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Paul Bakaus

Personal blog · paulbakaus.comwebdesignai

Paul Bakaus's personal blog at paulbakaus.com covers web, design and ai. Since 2009, 24 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “The Illusion of Speed”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-22, and you can follow it by feed.

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29mentions?
24HN people?
2009–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2017

Building AI tools. Writing about code, creativity, and the creator economy. A tech exec who still ships.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The Illusion of Speed
    6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2017-06-15
  2. The Illusion of Motion
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-05-22
  3. The Three Freedoms of the Web
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-02-23
  4. Why Canvas is not an obvious choice for web games
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-11-29

What Hacker News says?

  1. mindhunter · 2012-11-09
    Reminds me of Paul Bakaus' Aves Gaming Engine (also canvas based and isometric view). He was very active documenting his research on it's performance: http://paulbakaus.com/2010/07/19/why-canvas-is-not-an-obviou...

    Comment linking /2010/07/19/why-canvas-is-not-an-obvious-choice-for-web-games/

    on “Buildy, a real-time HTML5 building game - come build in our biggest world yet”
  2. robin_reala · 2015-03-13

    Submitted When IE gave us beautiful, fast touch interactions, and nobody cared as a story · 236 points

    HN discussion
  3. callahad · 2016-10-14
    > #2: “AMP is a Google project” This is not a misconception. Literally every AMP "Core Committer" is a Google employee, all contributions are subject to a Google CLA which includes a patent grant, every AMP page must include a third party script hosted by Google, and it's impossible to opt-out of Google's AMP Cache, which preferentially links to and re-hosts your content on Google's servers instead of allowing you t…

    Comment linking /about/

    on “10 Misconceptions about AMP”
  4. sandaru1 · 2009-10-19

    Submitted Underestimated UI techniques: Morphing as a story · 46 points

    HN discussion
  5. binomial · 2010-11-29

    Submitted Why Canvas is not an obvious choice for web games as a story · 43 points

    HN discussion
  6. dedalus · 2016-10-14

    Submitted 10 Misconceptions about AMP as a story · 40 points

    HN discussion
  7. mnemonik · 2009-10-06

    Submitted Why I Would Hire Game Developers for my Startup as a story · 27 points

    HN discussion
  8. tanu057 · 2017-08-31

    Submitted The Illusion of Speed as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  9. bpierre · 2014-08-26

    Submitted The web is built to last as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  10. martinml · 2014-07-11

    Submitted The Illusion of Motion as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  11. ismavis · 2014-05-22

    Submitted The Illusion of Motion as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  12. ColinWright · 2012-04-29

    Submitted If Walt Disney was running a web business as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  13. nnx · 2017-06-24

    Submitted The Illusion of Speed as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. Vinnl · 2021-02-23

    Submitted The Three Freedoms of the Web as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. fagnerbrack · 2017-08-30

    Submitted The Illusion of Speed: When Objective Measurement Is Useless as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. dedalus · 2014-07-24

    Submitted Illusion of Motion as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. cleverjake · 2013-02-20

    Submitted Is Android good yet? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. cleverjake · 2013-02-07

    Submitted MIHTool, the iOS web debugger as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. franze · 2011-10-05

    Submitted Sprite Animations on CSS Transitions as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. tate · 2021-03-23

    Submitted The Three Freedoms of the Web as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. akras14 · 2017-07-24

    Submitted Building a PWAMP #0: Introducing the ShadowReader as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. sheldor · 2017-06-22

    Submitted The Illusion of Speed as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. tbassetto · 2017-06-16

    Submitted The Illusion of Speed as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. tbirrell · 2017-06-15

    Submitted The Illusion of Speed as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. bpierre · 2015-03-06

    Submitted DevTools. For Designers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. publicfig · 2013-05-13

    Submitted No, HTML5 does not have a performance issue. as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. tbassetto · 2012-03-09

    Submitted Real-world APIs as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  28. sorenbs · 2011-10-26

    Submitted Enabling the internal debug menu of Safari as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  29. sorenbs · 2011-10-18

    Submitted Finding music that makes you produvtive as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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