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Mathias Klang
Personal blog · klangable.com/blogculturewriting
Mathias Klang writes writing notes, a personal blog at klangable.com about culture and writing. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this post to trace the origin of the quote "Quantity has a quality all its own," which one says is often misattributed to Stalin and was actually said by Thomas A. Callaghan Jr.
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.
Mathias Klang
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/quantity-has-a-quality-all-its-own/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-11-14
What Hacker News says?
This is a quote by Thomas A. Callaghan Jr, but is often mis-atrributed to Stalin. https://klangable.com/blog/quantity-has-a-quality-all-its-ow...
Comment linking /blog/quantity-has-a-quality-all-its-own/
on “Starship will attempt a launch this weekend”Apparently a misattribution. According to this https://klangable.com/blog/quantity-has-a-quality-all-its-ow... It was not Stalin who said that
Comment linking /blog/quantity-has-a-quality-all-its-own/
on “Starship will attempt a launch this weekend”Not Stalin: https://klangable.com/blog/quantity-has-a-quality-all-its-ow...
Comment linking /blog/quantity-has-a-quality-all-its-own/
on “What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all”