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James Hawley
Personal blog · jrhawley.cascienceprogramming
James Hawley's personal blog at jrhawley.ca covers science and programming. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
An HN commenter links a post about being blocked by Cloudflare, citing its section on implications and noting that it mentions Google's crawler. The comment cites the post without judging it.
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.
What Hacker News says?
https://jrhawley.ca My personal site that I run with Jekyll + GitHub Pages, but wrote a bunch of custom code for myself. I like writing about science and math, but also some personal stuff too from time to time.
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted Science is political and always has been (2024) as a story · 17 points
HN discussionOn Windows, probably the easiest way is to use Scoop [0]. You can then install org-mode with `M-x package-install org-plus-contrib` If you want to set it up in your `~/.emacs.d/init.el` config, you can use something like `use-package` [1] to make the installation easier : ```elisp (add-to-list 'package-archives '("Org" . " https://orgmode.org/elpa/ ")) (use-package org :ensure org-plus-contrib :mode ("\\.org\\'" . o…
Comment linking /2020/03/08/emacs
on “Org Mode 9.5”Submitted Most of your favourite mathematicians knew each other as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThey do mention it (Google's at least) in this section [0] [0] https://jrhawley.ca/2023/08/07/blocked-by-cloudflare#implica...
Comment linking /2023/08/07/blocked-by-cloudflare
on “Blocked by Cloudflare”Submitted It's Your Job to Understand as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI am the developer for this small application. I made it recently for my own purposes and thought the HN crowd might find it useful. I'm happy to take feedback. Here [0] is an associated blog post for the tool. [0]: https://jrhawley.ca/2020/11/16/pad-path
Comment linking /2020/11/16/pad-path
on “Pad-path: Intuitively modify your $PATH”Submitted Blocked by Cloudflare as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Academic Twitter, Just Leave as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Illumina Flow Cell Teardown as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Write the Documentation First as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We need an XDG spec for repositories as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What's missing from values in data tables as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cross-Compiling with Rust as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: A CLI for HomeBank as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Philosophy of Science Is Fascinating as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Remote collaboration fuses fewer breakthrough ideas? Probably not as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Static Binaries by Default in Bioinformatics as a story · 1 points
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