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Louis Gray
Personal blog · louisgray.com/livestartupsculture
Louis Gray's personal blog at louisgray.com covers startups and culture. Since 2008, 33 different Hacker News readers have linked it 48 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Louis Gray's posts as background or sources on FriendFeed, Lisp, Mac OS X security and social web tools, and as write-ups of other projects.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A Silicon Valley early adopter tech geek blog, written by Googler Louis Gray.
What Hacker News says?
Ouch. A tad naive. http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2006/02/maco... http://louisgray.com/live/2008/08/i-got-mac-os-x-virus-and-i... Just 2 from a quick google search: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=mac+os+x+virus
Comment linking /live/2008/08/i-got-mac-os-x-virus-and-infected.html
on “Fully patched OSX hacked within seconds of start of pen test contest”Submitted As I Get Older, Some Online "Friending" Gets Creepier as a story · 28 points
HN discussionActually, the small and unthreatening alien went to Python. However, you're right about Lisp being different, and avoiding notice. However, that might be changing. A-list blogger Robert Scoble took notice of Scheme-based http://ourdoings.com/ and has been using it: http://friendfeed.com/scobleizer?service=feed&serviceid=... And it got a glowing review by Mike Fruchter: http://www.louisgray.com/live/2009/01/our-doing…
Comment linking /live/2009/01/our-doings-you-upload-moment-they.html
on “Lisp is a Chameleon”Submitted iPhone Call Recording: It Makes Too Much Sense Not to Do as a story · 17 points
HN discussionA big reason my site got this nice writeup is because of the "review my stuff" posts here: http://www.louisgray.com/live/2009/01/our-doings-you-upload-... Can you believe the site they describe is the same one people tore apart here two years ago?
Comment linking /live/2009/01/our-doings-you-upload-moment-they.html
on “Ask HN: What do you think of self-promotion on HN?”Submitted Why Disqus Is Winning the Web Comment Battles, and What's Next as a story · 13 points
HN discussionI've got some innovation going at http://www.nestedguis.com . (update: previous link was wrong) Louis Gray blogged about it.. http://www.louisgray.com/live/2008/09/will-future-informatio...
Comment linking /live/2008/09/will-future-information-consumption-be.html
on “Website of the future: what does it look like?”Submitted As FeedBurner Flails and Fails, Feedblitz Fights as a story · 12 points
HN discussionAlso see http://www.inquisitr.com/7625/friendfeed-gains-im-support/ http://www.louisgray.com/live/2008/11/friendfeed-launches-in... http://www.costpernews.com/archives/friendfeed-via-im-twitte...
Comment linking /live/2008/11/friendfeed-launches-instant-messaging.html
on “Instant FriendFeed - Notifications and Posting over IM”Submitted The Five Stages Of Early Adopter Behavior as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Developers Are People Too, Don't Forget as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted YooPlace Ranks Popular Twitter Items With Replies, Mirroring Hacker News as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Importance Of Blog Linking Seems to Be Declining as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted On the Web, If You're Not Growing, You're Dying as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted 25 Different Uses For FriendFeed as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted As Twitter Regains Footing, Competitors' Growth Stalls as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted TechCrunch misses the point of FriendFeed as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bret Taylor on FriendFeed's Road to Monetization, Early Surprises as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Could universal device operation be the next killer app? as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Louisgray.com: What's Your Twitter Noise Ratio? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Every Time I Try To Embrace Twitter, They Push Us Away as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Think Apple Would Dare To Take On the Movie Theaters? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Most Bloggers Don't Deserve Any Ad Revenue as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should Fractured Feed Reader Comments Raise Blog Owners' Ire? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google Alerts go real-time with pubsubhubbub as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted 419 Scammers Set Up Roost on Facebook as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted What FriendFeed Needs to Do To Grow and Keep New Users as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Twitter Chokes Unauthenticated API Requests By IP, Sites Gasp for Air as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Disqus' Downtime Reminds Us of Woes for Data In the Cloud as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Techfuga-if-techmeme-and-alltop-had a baby as a story · 3 points
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