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James Zhan

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James Zhan's personal blog at journal.james-zhan.com covers writing, ai and culture. Since 2025, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “"No AI" Statements Are More Than Mere Statements”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-14, and you can follow it by feed.

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5mentions?
4HN people?
2025–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2025

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog's post about Google de-indexing the author's entire Bear Blog site. The one comment discusses HTTP 304 and 301 responses on page reloads, not the writing itself.

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.

James Zhan’s personal blog where he shares opinion pieces, thoughts and other stuff he finds interesting.

Most-linked posts?

  1. "No AI" Statements Are More Than Mere Statements
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-22
  2. Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-12

What Hacker News says?

  1. When I reload the page " https://journal.james-zhan.com/google-de-indexed-my-entire-b... ", I get Request URL: https://journal.james-zhan.com/google-de-indexed-my-entire-b... Request Method: GET Status Code: 304 Not Modified So maybe it's the status code? Shouldn't that page return a 200 ok? When I go to blog.james..., I first get a 301 moved permanently, and then journal.james... loads, but it returns a 304 not mod…

    Comment linking /google-de-indexed-my-entire-bear-blog-and-i-dont-know-why/

    on “Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why”
  2. Submitted Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why as a story · 433 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted "No AI" Statements Are More Than Mere Statements as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted "No AI" Statements Are More Than Mere Statements as a story · 2 points

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