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Panopticon Central
Personal blog · panopticoncentral.netprogrammingculture
Panopticon Central is a personal blog at panopticoncentral.net about programming and culture. Since 2008, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Panopticon Central for posts on software patents, such as Microsoft's patent filings. The one comment is a bare pointer to a new post on the subject and says nothing about the writing.
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.
a blog on programming languageson programming languages, the tech industry, and other stuff…
What Hacker News says?
Paul Vick made a new blog post about this today http://panopticoncentral.net/2012/02/16/software-patents-rev...
Comment linking /2012/02/16/software-patents-revisited/
on “Microsoft's 2003 patent application for the "Is Not" operator”Submitted LL vs. LR vs. GLR as a story · 30 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Use/Build Fallacy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Black Hole Projects as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reserved words: what are they good for? (Absolutely nothing?) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Status bar == almost entirely superfluous as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The use/build fallacy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Seven Rules for Beginning Programmers as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
