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Nocturnal Slacker v2.0

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Nocturnal Slacker v2.0 is a personal blog at noctslackv2.wordpress.com about history and culture. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book?”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
3HN people?
2022–2022first – last linked?

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

Why HN links it

HN commenters link this blog's post asking about the strangest thing found in a book, which is cited as a related discussion. The comments do not judge the writing.

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.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book?
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-08-03

What Hacker News says?

  1. might want to make the link more specific: https://noctslackv2.wordpress.com/2022/08/02/whats-the-stran...

    Comment linking /2022/08/02/whats-the-strangest-thing-you-ever-found-in-a-book/

    on “What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book?”
  2. Submitted What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book? as a story · 1070 points

    HN discussion
  3. See also: "What’s the Strangest Thing You Ever Found in a Book?" ( https://noctslackv2.wordpress.com/2022/08/02/whats-the-stran... ) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32334552 (1070 points | 3 months ago | 467 comments)

    Comment linking /2022/08/02/whats-the-strangest-thing-you-ever-found-in-a-book/

    on “Guess what we find in books (2016)”
  4. Submitted The Gunpowder Plot – A Reminiscence (Revisited) (2021) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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