life as an expat coder in middle-of-no-where Japan”I know it is quite common to see people squatting in Japan. http://www.kirainet.com/english/japanese-crouching/
Comment linking /english/japanese-crouching/
on “How bathroom posture affects your health.”On a related note, if you love(d) RadioShack, be sure to check out Akihabara ('Electric Town') in Tokyo if you ever get a chance. http://www.kirainet.com/english/radio-center/ . I have never seen so many electronic components on sale in one place. It was even possible to find "vintage" ICs.
Comment linking /english/radio-center/
on “The Lost Tribes of RadioShack”