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Nishant Kothary

Personal blog · rainypixels.com/wordsdesignwriting

Nishant Kothary writes Rainypixels, a personal blog at rainypixels.com about design and writing. Since 2011, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “The Story of the New Microsoft.com”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.

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7mentions?
7HN people?
2011–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Nishant Kothary's posts on the story behind Microsoft's new web rendering engine and the Microsoft.com makeover. HN commenters link them as background on how those projects came about.

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.

Rainypixels is Nishant Kothary's personal web site — a 100% Cruelty-Free Petting Zoo for Pixels.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The Story of the New Microsoft.com
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-10-02

What Hacker News says?

  1. Some interesting information to the contrary: http://rainypixels.com/words/the-story-of-the-new-microsoft-... http://paravelinc.com/work/microsoft.php

    Comment linking /words/the-story-of-the-new-microsoft-com/

    on “The birth of Microsoft's new web rendering engine”
  2. Submitted The Story of the New Microsoft.com as a story · 191 points

    HN discussion
  3. cico71 · 2012-10-05Recommends
    Can't find the original HN submission, but someone posted this interesting article about it a few days ago: http://rainypixels.com/words/the-story-of-the-new-microsoft-...

    Comment linking /words/the-story-of-the-new-microsoft-com

    on “Microsoft.com gets a makeover”
  4. Submitted Why Instagram Works as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted The Myth of Perfect as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Gray Matters as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Life After Twitter: What happens when you stop using Twitter as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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