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Jeff Covey
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Jeff Covey's personal blog at jeffcovey.net covers programming and history. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Freshmeat.net, 1997-2014 (2014)”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
An obituary for Freshmeat.net, the software directory that ran from 1997 to 2014, linked from a Show HN thread about a network-peer map widget. It mainly prompted a nostalgic recollection.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- Freshmeat.net, 1997-2014 (2014)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-03-07
What Hacker News says?
Way to make us feel old :) Others have mentioned it was a directory, but it sent me off on a nostalgia trip, so here is an "obituary" of sorts, that is itself getting rather old: https://jeffcovey.net/2014/06/19/freshmeat-net-1997-2014/ And here's the HN discussion from back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7925135 (including a couple of my own comments, which aren't all that intersting) And the wikipedia…
Comment linking /2014/06/19/freshmeat-net-1997-2014/
on “Show HN: X11 desktop widget that shows location of your network peers on a map”Submitted Freshmeat.net, 1997-2014 as a story · 280 points
HN discussionSubmitted Freshmeat.net, 1997-2014 (2014) as a story · 211 points
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