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Nicholas Blee

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Nicholas Blee's personal blog at nicholasblee.com covers startups and programming. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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2012–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The one comment only mentions the author's Firespotting project, a Hacker News clone built on EC2, and links to the blog post describing how it was set up. The comment does not judge the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

What Hacker News says?

  1. Thanks for the pointer. Did not try teles.pe - basically Firespotting started as an exercise to create a "hacker news clone" on EC2 - and Google guided me to the arc script implementation on EC2. Basically this link: http://nicholasblee.com/blog/hacker-news-clone-on-a-free-aws...

    Comment linking /blog/hacker-news-clone-on-a-free-aws-ec2-instance-wapache-reverse-proxy-server-20-min-install/

    on “A Hacker News For Ideas”
  2. Submitted How to Install A Hacker News Clone on EC2 in 20 minutes as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted You're Done Reading Startup Books. Go Do Stuff. as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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