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Jeffrey Veen

Personal blog · veen.comdesignweb

Jeffrey Veen's personal blog at veen.com covers design and web. Since 2009, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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12mentions?
11HN people?
2009–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2010

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Jeffrey Veen's post about Wikirank, a tool for visualizing Wikipedia page traffic, and mention that its data dumps are available. The only comment on the post is a neutral mention.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

What Hacker News says?

  1. remi · 2011-08-11
    Too bad Wikirank has been shut down... it was a great way to visualize Wikipedia pages traffic. http://www.veen.com/jeff/archives/000998.html The stats data dumps are available here: http://dammit.lt/wikistats/

    Comment linking /jeff/archives/000998.html

    on “Wikipedia traffic statistics for Hacker News (or any other article)”
  2. ivankirigin · 2009-09-10

    Submitted MP3 Blogs and wget as a story · 44 points

    HN discussion
  3. foobar_ · 2020-06-29
    Well thats a chicken and egg problem in a way. Without data you can't build some types of software. I think you have three types of data. 1. Private data / Linked Data This is the data contributed by the user. Shopping data for example. I think the EU data laws are meant to guard this. I think it is both unethical and illegal to sell / publish primary data without the user's consent. 2. Public data In social network…

    Comment linking /jeff/archives/000810.html

    on “Ask HN: Has FOSS Software Won?”
  4. access_denied · 2010-01-16

    Submitted Looking back at Hotwired as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  5. briandoll · 2011-11-18

    Submitted Building Typekit on relationships as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  6. bdz · 2013-04-22

    Submitted Rm -r * as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. bdz · 2019-01-17

    Submitted Rm -r * (2006) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. oyvindeh · 2013-12-11

    Submitted I don't care about accessibility (2004) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. kingsidharth · 2010-11-07

    Submitted Making A Better Open Source CMS as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. kaizenb · 2026-01-22

    Submitted Coding Agents and the Future of Design as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. theandym · 2010-02-16

    Submitted "Good design can't fix broken business models." as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. peter123 · 2009-04-22

    Submitted Designing for Big Data, by Jeffrey Veen as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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