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James O'Beirne

Personal blog · jameso.be · on HN as jobeirneprogrammingpolitics

James O'Beirne writes jamesob, a personal blog at jameso.be about programming and politics. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Bitcoin for Safety”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-11-14, and you can follow it by feed.

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11mentions?
3HN people?
2011–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2012

The author on HN?

jobeirne · 1,854 karma · member since 2007

https://jameso.be https://twitter.com/jamesob

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Bitcoin for Safety
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-08-27

What Hacker News says?

  1. jobeirne · 2011-08-21

    Submitted Coding backwards as a story · 140 points

    HN discussion
  2. jobeirne · 2014-01-19

    Submitted Lisp: More is less as a story · 113 points

    HN discussion
  3. jobeirne · 2014-01-01

    Submitted Greenwald's keynote at 30c3: priorities for privacy activists as a story · 63 points

    HN discussion
  4. jobeirne · 2013-08-07

    Submitted How namedtuple works in Python 2.7 as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. jobeirne · 2012-02-12

    Submitted The medium obscures the message: why programming languages matter as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  6. willcosgrove · 2019-08-28

    Submitted Bitcoin for Safety as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. jobeirne · 2015-10-15

    Submitted WWI as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. jobeirne · 2012-05-28

    Submitted How I'm scraping my CC transactions with Selenium as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. arto · 2019-08-27

    Submitted Bitcoin for Safety as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. jobeirne · 2015-02-12

    Submitted Ignore the gurus (including me) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. jobeirne · 2013-11-16

    Submitted Good tests, bad tests as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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