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Marc Grabanski

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Marc Grabanski writes MarcGrabanski.com: Web Development & Business, a personal blog at marcgrabanski.com about startups, programming and career. Since 2008, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Entrepreneurs are Dead, Long Live the Hacker”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-03, and you can follow it by feed.

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13mentions?
11HN people?
2008–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2009

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Marc Grabanski's posts on building a career around free content and on hacker entrepreneurship. The linked comments are bare links or remarks about his past blog traffic, not about the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Entrepreneurs are Dead, Long Live the Hacker
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-05-24

What Hacker News says?

  1. http://marcgrabanski.com/articles/long-live-the-hacker-entre...

    Comment linking /articles/long-live-the-hacker-entrepreneurs

    on “Ask HN: What approach would you take in my situation?”
  2. Submitted If Facebook Threatens the Web, then WordPress Saved the Web as a story · 38 points

    HN discussion
  3. Oops...missed 30 days... http://marcgrabanski.com/grab/40fa28.png

    Comment linking /grab/40fa28.png

    on “What I learned building a career driven by “everything should be free” (2013)”
  4. Submitted 5 Tips for Better jQuery Code as a story · 33 points

    HN discussion
  5. I killed my blog and stopped writing around 2008 and it peaked at near a few million page views in 2010. See: http://marcgrabanski.com/grab/3c8cd1.png -- this is just web traffic. Not email subscribers or RSS readers. Thanks for stopping by to question my authenticity!

    Comment linking /grab/3c8cd1.png

    on “What I learned building a career driven by “everything should be free” (2013)”
  6. Submitted Cheap User Testing with Amazon Mechanical Turk as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted HTML5 Needs a New Animation API to Compete with Native as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Personal Health Checklist as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Entrepreneurs are Dead, Long Live the Hacker as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Advice for Consultants and Startups – Marc Grabanski as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted JQuery Tools vs jQuery UI as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted "Why Are All These Idiots More Successful Than Me?" as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Twitter's role in communication as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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