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Mateusz Fafinski

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Mateusz Fafinski writes History in translation, a personal blog at mfafinski.github.io about history and writing. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “The Strange and Terrifying Case of the Turboslav Empire”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2019–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2019

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers linked one page, the Turboslavs site, as a joke in a thread about a Polish general who may have been female. The comment is a 'TIL' quip, and the comments say nothing about the writing 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.

Mateusz Fafinski

Most-linked posts?

  1. The Strange and Terrifying Case of the Turboslav Empire
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-04-07

What Hacker News says?

  1. TIL: https://mfafinski.github.io/Turboslavs/ We wuz, etc

    Comment linking /Turboslavs/

    on “Polish general who fought with Washington may have been female”
  2. Submitted The Strange and Terrifying Case of the Turboslav Empire as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Historical Data. A Portrait as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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