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Matthew Cambion
Personal blog · starbreaker.org/blogcultureprogramming
Matthew Cambion's personal blog at starbreaker.org covers culture and programming. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Comments concern a personal blog by Matthew Cambion, including a post explaining why he dislikes Hacker News commenters and a script on the site called reject.js.
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.
starbreaker.org is a grimoire of rock operatic science fantasy and other sacraments of defiance created by Matthew Cambion
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/they-came-from-hacker-news/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-03
What Hacker News says?
> Incidentally, he has reasons for not liking people who comment on this site. He explains them in < https://starbreaker.org/blog/they-came-from-hacker-news/ >. You need not agree with him, but he isn't being arbitary or childish. I read that and, you know what, fair enough, honestly, heck, look at my profile description — I actually agree with his assessment of Hacker News as a whole (the cryptofascist pseudointell…
Comment linking /blog/they-came-from-hacker-news/
on “Digital Relationships; or, How I Met My Wife and Why I Might Not Try That Again”Submitted JavaScript Naked Day as a story · 29 points
HN discussionThis is how he does it. https://starbreaker.org/reject.js All I had to do was right-click and select "view source"? It's not like he minifies his HTML to hell and back like people do on commercial sites, but maybe his build step is mangling his <script> element. That might be why it's only working on Firefox. Incidentally, he has reasons for not liking people who comment on this site. He explains them in < https://s…
Comment linking /blog/they-came-from-hacker-news/
on “Digital Relationships; or, How I Met My Wife and Why I Might Not Try That Again”Submitted About Some Toast and Eggs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Robots.txt: The Nuclear Option as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dictionary Integrations as a story · 1 points
HN discussion