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Justin Keller
Personal blog · justink.svbtle.comstartupsculture
Justin Keller's personal blog at justink.svbtle.com covers startups and culture. Since 2013, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 33 times, most often “Open Letter to SF Mayor Ed Lee and Greg Suhr”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Justin Keller's open letter to SF Mayor Ed Lee on homelessness and tech workers, mostly in threads on San Francisco's homeless camps and tech culture. Comments focus on the letter's content.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Justin Keller | Founder of tech things (https://elasticbyte.net). Nashville TN 🇺🇸. Entrepreneur, music lover, Elon driver, mac & 🧀 connoisseur, traveling the world.
Most-linked posts?
- Open Letter to SF Mayor Ed Lee and Greg Suhr5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-02-15
- /open-letter-to-mayor-ed-lee-and-greg-suhr-police-chief4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-02-18
What Hacker News says?
I wrote a blog post on this last night (Tesla model S and the three laws of robotics). http://justink.svbtle.com/tesla-model-s-and-the-three-laws-o...
Comment linking /tesla-model-s-and-the-three-laws-of-robotics
on “Model S Fire”Submitted Stripe put my startup out of business before I launched as a story · 92 points
HN discussionAwesome. Much better than my hand-written notes. http://justink.svbtle.com/my-hand-written-notes-from-startup...
Comment linking /my-hand-written-notes-from-startup-school-2013
on “Startup School 2013 Doodles”Submitted Being a single founder with a speech impediment as a story · 47 points
HN discussionJustin Keller's own words about this seem to imply that he thinks Democracy is a state of decay in politics: http://justink.svbtle.com/open-letter-to-mayor-ed-lee-and-gr... This guy seems thoroughly unsavoury.
Comment linking /open-letter-to-mayor-ed-lee-and-greg-suhr-police-chief
on “SF tech bro: ‘I shouldn’t have to see the pain, struggle, despair of homeless’”Submitted Open Letter to SF Mayor Ed Lee and Greg Suhr as a story · 6 points
HN discussionyeah that's wildly charitable: https://justink.svbtle.com/open-letter-to-mayor-ed-lee-and-g... > Every day, on my way to, and from work, I see people sprawled across the sidewalk, tent cities, human feces, and the faces of addiction. The city is becoming a shanty town… Worst of all, it is unsafe. > [...] > I am telling you, there is going to be a revolution. People on both sides are frustrated, and you can sense the…
Comment linking /open-letter-to-mayor-ed-lee-and-greg-suhr-police-chief
on “SF tech bro: ‘I shouldn’t have to see the pain, struggle, despair of homeless’”Submitted Online sportsbooks. A security and fraud nightmare (2015) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIt's weird to see this article reference the Justin Keller open letter and pretend that its intended purpose was to call attention to the problem of unhoused people with mental health issues in SF. As if his "heretical" act that attracted public anger was to point out an obvious injustice. The actual text of the letter[0] argued that people who can't afford homes or who have mental health issues _don't deserve to li…
Comment linking /open-letter-to-mayor-ed-lee-and-greg-suhr-police-chief
on “The Bay Area has become a large declining tech company”Submitted The shower epiphany as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI'd like to see Stripe go public instead of raising additional VC capital. They could really spark a series of tech IPOs strengthening tech stocks. I don't have any insider knowledge (besides my research when working on my failed startup Charge Control[1]), but I would be shocked if Stripe is not profitable. [1] https://justink.svbtle.com/stripe-put-my-startup-out-of-busi...
Comment linking /stripe-put-my-startup-out-of-business-before-i-launched
on “Stripe has raised $150M more at a $9B valuation”Submitted Open Letter to SF Mayor Ed Lee and Greg Suhr (police Chief) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI've come to realize that Hacker News for the most part is not a good forum for discussing the market. There seems to be a lot of disdain and calling it a "rigged" system that makes the rich richer. Just look at the comments at the bottom of this thread. That sort of mentality is ill-informed of finance and the market. The market is not only for millionaires and billionaires. You can trade $6.95 on ETRADE now and ca…
Comment linking /leveraging-capital-using-robinhood-gold
on “Stocks are up but 80% of the value is held by the richest 10%”Submitted China… We need to talk as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI use Robinhood in tandem with my traditional online brokerage and love it. The Robinhood iOS interface is really excellent, though they provide way less technical tools and analysis than my traditional online brokerage. However this is to be expected since Robinhood is targeting non-pro/power users. Trade execution time and preference has actually been solid on Robinhood, though untested in a highly volatile situat…
Comment linking /leveraging-capital-using-robinhood-gold
on “Robinhood stock trading app valued at $1.3B with big raise from DST”Submitted My hand written notes from Startup School 2013 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI also have a stutter, and I've blogged about being a single founder with it ( https://justink.svbtle.com/being-a-founder-with-a-speech-imp... ). I've had a speech impediment since I was a kid. I was told I would grow out of it. Still waiting for that to happen. :-) I've noticed my stuttering has seasons/cycles of worse times, which seem to be tied to stress or anxiety over important calls or meetings. My stuttering…
Comment linking /being-a-founder-with-a-speech-impediment
on “How to Stop Apologizing for My Stutter, and Other Important Lessons”Submitted Tesla model S and the three laws of robotics as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> I'm sure everyone remembers the Justin Keller blog post. Never heard of it. Is it https://justink.svbtle.com/open-letter-to-mayor-ed-lee-and-g... ?
Comment linking /open-letter-to-mayor-ed-lee-and-greg-suhr-police-chief
on “Growing homeless camps contrast with West Coast tech wealth”Submitted Leveraging capital in the stock market using Robinhood Gold as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttp://justink.svbtle.com/open-letter-to-mayor-ed-lee-and-gr... I think this would be a better link than the OP as the OP is an interpretation of the original work. While its clearly a shitty blog post, it seems like his concern is largely stemming from the number of altercations he personally experienced and the Guardian is interpreting it much harsher than is truly necessary. Shitty blog posts happen but private b…
Comment linking /open-letter-to-mayor-ed-lee-and-greg-suhr-police-chief
on “San Francisco tech worker: 'I don't want to see homeless riff-raff'”Submitted Leveraging capital in the stock market using Robinhood Gold as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI would love to do a sportsbook startup, take it legit. If only the US would change its antiquated laws, it could revolutionize the industry and prevent the rampant fraud and shady business practices of current international online sportsbooks. I wrote a blog post on this topic as well: Online sportsbooks... A security and fraud nightmare. http://justink.svbtle.com/online-sports-books-a-security-nig...
Comment linking /online-sports-books-a-security-nightmare
on “L.A. Dodgers Accelerator”Submitted Leveraging capital in the stock market using Robinhood Gold as a story · 1 points
HN discussionPreviously: https://justink.svbtle.com/open-letter-to-mayor-ed-lee-and-g... Justin Svbtle caught a lot of flak for the insensitive tone of his open letter back when he wrote it, but he was rightfully pissed off at the time, and it seems the problem has only gotten worse. How is it possible that there aren't enough resources to take care of everyone in a city that generates so much wealth?
Comment linking /open-letter-to-mayor-ed-lee-and-greg-suhr-police-chief
on “SF tourists: "I will never step foot in San Francisco again"”Submitted Leveraging capital in the stock market using Robinhood Gold as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI stutter, sometimes really bad. I've written about it at https://justink.svbtle.com/being-a-founder-with-a-speech-imp... . I'm a single and multiple startup founder. When I was trying to raise capital for one of my companies it was certainly an impediment and felt like I squandered multiple meetings (investors, VC's, business opportunities) sometimes only getting a few complete sentences out. Phone and virtual meet…
Comment linking /being-a-founder-with-a-speech-impediment
on “Ask HN: Does anyone here suffer from a speech impediment?”Submitted Case-insensitivity with OS X using git as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHow is it outrage manipulation clickbait? It's exactly what he said, and my first perception of it was exactly what he meant. I would agree with you if he said this and then further explained what you did: "you shouldn't have to be accosted by homeless people because the social safety net should work..." Rather, he confirmed what we all suspected to be the attitude held by the uglier half of the tech community. It s…
Comment linking /open-letter-to-mayor-ed-lee-and-greg-suhr-police-chief
on a deleted threadSubmitted Online sportsbooks; a security and fraud nightmare as a story · 1 points
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