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Mark Bernstein's personal blog at markbernstein.org covers programming and writing. Since 2007, 27 different Hacker News readers have linked it 39 times, most often “NeoVictorian Computing”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.

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39mentions?
27HN people?
2007–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Mark Bernstein's posts on blogging history, hypertext and 'As We May Think', Wikipedia criticism, and his StorySpace rewrite, mostly as sources or pointers.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Home page of Mark Bernstein, chief scientist of Eastgate Systems.

Most-linked posts?

  1. NeoVictorian Computing
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-06-17
  2. NeoVictorian Computing
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-07-04
  3. Neo-Victorian Computing
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-11-13
  4. The draft decision of Wikipedia’s ArbCom on Gamergate is worse than a crime
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-01-21

What Hacker News says?

  1. keithpeter · 2011-10-31
    A couple of sources on the history of blogging. Bernstein's reminiscences of the personalities show that little changes... http://tawawa.org/ark/p/jorn-barger-community.html http://www.markbernstein.org/Jul09/Flames.html

    Comment linking /Jul09/Flames.html

    on “Dave Winer: Why I stand up for Stallman”
  2. jarcane · 2015-01-25

    Submitted “I don’t think Wikipedia can be saved at this point, but I might be wrong.” as a story · 54 points

    HN discussion
  3. keithpeter · 2012-04-04
    Mark Bernstein is recoding a program called StorySpace which dates from 1980s?. He is blogging about it. Day 6 will give a flavour http://www.markbernstein.org/Mar12/Day6.html He is working on a familiar design, and knows the old code. He is recoding in newer tools.

    Comment linking /Mar12/Day6.html

    on “I'm Sure It Will Only Take You A Few Days To Code”
  4. chrbutler · 2013-06-05

    Submitted Wikipedia’s Emergency as a story · 47 points

    HN discussion
  5. tptacek · 2009-01-10
    They're second-class outlets. A blog author can say whatever they want; their posts are first-class elements in Google's corpus; the medium encourages stand-alone writing instead of meaningless squibs. The original vision of the "blogosphere" rejected comments. "Write a blog post, instead." Here's an old, well-known example: http://www.markbernstein.org/Apr0401/Whyblogcommentsarebad.h... The problem right now is tha…

    Comment linking /Apr0401/Whyblogcommentsarebad.html

    on “Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.”
  6. blasdel · 2009-09-14

    Submitted Why CEOs are so stupid as a story · 44 points

    HN discussion
  7. blasdel · 2010-08-01
    When people write papers about New Media and The Web, they often cite Vannevar Bush's 1945 article in The Atlantic, “As We May Think”. We had a 65th anniversary panel about the paper at Hypertext 2010, at which I was the designated heretic. My position is that Bush’s paper is essentially a popular science article. It gets some things right, some wrong. It’s cavalier about its sources – especially the very important…

    Comment linking /Jul10/ALogicNamedJoe.html

    on “As We May Think (1945)”
  8. blasdel · 2010-11-05

    Submitted Javascript: is 'this' a code smell? as a story · 27 points

    HN discussion
  9. mdisraeli · 2015-01-25
    It should be noted that the link is to a supplemental, providing running updates on the response to Mark's series of articles: Infamous http://markbernstein.org/Jan15/Infamous.html Thoughtless http://markbernstein.org/Jan15/Thoughtless.html Careless http://markbernstein.org/Jan15/Careless.html As such, it will be hard to read, appearing like a rant when taken on its own. A better place to start will be with the abov…

    Comment linking /Jan15/Careless.html

    on ““I don’t think Wikipedia can be saved at this point, but I might be wrong.””
  10. blasdel · 2009-09-18

    Submitted Dumb Software Isn’t Dumb as a story · 27 points

    HN discussion
  11. stfu · 2013-06-05
    The idea of an unbiased article is in my opinion just an illusion. In reality truth is a negotiation between different stakeholders and some form of settlement at the end where each side can somehow get away with. I personally find the next posting of the author much more revealing [1]. It is a discussion on how much meaning one can find in a simple sentence such as "____ is a Jewish-American politician" all the way…

    Comment linking /May13/WikipediaAndTheJews.html

    on “Wikipedia’s Emergency”
  12. blasdel · 2010-01-27

    Submitted The gas-powered truck killed magazines, not the Web as a story · 24 points

    HN discussion
  13. keithpeter · 2012-09-02
    http://www.markbernstein.org/Mar12/TheSympathyOfThings.html Lars Spuybroek's book The Sympathy of Things explores possible links between Ruskin's views and modern digital production. I'm finding it hard reading (maths science background myself) but it is making me think in new areas.

    Comment linking /Mar12/TheSympathyOfThings.html

    on “The Soul of a Typeface”
  14. michaeljbishop · 2015-01-21

    Submitted The draft decision of Wikipedia’s ArbCom on Gamergate is worse than a crime as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  15. AlanYx · 2023-12-11
    Mark Bernstein has written a bit about this. He used to call it "neovictorian computing" but now uses the same "artisanal software" term, e.g.: https://www.markbernstein.org/NeoVictorian.html

    Comment linking /NeoVictorian.html

    on “On Limited Editions (1998)”
  16. tortilla · 2010-05-01

    Submitted Platform Control as a story · 5 points

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  17. meatpeople · 2008-03-13

    Submitted Neo-Victorian Computing as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  18. cedricr · 2016-06-08

    Submitted Reprehensible as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  19. curtis · 2013-02-01

    Submitted How Software Is Built Today as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  20. blasdel · 2009-12-28

    Submitted Recipe for How To Lose To Terrorists as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  21. cgtyoder · 2015-01-22

    Submitted Careless as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  22. llambda · 2012-11-10

    Submitted NeoVictorian Computing as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  23. hermitcrab · 2025-12-26

    Submitted The golden age of Indie software as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  24. Arnt · 2021-09-21

    Submitted “Art, Kitsch, and the Totalitarian Gamer” as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  25. jarcane · 2015-01-24

    Submitted Infamous - How a hate group manipulated Wikipedia policy to silence critics as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  26. jseliger · 2013-11-17

    Submitted Shadows: a software allegory as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  27. asolove · 2013-11-01

    Submitted NeoVictorian Computing as a story · 2 points

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  28. batista · 2012-06-17

    Submitted Neo-Victorian computing (2007) as a story · 2 points

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  29. blasdel · 2010-04-22

    Submitted Unreasonable: we’ve got to do something about the users as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  30. bootload · 2007-11-13

    Submitted NeoVictorian Computing as a story · 2 points

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