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Musings of an IT Fossil

Personal blog · itfossil.com/posts · on HN as itfossilprogrammingculturecareer

Musings of an IT Fossil is a personal blog at itfossil.com about programming, culture and career. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-12, and you can follow it by feed.

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15mentions?
3HN people?
2024–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 13 in 2024

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itfossil · 102 karma · member since 2024

Technically obsolete but consciously rebelling https://itfossil.com

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What Hacker News says?

  1. https://itfossil.com/verses/2024/12/scientific-reports-call-...

    Comment linking /verses/2024/12/scientific-reports-call-out/

    on “AI poetry is indistinguishable from human poetry and is rated more favorably”
  2. Submitted Our Users Deserve a Bill of Rights as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Modern Software Mostly Sucks and Nobody Gives a Shit as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Eat the Rich: Brian Thompson as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Money Hungry Mob of Extortionists, Grifters and Rent-Seekers as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted The Advice Trap as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted 2024: Rant of the Tech Grinch as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted AI is a Thief as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Diagram Sans Venn: How I Became a Fossil as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted The Terrified Within as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted OceanGate, Titan and Rush: Going Down with the Ship as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Optimizing All the Wrong Things as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted The Separation of Ego and Engineering as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted The Surprisingly Empowering Loss of Zeal as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted That's the Sound of Devs Working on the Chain Gang as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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