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numair.com is a personal blog at numair.com about culture, startups and writing. Since 2010, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Culture: Game Over”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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9mentions?
6HN people?
2010–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2017

Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link numair.com for its personal essays, including a homepage read and a post on TechCrunch, Facebook and journalistic bias. Comments are brief and the linked posts are not otherwise discussed.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Culture: Game Over
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-10-18
  2. TechCrunch, Facebook, and journalistic bias
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-09-26
  3. Get out there
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-09-23

What Hacker News says?

  1. Numair also has a very interesting read of a homepage. http://numair.com/ "Live your life as though it is the world's best-kept secret, as though you are living in an amazing TV show with an audience of one."

    Comment linking /

    on “I was once a Facebook fool”
  2. Submitted Culture: Game Over as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. !! I opened https://numair.com in a new tab so I could stumble on it in a bit (figuring this info would turn up there), only to discover a parking page (and TLS cert Chrome did not like). Double-checked the spelling twice. Is it just an email domain? Where can I eventually read about this? Very idly curious :)

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    on “What is AT&T doing at 1111340002?”
  4. Submitted TechCrunch, Facebook, and journalistic bias as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Interesting coincidence especially I read this post a few days ago. Kinda deep towards the end. "TechCrunch, Facebook, and journalistic bias: http://www.numair.com/2012_09_tc.html "

    Comment linking /2012_09_tc.html

    on “You Can’t Put A Price Tag On A TechCrunch Post”
  6. Submitted Get out there as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. I don't want our young people aggregated, even by a benevolent social-networking site. I want them to develop as fierce individuals, and to earn their living doing exactly that. I totally agree. In fact, my personal website reflects this: http://www.numair.com On another note, I think the destruction of the economy around things such as music is creating a massive cultural black hole. I've met far too many amazingly…

    Comment linking /

    on “World Wide Mush: How the Internet has gone off course”
  8. Submitted Culture: Game Over – Gamification's origin in SV, its power and consequences as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Culture: Preface as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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