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Matt Richman

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Matt Richman's personal blog at mattrichman.net covers business and hardware. Since 2015, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Italy, America, and the iPhone”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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2015–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2016

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for its posts on Apple's CPU architecture transitions and the move to ARM-based Macs. The linked posts are cited as background in threads on those topics.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Hi! I’m Matt. I live in San Francisco. I really like pizza and ebikes ✨ I recently worked at Stripe, where I helped build Stripe Atlas and Stripe Capital. Before joining Stripe, I wrote about technology. I’m also pretty interested in a world without cars, and in all things design. If you want to say

Most-linked posts?

  1. /apple-and-arm-sitting-in-a-tree/
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-08-23
  2. Italy, America, and the iPhone
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-01-19

What Hacker News says?

  1. Or, going back even further: https://www.mattrichman.net/apple-and-arm-sitting-in-a-tree/

    Comment linking /apple-and-arm-sitting-in-a-tree/

    on “Why Apple Will Switch to ARM-Based Macs (2014)”
  2. Submitted Why Apple Will Switch to ARM-Based Macs (2014) as a story · 221 points

    HN discussion
  3. I remember each of the architecture transitions (M68k->PPC, PPC->x86, x86->ARM), and perhaps the most vivid recollection I have of each one is that it made perfect sense at the time. In other words, it wasn't a surprise move by Apple, and I remember widespread speculation for years beforehand in the broader community (Apple users and otherwise). PPC offered tremendous promise in the early 1990s at the same time Moto…

    Comment linking /apple-and-arm-sitting-in-a-tree/

    on “Apple CPU Architecture Through the Ages”
  4. Submitted Why Apple Will Switch to ARM-Based Macs (2014) as a story · 38 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Apple and ARM, Sitting in a Tree(2011) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Italy, America, and the iPhone as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Italy, America, and the iPhone as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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