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Matias Kinnunen

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Matias Kinnunen's personal blog at mtsknn.fi covers programming and web. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link Matias Kinnunen's posts on the origin of 'TFA' (featured article), hyperscript as an alternative to JSX, and remembering Markdown's link syntax. The comments only link to these posts.

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.

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What Hacker News says?

  1. https://mtsknn.fi/blog/tfa-stands-for-the-featured-article/

    Comment linking /blog/tfa-stands-for-the-featured-article/

    on “Why do arrays start at 0?”
  2. I'm confused. Hyperscript is supposed to be an alternative way to writing JSX, good for skipping the babel/transpile step. Such as the React h() function. For example: h('header', { id: 'my-header', className: 'header' }, h('div', { className: 'logo' }, h('a', { href: '/' }, 'mtsknn.fi') ) ) Hyperscript.org doesn't seem to be related to this at all? https://mtsknn.fi/blog/hyperscript-hyperior-alternative-to-j... htt…

    Comment linking /blog/hyperscript-hyperior-alternative-to-jsx/

    on “Show HN: A simple Wordle clone in 60 lines, using Hyperscript”
  3. IMO, yes, it is so much more concise that it is worth memorizing. https://mtsknn.fi/blog/how-to-remember-markdowns-link-syntax... Think of it as a function call (mnemonically, it doesn't need to make sense conceptually).

    Comment linking /blog/how-to-remember-markdowns-link-syntax/

    on “Writing HTML by Hand”

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