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Peter Cai
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Peter Cai's personal blog at typeblog.net covers programming and culture. Since 2024, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Getting Called "Paid Actor" by Linus Torvalds”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in HN threads about Linux kernel community and maintainer issues. The one linked post, judging by its URL, covers being called a paid actor by Linux maintainers. Comments do not assess the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Certified Paid Actor of the Holy Empire of Catgirls by Linus Torvalds himself
Most-linked posts?
- Getting Called "Paid Actor" by Linus Torvalds4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-10-23
What Hacker News says?
>My point is that do not act surprised when you will see a noticeable reduction of contributions from Russian, Chinese, etc. developers. Most of people leaving (or not joining in the first place) will not be as visible as the Sergey's goodbye. By itself it may not be a huge deal, especially in the near term, but it compounds with other factors like dwindling (relative) popularity of C and the recent Rust debacle. I…
Comment linking /55833/getting-called-paid-actor-by-linus-torvalds
on “Goodbye from a Linux Community Volunteer”Submitted Getting Called "Paid Actor" by Linus Torvalds as a story · 79 points
HN discussionMy point is that do not act surprised when you will see a noticeable reduction of contributions from Russian, Chinese, etc. developers. Most of people leaving (or not joining in the first place) will not be as visible as the Sergey's goodbye. By itself it may not be a huge deal, especially in the near term, but it compounds with other factors like dwindling (relative) popularity of C and the recent Rust debacle. >An…
Comment linking /55833/getting-called-paid-actor-by-linus-torvalds
on “Goodbye from a Linux Community Volunteer”It appears this has the email thread [1] [1] - https://typeblog.net/55833/getting-called-paid-actor-by-linu...
Comment linking /55833/getting-called-paid-actor-by-linus-torvalds
on “Re: [PATCH] Revert "MAINTAINERS: Remove some entries due to compliance"”