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Jason Kottke
Personal blog · kottke.orgculturedesignwriting
Jason Kottke's personal blog at kottke.org covers culture, design and writing. Since 2007, 682 different Hacker News readers have linked it 1,224 times, most often “Kottke.org ♥ home of fine hypertext products”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 5 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
Commenters name kottke.org a longtime favourite and cite its posts on journalism, a US dollar redesign, link blogging and other topics, often as sources.
- Recommended for · 5 comments
- Called a longtime favourite, suggested reading and a link blog one likes; its redesign concept impressive.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Jason Kottke's daily links and commentary on art, science, technology, design, film, and culture since 1998.
Most-linked posts?
- Kottke.org ♥ home of fine hypertext products15 people · 16 mentions · first linked 2017-10-14
- David Foster Wallace on iPhone 4's FaceTime 7 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2010-06-08
- /17/06/if-you-cant-explain-something-in-simple-terms-you-dont-understand-it7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2018-04-02
- NYC blogger suspends posts for now during Sandy aftermath6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2009-01-30
- /6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2010-08-16
- /21/02/conservatism-and-who-the-law-protects5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-01-29
- The Enshittification Lifecycle of Online Platforms4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-06-09
- It’s Time for Some Queueing Theory4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-01-29
- A plot of all objects in the universe (2023)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-09-26
- You commit three felonies a day4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-06-11
What Hacker News says?
I don't know much about unions, I admit. But, I offer these this counterpoint: The proposal is to use elevated tube on pylons. The pylons are likely to be of a regular design, probably made with steel molds. The amount of skilled labor to build them is likely to be much less than building overpasses. Musk has said that the tubes would be built in 30m segments in a factory, and welded in place. Given Musk's experienc…
Comment linking /13/07/how-the-tesla-model-s-is-made
on “Hyperloop”Submitted Color Night Vision (2016) [video] as a story · 625 points
HN discussionWhat gets passed off as news and journalism too often isn't either. Just because something happened (e.g., it rained) doesn't make it news. News has to have relevance and importance. With that proper definition as a filter, a fairly high percentage of US mainstream media news is in fact fake news. This higher revenue fluff is used intentionally to marginalize things that qualify as legit news. Yet somehow these memb…
Comment linking /20/01/jim-lehrers-rules-of-journalism-1
on “Things you notice when you quit the news (2016)”Submitted The Art Institute of Chicago Has Put 50k High-Res Images Online as a story · 624 points
HN discussionA fun contrast to this would be kottke.org's "Growing Sentences with David Foster Wallace" from a while back: http://kottke.org/09/03/growing-sentences-with-david-foster-... Also: I haven't read a whole lot of Hemingway, but when I did read him, I always thought he was much more versatile a writer than made out to be.
Comment linking /09/03/growing-sentences-with-david-foster-wallace
on “Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear”Submitted If you can’t explain something in simple terms, you don’t understand it as a story · 517 points
HN discussion> If robots produce so much value that it is actively not even viable for humans to work, the only real logical solution is to distribute the profits You don't understand. Almost nobody actually thinks about this in the right way, but it's actually basic economics. Salt. We used to fight wars for salt, but now it's literally given away for free (in restaurants). If "robots produce so much value" then all that value…
Comment linking /19/02/cheap-tvs-and-exorbitant-education-modern-america-in-one-chart
on “Replacement.ai”Submitted How photos were transmitted by wire in the 1930s as a story · 491 points
HN discussionThere are a few, such as https://kottke.org/ (started in 1998)
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on “My Life in Weeks”Submitted A sad update about a scissors maker that went viral as a story · 465 points
HN discussionAnd then Jason Kottke's stellar.io [1] http://kottke.org [2] http://stellar.io
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on “Stellar”Submitted The myth of NASA's expensive space pens as a story · 452 points
HN discussionYup. The $1000 iPhone app [2008] https://kottke.org/08/08/the-1000-iphone-app
Comment linking /08/08/the-1000-iphone-app
on “Louvre makes its entire collection available online”Submitted The Invention of a New Pasta Shape as a story · 446 points
HN discussionHow about all those bizarre or misapplied laws you could be violating if just someone knew you had done it . With pervasive monitoring, the uncommon-but-horrifying could become more commonplace: http://kottke.org/13/06/you-commit-three-felonies-a-day What you do can be construed as criminal if the prosecutor is interested enough.
Comment linking /13/06/you-commit-three-felonies-a-day
on “Amazon Echo”Submitted RIP the Broccoli Tree as a story · 417 points
HN discussionCan't find the link, but Kottke (of kottke.org) posted about this a while back. Russians apparently use dash cams to deter police corruption. Edit: Sorry, it's not police--they're used to aid in car insurance claims. See below. http://kottke.org/12/12/russians-are-dashboard-cam-crazy
Comment linking /12/12/russians-are-dashboard-cam-crazy
on “Meteorite crash in Russia”Submitted FedEx shipping damage creates fractured artworks as a story · 352 points
HN discussionThat quote parallels something that sticks with me from Umair Haque about how "the point of capitalism is to escape capitalism": https://kottke.org/18/10/if-the-point-of-capitalism-is-to-es...
Comment linking /18/10/if-the-point-of-capitalism-is-to-escape-capitalism-then-whats-the-point-of-capitalism
on “Life is not short”Submitted Nigerian Teens Are Making Sci-Fi Shorts with Slick Visual Effects as a story · 343 points
HN discussionhttps://kottke.org/
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on “Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?”Submitted The Remarkable Brain Waves of High Level Meditators [video] as a story · 343 points
HN discussionhttps://daringfireball.net https://kottke.org
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on “Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?”Submitted I’m going to miss you, but I am taking a sabbatical as a story · 339 points
HN discussionI still read some of the classics (surprised nobody mentioned them so far) and also a few newer ones: https://kottke.org/ https://daringfireball.net https://seths.blog https://www.freedomain.com/blog/ https://www.cringely.com https://www.zeldman.com https://captaincapitalism.blogspot.com http://quirksmode.org/blog/ http://hypercritical.co
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on “Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?”Submitted Benoit Mandelbrot, RIP as a story · 338 points
HN discussionSuggested reading: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Estate https://kottke.org/20/01/jim-lehrers-rules-of-journalism-1 Conclusion: We're not being harsh enough. We've been lowering the bar, not raising it. And it shows.
Comment linking /20/01/jim-lehrers-rules-of-journalism-1
on “American society is so focused on race that it is blind to class”Submitted Go Pro on a soaring eagle [video] as a story · 335 points
HN discussionKottke's article[0] is in 2008, after Fight Club's release in 1999, so you may be right, he probably lifted it from Fight Club. You can always email him to confirm! [0] https://kottke.org/08/02/single-serving-sites
Comment linking /08/02/single-serving-sites
on “Inside a viral website”Submitted You commit three felonies a day as a story · 333 points
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