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Oo Nwoye
Personal blog · oonwoye.com · on HN as OoTheNigerianpoliticsculturewriting
Oo Nwoye writes OoTheNigerian, a personal blog at oonwoye.com about politics, culture and writing. Since 2010, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 80 times, most often “Tech journalism is less diverse than tech (2020)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as a 2020 post on diversity in tech journalism compared with tech companies. Commenters cite it to argue that news outlets criticising tech firms are less diverse than those firms.
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.
The thoughts of Oo Nwoye. Here, I write my thoughts on politics, technology and everything else in-between
Most-linked posts?
- Tech journalism is less diverse than tech (2020)5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-08-02
- Are there renowned Internet startups with black founders?3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2010-10-15
- Emerging market investor perspective on YCs New Deal2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-12
- Pattern Matching, Racial Diversity and the Hypocrisy of Big Tech Media2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-06
What Hacker News says?
People were specifically upset with unfair negative articles it wasn’t about factual criticism. The New York Times doxing a popular pseudo anonymous blogger for example Slat Star Codex, there were articles dragging people for making charitable donations just a lot of stuff that was more gossip and hit pieces injected with the journalist’s opinion and not news. Also articles dragging tech for not being “diverse” when…
Comment linking /2020/07/31/tech-journalism-is-less-diverse-than-tech/
on “The dangers of high status, low wage jobs”Submitted Tech journalism is less diverse than tech (2020) as a story · 258 points
HN discussionI turn 29 in a few weeks. When I turned 27 I wrote a post similar to yours http://oonwoye.com/2010/01/12/a-birthday-rant-why-i-feel-too... . I planned to go full throttle with my startup that year. However, some circumstances made me leave the startup. I am just getting back on track. Here is what has made me move so fast and stay focused in the past 2 months. I struck myself a deal. If I do not launch anything, I w…
Comment linking /2010/01/12/a-birthday-rant-why-i-feel-too-old-at-27/
on “I'm turning 30 and I've produced no amazing art.”Submitted Tech Journalism Is Less Diverse Than Tech as a story · 167 points
HN discussionThis is really weird. I just wrote a post this morning http://oonwoye.com/2012/04/11/dear-larry-before-you-buy-airt... and this redesign reappears a few hours later. It is good hangouts is getting much more prominence.
Comment linking /2012/04/11/dear-larry-before-you-buy-airtime-lets-talk-about-google/
on “Google+ gets a redesign”Submitted Life as a Second Class Citizen of the Web as a story · 140 points
HN discussionThe issue of Net neutrality is a global phenomenon/risk. Telcos in Nigeria abuse their positions as the primary carrier of data and they are protected by having 'licenses' MTN and Rocket Internet recently tied a deal. I wrote about the risk here http://oonwoye.com/2013/12/17/mtn-rocket-internet-deal-worri...
Comment linking /2013/12/17/mtn-rocket-internet-deal-worries-me/
on “VC Pitches in a Year or Two”Submitted Pattern Matching, Racial Diversity and the Hypocrisy of Big Tech Media as a story · 136 points
HN discussionEXACTLY! http://oonwoye.com/2011/03/07/googles-social-problem-the-bra...
Comment linking /2011/03/07/googles-social-problem-the-brand-name-google/
on “Google+ Demo”Submitted Why Facebook never happened in the UK. The case of FitFinder. as a story · 91 points
HN discussionLike the second class citizens of the web we are, Nigeria does not have 2 factor authentication. Ghana, Pakistan, Iran, North Korea, Russia, all have 2 factor authentication. Why not Nigeria? This is just another example why being Nigerian is kinda hard on the internet. https://accounts.google.com/b/0/SmsAuthConfig http://oonwoye.com/2011/01/23/life-as-a-second-class-citizen...
Comment linking /2011/01/23/life-as-a-second-class-citizen-of-the-web/
on “Please turn on two-factor authentication”Submitted Why Your Facebook Ads ‘Don’t Work’. as a story · 51 points
HN discussionI've thought about this a bit and see where both parties are coming from. For Kevin, due to the "trollish" behavior of Maciej during this competition, Kevin was (validly) very suspicious of Maciej's intention for participating in the program. Of course previous history of Maciej rallying against all YC stands for did not help assuage the fears :) For Maciej, the rules are the rules. he (fairly) believes you do not h…
Comment linking /2011/03/09/maciej-of-pinboard-in-nigerians-demand-an-apology/
on “Tell HN: Winners of Apply HN for YC Fellowship 3”Submitted A Cure For ‘Nigerian Internet Scams’. as a story · 37 points
HN discussionhttp://oonwoye.com/2010/04/05/black-founders/
Comment linking /2010/04/05/black-founders/
on “Has YC ever funded a company with a Black founder?”Submitted Interesti.ng. The first .ng domain name has been registered. as a story · 25 points
HN discussionAs a black founder in Technology, I have writeen what I think are two good posts on this issue. Like Michael said hewas advised, people rather not discuss this or instead argue on a tangential. If there is a problem, talk about it and fix it. If not it will persist. Like I always say discussions about race ishould not be equated to racism. In case you are interested, here are my 2 posts on the issue Race andTechnolo…
Comment linking /2011/03/21/hackernews-and-the-dirty-black-founder-question/
on “Michael Arrington on Racism: The Game”Submitted Hackernews And The ‘dirty’ Black Founder Question as a story · 20 points
HN discussionI stand corrected. Thanks ng12 When I looked through, I didn't see him. I'm happy I am wrong here. The stats are still worrying [1]. My greatest joy will be to be continuously wrong on this [1] http://oonwoye.com/2015/10/15/where-are-the-black-tech-found...
Comment linking /2015/10/15/where-are-the-black-tech-foundersexecutive-speakers-at-major-tech-conferences/
on “React Conf 2017 Livestream”Submitted A Sad Startup Idea :( $$$ as a story · 18 points
HN discussionThis is a very news worthy story irrespective of the founder's origin. The founder being Nigerian makes it much more newsworthy. We all know what Nigeria's reputation is like on this thread. Irrespective of what people would want to agree with, there is pattern matching going on. It is not exclusive to this thread or HN. See other blogs and the absence of comments. If it was a randon former Stanford grad and ex-Face…
Comment linking /2010/04/05/black-founders/
on “Apple Acquires Nigerian Tech Entrepreneur's Startup HopStop”Submitted Google vs China as a story · 17 points
HN discussionThis is great work. Like others have pointed out, blogging might have been better especially since tweeter is fleeting. When it is gone, it is gone (mostly). Storify's usecase is for putting different tweets from different timelines/times into a coherent flow. I concede that twitter removes the friction of saying "Let me write a blogpost and think of a title". Maybe a new proper blog theme that makes title optional?…
Comment linking /2013/07/20/twitter-vs-blogging/
on “Pmarca Tweets as Blog Posts”Submitted Maciej of Pinboard.in, Nigerians Demand an Apology. as a story · 10 points
HN discussionJust installed it for my blog. http://oonwoye.com . It's Looking great. I'd love to give credit but I do not want to tamper with my footer code before I break something. I would not mind if it is made part of the plugin code that way people will not be "forced" to withhold credit.
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on “Swiftype Raises $13M”Submitted An Open Letter To Mark Zuckerberg: “Don’t Do A Mugabe To Facebook” as a story · 10 points
HN discussionAren't these sort of articles from tech media whataboutism to distract from their own lack of diversity? This article gives some perspective: https://oonwoye.com/2020/07/31/tech-journalism-is-less-diver... Amazon is actually the most diverse company that Oo Nwoye surveyed.
Comment linking /2020/07/31/tech-journalism-is-less-diverse-than-tech/
on “AWS director sues Amazon, alleging systemic racism in corporate office”Submitted Sergey’s New Title. as a story · 9 points
HN discussionI called it a while ago. http://oonwoye.com/2011/03/13/dont-hate-twitter-we-just-need...
Comment linking /2011/03/13/dont-hate-twitter-we-just-need-an-alternative-part-1/
on “TweetDeck launches web client alternative to Twitter.com”Submitted The Problem With Posterous as a story · 7 points
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