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James Shelley
Personal blog · jamesshelley.comwritingphilosophy
James Shelley's personal blog at jamesshelley.com covers writing and philosophy. Since 2016, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked post is about the enjoyment of writing on the internet, going by its thread title. The one comment is about the site's robots.txt, which does not block ChatGPT's bot, and says nothing about 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.
What Hacker News says?
And the author didn't add ChatGPT Bot to their robots.txt either: https://jamesshelley.com/robots.txt So they let the good bot out, and the evil one in
Comment linking /robots.txt
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