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Peter Maass
Personal blog · petermaass.com/articleswritingpolitics
Peter Maass's personal blog at petermaass.com covers writing and politics. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Focus on systems rather than personalities”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-09, 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 Peter Maass's site as an archive of his journalism on international affairs and surveillance, covering about ten years of articles plus his 1990s reporting on the Bosnian War. One commenter also notes a New Yorker piece about him.
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.
Welcome to my website. A few words of introduction. I am a writer and editor. My first book was Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War, about the conflict in Bosnia. It was published in 1996 and won a Los Angeles Times book prize and the Overseas Press Club’s book prize. My second book, Cru
Most-linked posts?
- Focus on systems rather than personalities2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-08-13
What Hacker News says?
For those not familiar with him, Maass is an interesting journalist mainly focusing on international affairs. He's been following the surveillance story for a bit, and has an archive of some of his articles from the past ~10 years or so here: http://www.petermaass.com/articles/ He wrote a bunch of articles in the '90s as well, but doesn't seem to have them on his site. However his reporting on the Bosnian War was co…
Comment linking /articles/we_steal_secrets_misses_the_leak_for_the_leakers/
on “Q & A: Edward Snowden speaks to Peter Maass”Submitted Focus on systems rather than personalities as a story · 1 points
HN discussion9 years ago there was a small writeup about me in the New Yorker- http://www.petermaass.com/articles/the_supercool_top-secret_... - small as in it was in the "talk of the town" section, which tends to cover trivial things in a column or so. That one write-up of the incident changed my perception of the media profoundly. I had been interviewed probably a dozen times before the interview with Peter Maass, and had even…
Comment linking /articles/the_supercool_top-secret_dvd-decoder_song/
on “How copy editing is done at the New Yorker”