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openmonstervision.github.io is a personal blog at openmonstervision.github.io about programming and career. Since 2017, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “How Not to Get a Job with an Elite Tech Company”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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14mentions?
3HN people?
2017–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2017

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

Why HN links it

The linked posts cover making money with grep, sed and awk, and a post about how the author handled the personal questions in a job interview. One commenter links the interview post.

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.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. How Not to Get a Job with an Elite Tech Company
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-09-21
  2. I Worked for a Criminal Organization
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-02-18

What Hacker News says?

  1. I didn't mind, I actually lolled when reading his other blogpost about how he botched the personal question part of an interview: https://openmonstervision.github.io/blog/posts/how-not-to-ge...

    Comment linking /blog/posts/how-not-to-get-a-job-with-an-elite-tech-company/

    on “How to Make Money Using Grep, Sed and Awk”
  2. Submitted I Worked for a Criminal Organization as a story · 264 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted How to Make Money Using Grep, Sed and Awk as a story · 72 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Building a Neural Net to Predict Tom Brady's Fantasy Points as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Turning the D and D 4th Ed Monster Manual into a JSON Database as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Let's Talk Honestly about recruiters as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted DNDShell, Automating DMing as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Grubby Little Hacker as a story · 3 points

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  9. Submitted Micfo: I Worked for a Criminal Organization (2020) as a story · 2 points

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  10. Submitted The Curious Case of New Bremen, a DevOps Interview with Crown Equipment as a story · 2 points

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  11. Submitted How to use R and datasets, to make GeoLocated Maps as a story · 2 points

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  12. Submitted The Perils of Freelancing as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted PHP Recruiter Email as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted How Not to Get a Job with an Elite Tech Company as a story · 1 points

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