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James Cohen
Personal blog · webmonkeyuk.wordpress.comprogrammingsystems
James Cohen's personal blog at webmonkeyuk.wordpress.com covers programming and systems. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Putting a GPS Tracker in the mail”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked by one commenter in a thread about mailing an AirTag and tracking it. The URL suggests a 2012 post about putting a GPS tracker in a mailed package. No comment on the writing.
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.
Technology Musings
Most-linked posts?
- Putting a GPS Tracker in the mail2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-01-26
What Hacker News says?
https://webmonkeyuk.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/putting-a-gps-t...
Comment linking /2012/01/26/putting-a-gps-tracker-in-the-mail/
on “I mailed an AirTag and tracked its progress”Submitted How to work around Amazon EC2 outages as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted Putting a GPS Tracker in the mail as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Putting my GPS tracker in the mail and watching it being delivered as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Are recruiters creating “appealing” faux profiles? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Node.js 20 line proxy server ported to 15 lines of CoffeeScript as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bug fixing: Five tricks we can learn from doctors as a story · 1 points
HN discussion