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Jillian C. York

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Jillian C. York's personal blog at jilliancyork.com covers politics and security. Since 2010, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-10, and you can follow it by feed.

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2010–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2011

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

Why HN links it

The linked posts are by Jillian C. York: one on Microsoft fixing an HTTPS bug in Hotmail, and one collecting her writing. Commenters link them as references, with no comment on the writing itself.

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. Looks like its fixed already. Swift! http://jilliancyork.com/2011/03/26/microsoft-fixes-bug-re-en...

    Comment linking /2011/03/26/microsoft-fixes-bug-re-enables-https-for-all-users/

    on “Microsoft Shuts off HTTPS in Hotmail for Over a Dozen Countries”
  2. Submitted “I don’t want to give out my phone number” – A gendered security issue as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  3. Oh great, Thomas Friedman. http://www.salon.com/2012/07/25/the_value_of_tom_friedman/ http://nypress.com/flathead/ http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/no-kiddi... http://jilliancyork.com/2011/12/14/the-definitive-collection...

    Comment linking /2011/12/14/the-definitive-collection-of-thomas-friedman-takedowns/

    on “How to Get a Job at Google”
  4. Submitted Everything Old Is New Part 2: Why Online Anonymity Matters as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Haystack and Media Irresponsibility as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Everything pundits are getting wrong about this moment in content moderation as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Daniel Castro misuses DNS circumvention report findings to support SOPA as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Tunisian Blogger Slim Amamou Arrested as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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