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Lukas Hermann

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Lukas Hermann's personal blog at lukashermann.dev covers startups and programming. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Why the iPhone Timer app displays a fake time”. It has a working feed you can follow.

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5mentions?
4HN people?
2020–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2020

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Why HN links it

The one HN comment links the post on why the iPhone timer display works as it does and compares it to Apple's stopwatch. It is cited as a related example in a thread about lying to users about signal strength.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

I bootstrap a profitable business and tweet about it. Building great products is something I love doing.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Why the iPhone Timer app displays a fake time
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-28

What Hacker News says?

  1. I wonder if it’s more intuitive that way. Like what Apple does with stopwatch. https://lukashermann.dev/writing/why-the-iphone-timer-displa...

    Comment linking /writing/why-the-iphone-timer-displays-fake-time/

    on “Simple trick to increase coverage: Lying to users about signal strength”
  2. Submitted Why the iPhone Timer app displays a fake time as a story · 223 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Bootstrapping a SaaS Business in Germany: How I did it as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted I asked GTP-3 to write of my Product Hunt launch, in noir-style as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Why the iPhone Timer App Displays a Fake Time? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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