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Paul Frazee
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Paul Frazee writes Paul's Leaflets, a personal blog at pfrazee.leaflet.pub about programming and web. Since 2025, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “The politics of purely client-side apps”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-17, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Paul Frazee's post compares three schemes for shared-private storage, relevant to an HN discussion of developing a rubric for private data on the AT Protocol.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- /3lzhui2zbxk2b2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-09-23
- The politics of purely client-side apps2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-14
What Hacker News says?
Yes, something like this is planned in longer term. The team decided to tackle public data first because scaling aggregation while preserving meaningful ownership is hard. So far I think they’ve succeeded at that. Private or semi-private comes with a set of different challenges. Indeed scoped tokens are coming (via OAuth scopes) but that’s used for writes. The same mechanism could be extended for private reads in th…
Comment linking /3lzhui2zbxk2b
on “Open Social”Submitted Select * from Internet.blogposts as a story · 133 points
HN discussionFor now, yes, only 100% public data lives on the protocol (you can still, of course, augment protocol data with the stuff you hold in the DB). In the future, the plan is to also enable some types of private data on the protocol. See these recent notes from Paul on the state of things: - https://pfrazee.leaflet.pub/3lzhmtognls2q - https://pfrazee.leaflet.pub/3lzhui2zbxk2b
Comment linking /3lzhui2zbxk2b
on “Open Social”Submitted The politics of purely client-side apps as a story · 29 points
HN discussionI think it's only reliant on them to the extent that you want to build copies of the same exact experience, which I personally don't find very interesting. I think a much more compelling story is not, say, "a clone of Bluesky with a Bluesky DM folder", but, say, "a Spaces-like product that closely integrates with Bluesky (for posting) and is also listed as a stream on on Streamplace". I agree that some information s…
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on “Nostr and ATProto (2024)”Submitted AT Protocol private data: Developing a rubric for success as a story · 5 points
HN discussionRelated: “Three schemes for shared-private storage” https://pfrazee.leaflet.pub/3lzhui2zbxk2b
Comment linking /3lzhui2zbxk2b
on “AT Protocol private data: Developing a rubric for success”Submitted The politics of purely client-side apps as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Starting from Scale in the Design of the AT Protocol as a story · 2 points
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