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Jon Lech Johansen
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Jon Lech Johansen writes nanocr.eu, a personal blog at nanocrew.net about programming and culture. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “VLC cone (2005)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-02-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked by commenters as the source of the origin story behind VideoLAN's VLC traffic cone logo, which was reportedly stolen by students of the VIA association.
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.
Jon Lech Johansen’s blog.
Most-linked posts?
- VLC cone (2005)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-02-09
What Hacker News says?
Here's the story http://nanocrew.net/2005/06/23/vlc-cone/ One day, people from the VIA association (VIA is a students’ network association with many clubs … amongst those is VideoLAN.) came back drunk with a cone. They then began a cone collection (which is now quite impressive I must say). Some time later, the VideoLAN project began and they decided to use the cone as their logo.
Comment linking /2005/06/23/vlc-cone/
on “VLC 3.0 release”Submitted VLC cone (2005) as a story · 27 points
HN discussionI always wondered what the VLC cone was about. This prompted me to finally look it up. Interesting: On day, people from the VIA association (VIA is a students' network association with many clubs ... amongst those is VideoLAN. More info here : http://www.via.ecp.fr ) came back drunk with a cone. They then began a cone collection (which is now quite impressive i must say). Some time later, the VideoLAN project began…
Comment linking /2005/06/23/vlc-cone/
on “Realism in UI Design”The story I heard is that the association has a collection of traffic cones that were stolen under the influence of alcohol [0]. [0]: http://nanocrew.net/2005/06/23/vlc-cone/
Comment linking /2005/06/23/vlc-cone/
on “The team that powers VLC (2019)”