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Manu Cornet
Personal blog · ma.nu/blogculturecareer
Manu Cornet writes manu, a personal blog at ma.nu about culture and career. Since 2022, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Bye Twitter – Manu Cornet”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link these posts about Manu Cornet's exit from Twitter: a cartoon he gave Musk, his termination, and a related earlier post, "Not Going Anywhere". Comments cite them as context.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Manu Cornet's personal website.
Most-linked posts?
- Bye Twitter – Manu Cornet5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-11-03
- /blog/not-going-anywhere2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-04
What Hacker News says?
If only software devs had setup a union or something. No, we're too privileged to be fired: https://ma.nu/blog/not-going-anywhere Oops: https://ma.nu/blog/bye-twitter
Comment linking /blog/bye-twitter
on “Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work”Submitted Bye Twitter – Manu Cornet as a story · 231 points
HN discussionIronic that Manu's immediately previous blog post from 2022.04.27 is titled "Not Going Anywhere" ( https://ma.nu/blog/not-going-anywhere ).
Comment linking /blog/not-going-anywhere
on “Bye Twitter – Manu Cornet”Submitted From Google to Twitter as a story · 122 points
HN discussionBased on the note he posted from HR he was fired for cause and wasn’t “laid off” by the usual definition of same — he was told by HR that he had violated several company policies and his employment was being terminated immediately. [1] https://ma.nu/blog/img/2022-11-01_bye_twitter/termination_em...
Comment linking /blog/img/2022-11-01_bye_twitter/termination_email.png
on “From Google to Twitter”Submitted A short stint at DUKUMU – Manu Cornet as a story · 1 points
HN discussionUnrelated to the posted link but relevant since it involves the author. Author is one of the few who was terminated early Nov. [0] and now is part of lawsuit against Twitter for mass firing.[1][2] [0]. https://ma.nu/blog/bye-twitter [1]. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.40... [2]. https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/4/23440304/twitter-mass-fir...
Comment linking /blog/bye-twitter
on “From Google to Twitter”And in between the original post and your post is this post: https://ma.nu/blog/not-going-anywhere Which is just kind of funny
Comment linking /blog/not-going-anywhere
on “From Google to Twitter”That post was from March 2022. The author has since been laid off: https://ma.nu/blog/bye-twitter
Comment linking /blog/bye-twitter
on “From Google to Twitter”Well, he bought it anyway. For context: https://ma.nu/blog/bye-twitter > In Oct 2022, as Elon Musk was visiting the San Francisco office, I made a printed version of this cartoon with a short inscription and handed it to him: https://ma.nu/blog/img/2022-11-01_bye_twitter/elon_note.jpg > (He took the print and said “Well, I bought it anyway”, replying to the line in the cartoon).
Comment linking /blog/bye-twitter
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