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Karl Fogel
Personal blog · rants.orgprogrammingpolitics
Karl Fogel's personal blog at rants.org covers programming and politics. Since 2007, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Bug Growth is Proportional to User Growth, and Bugs are not Technical Debt”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Karl Fogel's rants.org posts on copyright, open source licensing, the PRISM naming in Guardian coverage, and Google's Web Environment Integrity proposal. Comments cite them as support for their own points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /2013/06/11/epic_botch_of_prism_story/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-06-13
- Bug Growth is Proportional to User Growth, and Bugs are not Technical Debt2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-02-03
- In-depth analysis and context regarding SFLC / Conservancy trademark dispute2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-11-09
What Hacker News says?
Why am I the one who needs to reserve judgement? I'm not the one saying things like "the name PRISM suggests optical intercepts on backbones", or "the name Palantir suggests that that company is acting as an all-seeing eye for NSA". I'm not the only person with these concerns. Here's Karl Fogel of QuestionCopyright.org: http://www.rants.org/2013/06/11/epic_botch_of_prism_story/ And here's Mark Jaquith of Wordpress:…
Comment linking /2013/06/11/epic_botch_of_prism_story/
on “The Guardian walks back claims of direct NSA access to servers of tech companies”Submitted Why OccupyGPL is wrong as a story · 77 points
HN discussionThe Bob Cesca item this mediaite post is building on makes the case that Greenwald saw what he wanted to see: I’m going to put it all out there and let the chips fall where they may: I’m increasingly convinced that Glenn Greenwald’s reporting on the NSA story is tainted by his well-known agenda, leading him to make broad claims for the purposes of inciting outrage. http://thedailybanter.com/2013/06/greenwald-sticks-…
Comment linking /2013/06/11/epic_botch_of_prism_story/
on “The Guardian walks back claims of direct NSA access to servers of tech companies”Submitted Why not to sign the anti-Stallman petition on GitHub as a story · 65 points
HN discussionHis comment system is currently broken and will just 404 and return you to a URL at https://rants.org/%5Ehttp:/your.ip.addy.here/ . So I guess I might as well post here instead, >My web browser (currently Mozilla Firefox running on Debian GNU/Linux, thank you very much) will never cooperate with this bizarre and misguided proposal. Mozilla used to be about user freedoms. Lately Mozilla has been a front-runner on tur…
Comment linking /%5Ehttp:/your.ip.addy.here/
on “The Right to Lie and Google’s “Web Environment Integrity””Submitted The Right to Lie and Google’s “Web Environment Integrity” as a story · 15 points
HN discussionWe've considered this license, but according to this blog post http://www.rants.org/2007/06/26/when-is-open-source-not-open... it is not true open source license.
Comment linking /2007/06/26/when-is-open-source-not-open-source/
on “Ask HN:Choosing the right open source license for SaaS software”Submitted New York State Senate bill offers tax credit for open source dev expenses as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bug Growth is Proportional to User Growth, and Bugs are not Technical Debt. as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bug Growth is Proportional to User Growth, and Bugs are not Technical Debt as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thread Theory (2008) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Not to Release Software as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wikipudiate? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What You Need to Know About the Conservancy / SFLC Dustup as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted In-depth analysis and context regarding SFLC / Conservancy trademark dispute as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How easy is a Morozov-style takedown of Evgeny Morozov? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Yo, App Developers: Please Make Your Public Interest Apps Open Source as a story · 1 points
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