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John C. Dvorak
Personal blog · dvorak.org/blogculturehardware
John C. Dvorak writes Dvorak News Blog, a personal blog at dvorak.org about culture and hardware. Since 2008, 26 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “What ever happened to Wordstar?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link John C. Dvorak's blog for posts on computing history, the economics of indie app development, cybersecurity and civil liberties. Few comments judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- What ever happened to Wordstar?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-07-18
- IBM and the Seven Dwarfs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-06-06
What Hacker News says?
If you didn't know, he has a blog ( http://www.dvorak.org/blog/ ) and is a co-host of the No Agenda Show Podcast ( http://www.noagendashow.com/ ) and DHUnplugged ( https://www.dhunplugged.com/ )
Comment linking /blog/
on “John Dvorak: “Yesterday I was fired from PC Magazine””Submitted What ever happened to Wordstar? as a story · 235 points
HN discussionhttp://www.dvorak.org/blog/2008/01/13/bank-robber-dresses-up...
Comment linking /blog/2008/01/13/bank-robber-dresses-up-as-a-brinks-driver-clueless-bank-employees-give-him-100000/
on “Illegal Engineering”Submitted Is US Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra a Phony? as a story · 157 points
HN discussionmean revenue is ~$3000 per year, median is $682. [1] [1] http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2010/06/24/so-you-want-to-develop...
Comment linking /blog/2010/06/24/so-you-want-to-develop-iphone-apps-eh-you-really-want-to-read-this/
on “My Year as an Amateur Android Game Developer”Submitted Spam Filtering Service Had Access to Clinton Emails as a story · 71 points
HN discussionRelated: http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2006/03/03/the-new-civil-disobedi... . (Video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6g8pJTsoBQ )
Comment linking /blog/2006/03/03/the-new-civil-disobedience-obeying-the-speed-limit/
on “Giving the F.B.I. What It Wants”Submitted Whatever Happened to MSX Computers? as a story · 58 points
HN discussionJon, I've been looking into a lot of elements of information goods, and there are a few bits I'm coming to realise, slowly (it's only been 30 years I've been studying this). 1. Information is a public good. Nonrivalrous, only very difficultly excludable. Strong positive externalities. Hal Varian's got a good piece on this. Doesn't mean you cannot sell it, but it means that doing exclusively has serious negative effe…
Comment linking /blog/whatever-happened-to-wordstar-2/
on “The Internet of Onions”Submitted Why Linux sucks and will never compete with Windows or OS X as a story · 38 points
HN discussionJohn Dvorak has a interesting piece on Burroughs here : "The [ElectroData derived Burroughs 205] drum had two sections. The high speed access section which had each piece of data duplicated 10 times and offset on various bands on the drum to increase the access time by 10. Here the average data access time was .85 milliseconds." my mom performed her bank clerk job on Burroughs Adding Machines, in the early 50s. IBM…
Comment linking /blog/ibm-and-the-seven-dwarfs-dwarf-one-burroughs/
on “Burroughs B 5500 Infomration Processing System (1964) [pdf]”Submitted The Cost Of A Long Life as a story · 23 points
HN discussionYep, here you go: http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2010/01/13/chinas-sophistcated-ha... The FBI report estimates that since 2003, the Chinese Army has specifically developed a network of over 30,000 Chinese military cyberspies, plus more than 150,000 private-sector computer experts, whose mission is to steal American military and technological secrets and cause mischief in government and financial services.
Comment linking /blog/2010/01/13/chinas-sophistcated-hacker-army-the-worlds-best-cyber-terrorists/
on “"What Is the Chinese Economic Model?" author reports server attacked”Submitted LifeLock CEO Had His Own Identity Stolen Numerous Times, Suit Alleges as a story · 22 points
HN discussionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Dvorak https://www.dvorak.org/blog/
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on “John C. Dvorak – heart attack – in hospital”Submitted IBM and the Seven Dwarfs as a story · 19 points
HN discussionOriginal opinion, since hardly anyone sees fit to link people to it: http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/121310virgi... (Personally, seeing as how the Commerce Clause already allows Congress to regulate a simple act of commerce between me and my literal neighbor with things like the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act ( http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2008/12/24/new-overreaching-toy-t... ) which has crim…
Comment linking /blog/2008/12/24/new-overreaching-toy-testing-law-will-force-small-us-toymakers-out-of-business/
on “Central Provision of Health Care Law is Ruled Unconstitutional”Submitted TSA Employee Caught Lifting iPads from Luggage as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Whatever Happened to the First Personal Computer? The Story of the Altair as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Former EFF Server Admin Suing Google Over HTTPS Everywhere Efforts [pdf] as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Whatever Happened to Context MBA? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Philosophy of Star Trek as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Whatever Happened to Wordstar? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Spam Filtering Company MxLogic Had Access to Clinton Emails (2015) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Guam will tip over and capsize because of overpopulation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fastest production car in the world also has the world's worst name as a story · 1 points
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