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Meribold
Personal blog · meribold.org · on HN as meriboldprogrammingsystems
Meribold is a personal blog at meribold.org about programming and systems. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “A Critique of the Open Letter Calling for the Removal of RMS”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link meribold.org posts on Richard Stallman and the RMS open letter, and on Python virtual environments. The comments cite them as support or as see-also references rather than praising the writing.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- A Critique of the Open Letter Calling for the Removal of RMS3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-04-07
- Virtual Environments Demystified2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-02
What Hacker News says?
I did an unweighted, unfiltered count of the submissions with more than 10 comments in your post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26713636 16 negative 8 positive In the examples of popular threads you cited, a two-thirds supermajority were anit-Stallman. I did a cursory search for "RMS" and "Stallman" in the past month, since your link was posted. I found 3 pro-Stallman articles (and no anti-Stallman ones)…
Comment linking /2021/04/07/critique-of-rms-open-letter/
on “●●|●●●●●|●●|●”Submitted Using the same Arch Linux installation for a decade as a story · 526 points
HN discussionMine is https://meribold.org/ .
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on “Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)”Submitted A Critique of the Open Letter Calling for the Removal of RMS as a story · 234 points
HN discussionThese complains are brought up by people that never actually worked with Stallman and are ridiculous nonsense. Why are you supporting and repeating such vile accusations that have repeatedly been debunked by people that actually worked with Stallman? https://whoisylvia.medium.com/richard-stallman-has-been-vili... https://meribold.org/2021/04/07/critique-of-rms-open-letter/
Comment linking /2021/04/07/critique-of-rms-open-letter/
on “We need more of Richard Stallman, not less”Submitted Virtual Environments Demystified as a story · 93 points
HN discussionSee also: Virtual Environments Demystified ( https://meribold.org/python/2018/02/13/virtual-environments-... ) Discussion from 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25611307
Comment linking /python/2018/02/13/virtual-environments-9487/
on “How Python virtual environments work”Submitted A Survey of CPU Caches (2017) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion