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Kay Rhodes
Personal blog · weblog.masukomi.orgprogrammingwriting
Kay Rhodes's personal blog at weblog.masukomi.org covers programming and writing. Since 2007, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 33 times, most often “Zed Shaw's Utu: Saving the internet with hate · weblog.masukomi.org”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Kay Rhodes's 2018 post on Zed Shaw's Utu idea, a reputation system using proof-of-work to deter bad actors, and a 2008 post on hosting public git repositories. Links are cited as background, not judged.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Autistic, ADHD, Geek. The weblog of Kay Rhodes (masukomi).
Most-linked posts?
- Zed Shaw's Utu: Saving the internet with hate · weblog.masukomi.org5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2018-08-27
- Do Social Networks Need Companies?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-12-22
What Hacker News says?
Hah still remember the old “solving the internet with hate” idea from Zed Shaw in the glory days of Ruby on Rails. https://weblog.masukomi.org/2018/03/25/zed-shaws-utu-saving-... I do believe we will end there eventually, with the emerging tech like Brazil’s and India’s payment architectures it should be a possibility in the coming decades
Comment linking /2018/03/25/zed-shaws-utu-saving-the-internet-with-hate/
on “Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives”Submitted Do not register a domain name with your hosting provider as a story · 91 points
HN discussionThis reminds me of Zed Shaw's Utu protocol from back in the day: https://weblog.masukomi.org/2018/03/25/zed-shaws-utu-saving-... I am not a crypto guy, but my understanding is that users can downvote each other, and the more downvotes a user gets the harder the proof-of-work problem they had to solve before they post. If you received enough hate, your CPU would spike for a couple of minutes each time you tried to po…
Comment linking /2018/03/25/zed-shaws-utu-saving-the-internet-with-hate/
on “OpenSSH introduces options to penalize undesirable behavior”Submitted Appcelerator: extortion is just part of the job as a story · 70 points
HN discussionI wrote a blog post[1] breaking down tools to record terminal sessions just a couple weeks ago. I wasn't aware of this particular one but it looks like it's going to have issues with recording anything that requires user input. My post describes how to make high quality recordings of terminal sessions that can be replayed in the terminal, or shared on the web. I'm defining high quality as recordings with zero typos,…
Comment linking /2022/10/11/recording_and_sharing_terminal_sessions/
on “VHS: CLI home video recorder”Submitted Why I won’t touch the Kindle 2 with a ten foot pole. as a story · 43 points
HN discussionI wrote a rebuttal to this: https://weblog.masukomi.org/2022/11/14/a-rebuttal-to-scaling... The short short version is that it scales just fine if you use it the way its intended. The protocol provably scales just fine (contrary to his claim), the real problem with scaling is that it violates the core idea that Fediverse server apps (all of them) are written with the idea of serving a community, not hosting the next…
Comment linking /2022/11/14/a-rebuttal-to-scaling-mastodon-is-impossible/
on “Scaling Mastodon is impossible”Submitted Why your tiered password scheme is flawed, and what to do about it. as a story · 33 points
HN discussionHmm the now old post by Zed Shaw from the dawn of ruby on rails era - “saving the internet with hate” comes to mind. https://weblog.masukomi.org/2018/03/25/zed-shaws-utu-saving-... Basically baking in a reputation system into network protocols, to deter bad actors… not sure how viable a solution it is, just fun to think how far back people were thinking about solutions to these problems.
Comment linking /2018/03/25/zed-shaws-utu-saving-the-internet-with-hate/
on “The young people sifting through the internet's worst horrors”Submitted Why you should wear a bow tie. as a story · 12 points
HN discussionThis is so very wrong.... > tabs are bad, because if you let people choose their own tab widths then it becomes impossible to align anything anymore. In what world is that true. If you indent your code with tabs, and I indent your code with tabs and I show my tabs as 4 chars wide and you show yours and 8 EVERYTHING IS STILL ALIGNED. It's just greater or lesser levels of indentation. You only have problems when you M…
Comment linking /2010/07/26/why-you-should-never-indent-code-with-spaces/
on “Swift Style Guide by GitHub”Submitted The hypocrisy of Amazon as a story · 12 points
HN discussionyes. these background check companies suck. I almost didn't get a job because the company doing the background check couldn't be bothered to get off their ass and deal with a company that went bust in the dot com crash. They just said i was lying rather than actually taking the time to do research and see that the company didn't exist anymore for a good reason. I documented my BS experience here http://weblog.masuko…
Comment linking /2007/06/22/the-trials-and-tribulations-of-employment-verification/
on “Ask HN: Should I provide salary history after an accepted offer?”Submitted Life: An Instructional Flow Chart as a story · 11 points
HN discussioni was recently looking for a good html to pdf solution and found wkhtmltopdf and weasyprint results to be... poor at best. turns out, you can do it on the command line via a call to Google Chrome and the results are great. Details here: https://weblog.masukomi.org/2018/05/25/html-to-pdf-on-the-co...
Comment linking /2018/05/25/html-to-pdf-on-the-command-line/
on “Wkhtmltopdf Considered Harmful”Submitted Do Social Networks Need Companies? as a story · 10 points
HN discussionThis reminds me a bit of the basic concepts behind Zed Shaw's Utu idea https://weblog.masukomi.org/2018/03/25/zed-shaws-utu-saving-... https://savingtheinternetwithhate.com/ DEFCON presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziTMh8ApMY4
Comment linking /2018/03/25/zed-shaws-utu-saving-the-internet-with-hate/
on “Vouch”Submitted Zed Shaw's Utu: Saving the internet with hate · weblog.masukomi.org as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSince they make a repo mirror every time they pull, why don't they have a backup? Do their developers never communicate with each other? (Why are they using github as their build repo?!) > Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that git makes hosting your own public repository absurdly complicated ( http://weblog.masukomi.org/2008/03/11/sharing-a-public-git-r... ) compared to other tools ( http://weblog.masuko…
Comment linking /2008/03/11/sharing-a-public-darcs-repo-over-http-flow-chart
on “You keep using that word “distributed”…”Submitted Backup Brain - self-hosted Bookmarks manager as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMacDown. Stay away from Mou. Very sketchy author. He did an Indiegogo campaign after essentially abandoning the project and failing to sell it and hasn't updated in 6 months after taking $25,000 from backers[0][1][2][3] He also raised the price of the product because "There're too many pre-orders. We decide to raise price to reduce the sale."[4] [0] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/mou-1-0-markdown-editor-o... [1]…
Comment linking /2014/10/09/why-i-wont-be-backing-mous-crowdfunding-campaign
on “Ask HN: Best Markdown editor for OS X?”Submitted Go will never belong to the community until they decide its future as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do Social Networks Need Companies? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Turning down Apple as a story · 2 points
HN discussion- zh · 2008-03-11
Submitted Sharing a public Git repo over HTTP [flow chart] as a story · 2 points
HN discussion Submitted Distributed Bug Tracking as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted You really don't want to "become" a programmer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I used AI to generate products and write copy for my store as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Utu: Saving the internet with hate(2007/2018) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Being a Manager as a story · 1 points
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