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Joe Previte

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Joe Previte's personal blog at joeprevite.com covers programming, productivity and career. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Overcoming the Friendship Recession”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-08-12, and you can follow it by feed.

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7mentions?
4HN people?
2020–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2023

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

Why HN links it

Cited in an HN thread on young men spending more free time alone than any other group, as an additional citation on the friendship recession. The commenter only links it.

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.

Joe Previte is a developer who writes about webdev, indiehacking and web3.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Overcoming the Friendship Recession
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-01-24

What Hacker News says?

  1. Additional citation: https://joeprevite.com/friendship-recession/

    Comment linking /friendship-recession/

    on “Young men now spend more of their free time alone than any other group”
  2. Submitted Show HN: Python script to send monthly Venmo requests as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Overcoming the Friendship Recession as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Mastering Skills: The 1% Formula as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Overcoming the Friendship Recession as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Only speaking to my daughter in Spanish for 2 years as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Understanding the Rust Ecosystem as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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