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John Krauss

Personal blog · blog.accursedware.com · on HN as talosdata

John Krauss writes Accursed Ware, a personal blog at blog.accursedware.com about data. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “The NYPD's crash data has a booboo. Here's a band-aid.”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-06, and you can follow it by feed.

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11mentions?
3HN people?
2012–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2013

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog's post on NYPD crash data, cited in a discussion of whether collected traffic data is actually analyzed and acted on. The comments do not comment on the writing itself.

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.

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The author on HN?

talos · 378 karma · member since 2012

http://blog.accursedware.com https://github.com/talos https://twitter.com/recessionporn

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The NYPD's crash data has a booboo. Here's a band-aid.
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-02-16

What Hacker News says?

  1. danso · 2013-09-19
    No. Do not assume that just because the data is being collected, that it it is actually being analyzed, and definitely don't assume that even if it were analyzed, that the political will needed to effect reform will act. http://blog.accursedware.com/nypd-crash-data-band-aid/ In fact, it's not a given that it's being methodically collected in the first place.

    Comment linking /nypd-crash-data-band-aid/

    on “Former Amazon star exec killed in bike accident”
  2. talos · 2013-05-27

    Submitted Preparing a Mac laptop for your Grandma as a story · 75 points

    HN discussion
  3. talos · 2013-07-26

    Submitted Crashmapper: Visualizing Years of Traffic Collisions in NYC as a story · 61 points

    HN discussion
  4. talos · 2012-02-29

    Submitted Real-time chat without client-side code: No.JS as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  5. talos · 2012-02-16

    Submitted The NYPD's crash data has a booboo. Here's a band-aid. as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  6. talos · 2014-02-02

    Submitted NYC's official collision data riddled with errors as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. talos · 2013-07-29

    Submitted Installing a YouTube CLI on Mac (youtube-viewer) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. talos · 2013-07-12

    Submitted New Google Maps Mutilates the Bike Layer (in NYC) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. talos · 2013-07-05

    Submitted Newer NYC Buildings are less energy efficient as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. accursan · 2013-06-04

    Submitted SVG pan example as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. talos · 2012-01-20

    Submitted 2.2 million Jobs, or, the Long Reach of Industry Research as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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