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Leonard Lin
Personal blog · randomfoo.net · on HN as lhlprogrammingweb
Leonard Lin writes random($foo), a personal blog at randomfoo.net about programming and web. Since 2008, 23 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “Lessig copyright speech from 2002 -- SOPA is just another step”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Leonard Lin's randomfoo.net mainly for Lawrence Lessig's 2002 OSCON 'Free Culture' slide talk, admired for its slide style, plus older posts on distributed databases and Forum2000.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Leonard Lin's personal weblog.
Most-linked posts?
- Lessig copyright speech from 2002 -- SOPA is just another step4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2010-06-26
- Rearchitecting Twitter: Brought to You By the 17th Letter of the Alphabet2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-06-01
- Some Notes on Distributed Key Stores2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-04-21
What Hacker News says?
Here's my first day thoughts: http://randomfoo.net/2014/10/30/microsoft-band-overviewrevie...
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on “Microsoft Band”Submitted Obama's Speech at Woodrow Wilson Center (2007) as a story · 43 points
HN discussionLawrence Lessig's 'free culture' from OSCON 2002:- https://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/ Anything at all by Richard Feynman:- https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22richard+feynman%22&tbm=...
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on “Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?”Submitted Some Notes on Distributed Key Stores as a story · 30 points
HN discussionI've gone through several thousand papers the past year or two so I feel like I'm more well-versed in nutrition than most nutritionists/dieticians at this point, certainly in my understanding the recent clinical/research literature. I rarely post any nutritional/health related statements without citations to peer-reviewed work (see: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=lhl ) I think most people don't publish labs…
Comment linking /2019/09/17/1-year-personal-health-intervention-summary
on “Study: Low Carb Diet May Prevent, Reverse Age-Related Effects Within the Brain”- mk · 2008-04-25
Submitted Random($foo): Internet Asshattery, Armchair Scaling Experts Edition as a story · 18 points
HN discussion Here's a pretty comprehensive review I wrote on it a few months back: https://randomfoo.net/2019/12/25/motile-m142-cheapo-linux-la... It's surprisingly good as a cheap laptop, but as a daily driver, I'd just wait a month or so and get a 4000U thin and light at this point.
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on “Ryzen 4000 Review”Submitted Web 2.0 Expo Presentation Rundown as a story · 4 points
HN discussionNice resurrection of Forum2000! Props. http://randomfoo.net/junk/200402/xalton.forum2000.org/matrix... http://slashdot.org/story/00/08/13/0213225/end-of-an-era-for...
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on “Show HN: BrainTripping - language model comedy”Submitted Thoughts on the current state of Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI definitely support the author's message: have a point, use pictures, prepare. My style is derived from Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture (Flash, but legendary: https://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/free.html ) and Edward Tufte (with whom I was fortunate enough to work for one summer).
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on “Stand Out as a Speaker”Submitted Lessig copyright speech from 2002 -- SOPA is just another step as a story · 3 points
HN discussion"Lawrence Lessig’s Free Culture talk at the 2002 Open Source Conference. The master of the simple slides shows us how it’s done. And since, as he says, this is his 100th time for this talk, he has this bad boy down solid. Even though this talk is from 2002, his slide presentation style is still as fresh today as Axe Body Spray."[1] http://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/free.html [1] http://www.knowhr.com/blog/2006/…
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on “'The Social Network': reviewed by Lawrence Lessig”Submitted MasterCard SecureCode and securesuite.net as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI see you are in Britain, where copyright originally developed. As I recall, the history was a couple of publishers trying to bloody each other (1). It had nothing to do with whether a merchant wanted to transcribe copies of Hamlet to share with friends practising for the local theatre production 50 years after Shakespeare's death. The principle profits had already been wrung out. In the US, the copyright exists To…
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on “Pirate Bay Moves to The Cloud, Becomes Raid-Proof”Submitted Infrastructure for Modern Web Sites (Leonard Lin) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMost of the slides are blank, single sentences, or changes in highlighting. I'm sure they were flipping through them pretty quickly and just using slides to give certain phrases extra punch. See also: Lawrence Lessig's presentation on Free Culture ( http://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/free.html ) That's probably 1000 slides, but they are used expertly to deliver a clear, concise message.
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on “Always ship trunk: Managing change in complex websites ”Submitted On Nutrition and Metabolism as a story · 1 points
HN discussionJust because its so cool, Lessig's OSCON speech on copyright: http://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/ Favorite quote (paraphrased) "Disney didn't want others to do to them what they did to the Brothers Grimm."
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on “Copyright Time Bomb Set to Disrupt Music, Publishing Industries”Submitted Infrastructure for Modern Web Sites (2009) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYou have some catching up to do... :) They are not at all concerned about normal form or joins - it's just not that kind of a database. Here are some good blog posts that elaborate on the current non-RDBMS fad: http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2009/02/is-the-relati... http://www.metabrew.com/article/anti-rdbms-a-list-of-distrib... http://randomfoo.net/2009/04/20/some-notes-on-distributed-ke... http://bcbio.wor…
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on “WTF is a SuperColumn? An Intro to the Cassandra Data Model”Submitted Palm Pre: Two Months In as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHere's an interesting proposed architecture that involves ditching MySQL: http://randomfoo.net/blog/id/4182
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on “Twitter responds to Techcrunch about its scaling issues ”Submitted Internet Asshattery, Armchair Scaling Experts Edition as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSame. Additionally the last time I saw Verified by Visa the domain it used was registered to some rando's apartment in NYC. Super sketchy. Edit: this is what I'm talking about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3962944 and https://randomfoo.net/2011/06/22/mastercard-securecode-and-s... Looks like I misremembered the details. Still, super sketchy.
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on “Ask HN: 2FA for Credit Cards?”Submitted Rearchitecting Twitter: Brought to You By the 17th Letter of the Alphabet as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI dunno, I gave up on Wirecutter for anything I actually cared about almost 10 years ago - I found that for anything that I had actually done even basic research on, the Wirecutter was always wrong (and not just like sort of wrong, but like completely missing the point/out to lunch wrong): https://randomfoo.net/2014/03/22/the-wirecutter-is-always-wr...
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on “What Happened to Wirecutter?”I actually have a different take on what the "basic" problem is, having done a fair amount of research (reading a lot of biomed research & studies over the past few years) and personally effecting (and more or less maintaining) a huge improvement in my own metabolic health. [1] To me, it seems obvious that sustaining a low calorie diet (LCD) long-term is basically impossible (from a maximal fat oxidation and, even a…
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on “South Asian people undergo type 2 diabetes remission with low calorie diets”
