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Johannes Ernst writes Upon 2020, a personal blog at upon2020.com about systems, security and hardware. Since 2011, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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2011–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2011

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Why HN links it

Johannes Ernst's blog, which HN readers link in discussions of open source business, including a 2015 response to Ben Werdmuller's article on lessons learned building an open source business.

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What Hacker News says?

  1. kawera · 2015-12-06Recommends
    And a thoughtful response to this article: http://upon2020.com/blog/2015/11/responding-to-ben-werdmulle...

    Comment linking /blog/2015/11/responding-to-ben-werdmullers-open-issues-lessons-learned-building-an-open-source-business/

    on “Lessons learned building an open source business”
  2. Submitted Why decentralized social networking never makes it as a story · 66 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted We need open source firmware as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Who's Building the Open Source Version of Siri? as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Why the EC2 Outage Might Have Killed Amazon’s Shot at PaaS Dominance as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Open-sourcing my (literal) Pain in the Butt as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted The UBOS Shepherd Rules Their #IoT Device Flock with a Staff as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Why Decentralized Software is 10x Harder as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Eucalyptus and OpenStack: A Discussion with Marten Mickos as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted There is no multi-tenant architecture, there are three as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Paradux: a scheme to recover from maximum personal data disaster as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted A 3D-Printable Box for the ESPRESSObin Plus a Hard Disk (now with Disk Pictures) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Why AccountChooser Isn't as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Will Apple Buy a Carrier? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Why Software Projects are “80% Done” 80% of the Time as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted OpenStack: The House Elves of Your Datacenter as a story · 1 points

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