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Phillip Kast

Personal blog · philkast.com · on HN as philstartupsprogramming

Phillip Kast's personal blog at philkast.com covers startups and programming. Since 2008, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “SSL Added and Removed Here”. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.

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6mentions?
5HN people?
2008–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked posts describe the author's NSA-themed 'spying' t-shirt, whose sales raised money for the EFF and ACLU. HN readers also mention the blog being hosted on a Nintendo Wii.

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.

The author on HN?

phil · 1,874 karma · member since 2007

Formerly: YC W07 (WriteWith), Auctomatic (acquired), Urbanspoon Now: Independent product creation for iOS, OS X, Web. Mischief. phil@yearofcode.com http://twitter.com/yeahphil http://yearofcode.com http://philkast.com I'm on Keybase: --- [ my public key: https://keybase.io/kast; my proof: https://keybase.io/kast/sigs/dEkqhDCfLTxHpUyO7TFI8Bzx9fBU5iuI-w0AIB4MnIc ] ---

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. SSL Added and Removed Here
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-10-30

What Hacker News says?

  1. I used to have that as a shirt, but I think I lost it: https://philkast.com/2013/10/30/spying-tshirt.html

    Comment linking /2013/10/30/spying-tshirt.html

    on “Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii”
  2. Submitted We raised money for the EFF and ACLU with an NSA t-shirt as a story · 51 points

    HN discussion
  3. From the article -- http://philkast.com/2013/10/30/spying-tshirt.html

    Comment linking /2013/10/30/spying-tshirt.html

    on “We raised money for the EFF and ACLU with an NSA t-shirt”
  4. Submitted SSL Added and Removed Here as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted How many apps are in the Top 200? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Auctomatic has been acquired by Live Current Media (Smalltalk/Seaside ftw) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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