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Os's blog
Personal blog · ironholds.org/blogprogrammingculture
Os's blog is a personal blog at ironholds.org about programming and culture. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Why I'm leaving the R community”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Os Keyes' blog for posts on surveillance proctoring, quoting its references on facial recognition, and a post titled "Don't use the mailing lists".
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Why I'm leaving the R community2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-02-01
What Hacker News says?
I followed the references to find the actual argument behind calling surveillance proctoring all of the above, and these are the relevant bits[0]: >At the beginning of a test, these products ask students to verify their identity by matching their appearance with a photo ID. As Os Keyes has demonstrated, facial recognition has a terrible history with gender[x]. This means that a software asking students to verify the…
Comment linking /resources/papers/agr_paper.pdf
on “ProctorU is dystopian spyware”Submitted Why I'm leaving the R community as a story · 65 points
HN discussionIn the time it took him to write that post, he could have found his unterminated string and resubmitted. I originally asked if the author is an adult, but then I decided to revisit the article and saw the link to his CV ( http://ironholds.org/cv.html ). I'll note that the picture he chose is himself as a small child and that he proudly notes, 'while at university I (amongst other things) occupied my time with acting…
Comment linking /cv.html
on “Don't use the mailing lists”Submitted Down and out in statistical computing as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Mulching Proposal [pdf] as a story · 4 points
HN discussion