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Manas Tungare
Personal blog · manas.tungare.name/blogprogrammingculture
Manas Tungare's personal blog at manas.tungare.name covers programming and culture. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on Neal Stephenson's essay "Innovation Starvation". One commenter cites Ian Malcolm's Jurassic Park lines on scientific power to dispute Stephenson's point. The comment does not judge the blog itself.
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.
Software Engineer @ Google • UberTL for Gmail Productivity • Ph.D. Computer Science • Love to code @chimbori.com.
What Hacker News says?
It's debatable whether Jurassic Park is "great scifi" but Ian Malcolm says: "You know what’s wrong with scientific power? It’s a form of inherited wealth. There is no humility before nature. And because you can stand on the shoulders of giants, you can accomplish something quickly." - that's in the book, not the movie! I think what Neal Stephenson laments is not that we can't innovate, but that we haven't achieved o…
Comment linking /blog/jurassic-park-what-the-movie-left-out/
on “Neal Stephenson: Innovation Starvation”Submitted Can Security Questions be Subliminally Discriminatory? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vibe Coding for Engineers: The Good Parts as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted If you have an Android, you have … - Manas Tungare as a story · 1 points
HN discussion