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Parker Moore

Personal blog · byparker.com/blogprogrammingculture

Parker Moore writes By Parker, a personal blog at byparker.com about programming and culture. Since 2015, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Tim Cook's Privacy Battle Is Also Personal”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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10mentions?
6HN people?
2015–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2015

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

Why HN links it

Only one comment, in a Vault 7 surveillance thread, quotes surveillance and extortion concerns. It does not mention this blog or its writing, so HN's reason for linking it is unclear.

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.

The personal website of Parker Moore.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Tim Cook's Privacy Battle Is Also Personal
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-03-02
  2. Ruby 2.2 catastrophe with Time#parse and Time#localtime
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-01-04

What Hacker News says?

  1. > Embedded journalists, activists, people with sensitive medical information. This reference sample is very small if compared to the possibilities. Everybody has something private that can be used to extort informations, to gain privileges or what-else. The US is not in the position to assure the current surveillance infrastructure (and so the confidentiality of the data) will endure the centuries. An example ? ...…

    Comment linking /blog/2016/tim-cook-s-privacy-battle-is-personal/

    on “Wikileaks Vault 7 Release: Dark Matter”
  2. Submitted Ruby 2.2.0 Time#parse TZ-related regression as a story · 44 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Ruby 2.2 catastrophe with Time#parse and Time#localtime as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Work in the Cloud as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Ruby 2.2.0 Time#parse TZ-related regression as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted If you care about 'emerging markets', care about speed as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Working with Go (as a Rubyist) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Export your starred episodes from Overcast as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted brew gem install jekyll as a story · 1 points

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  10. Submitted Tim Cook's Privacy Battle Is Also Personal as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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