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Q42 Blog

Company blog · q42.com/blogprogramminghardware

Q42 Blog is the company blog at q42.com, writing about programming and hardware. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Hacking the coffee machine”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-25, and you can follow it by feed.

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5mentions?
3HN people?
2013–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked in a Van Gogh Museum thread only for its credit line naming Q42 as the developer. The comment does not discuss the blog's writing.

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.

Q42 builds digital products that make people's lives smarter, better and more fun. With more than 100 engineers, we invent and create apps, websites, connected devices and AI applications.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Hacking the coffee machine
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-01-26

What Hacker News says?

  1. Designed by Fabrique ( http://fabrique.nl ) and developed by Q42 ( http://q42.com ). :)

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    on “Van Gogh Museum”
  2. Submitted Hacking the coffee machine as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted How to control office light color using Meteor and Philips Hue as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Control our office lights from our website as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Q42: Hacking the coffee machine with Particle and MeteorJS as a story · 1 points

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