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Major Hayden

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Major Hayden writes major_hayden(1), a personal blog at majorhayden.com about systems and programming. Since 2013, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Resume (CV) as a man page – Major Hayden”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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6mentions?
5HN people?
2013–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2021

Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Major Hayden's blog for his post on the future of the Icanhazip IP-address service and for his résumé written as a man page. One commenter says the site shows what kind of person he is.

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?

  1. Resume (CV) as a man page – Major Hayden
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-06-06

What Hacker News says?

  1. Truly selfless service. It cost him many thousands in money and tens of thousands in time. And : "If you’re curious, Cloudflare did pay me for the site. We made a deal for them to pay me $8.03; the cost of the domain registration. The goal was never to make money from the site (although I did get about $75 in total donations from 2009 to 2021). The goal was to provide a service to the internet. Cloudflare has helped…

    Comment linking /

    on “A New Future for Icanhazip”
  2. Submitted Resume (CV) as a man page – Major Hayden as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. mjcarden · 2021-06-06Recommends
    He hasn't updated this for a while, but it gives you a good picture of the kind of guy Major is: https://majorhayden.com/

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    on “A New Future for Icanhazip”
  4. Submitted Manpage like resume as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Reminds me of Major Hayden's man page résumé[0] [0] http://majorhayden.com

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    on “Resume in C”
  6. I TOTALLY thought this was going to be an article about Major Hayden's resume: Resume as a man page: https://majorhayden.com/

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    on “The greatest resume I've ever seen”

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