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Ralph Nader
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Ralph Nader's personal blog at nader.org covers politics and business. Since 2019, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Boeing’s Homicides Will Give Way to Safety Reforms if Flyers Organize”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Ralph Nader's posts as sources on auto safety, speed limits, Boeing, corporate power and online advertising surveillance. The comments cite the posts without judging their writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Boeing’s Homicides Will Give Way to Safety Reforms if Flyers Organize2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-04-26
- The Root of the Internet's Disrepute- Online Advertising2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-04-18
What Hacker News says?
The claim was that 50mph should be the highest limit anywhere , including freeways. Combined with a hard 50mph limit imposed on vehicles. You buy a new car, it can't go faster than 50mph, period. The movement has roots in Ralph Nader going back to the 50s https://nader.org/1970/12/11/the-american-automobile-designe...
Comment linking /1970/12/11/the-american-automobile-designed-for-death/
on “Death rates rose in hospital ERs after private equity firms took over”Submitted Boeing’s Homicides Will Give Way to Safety Reforms if Flyers Organize as a story · 72 points
HN discussionRalph Nader has an analysis on how online advertising is often at the root of corporate surveillance. https://nader.org/2018/10/04/the-root-of-the-internets-disre... Of course, other forms of surveillance, like rulers spying on their own citizens, are time-honoured cornerstones of civilisation. (/s)
Comment linking /2018/10/04/the-root-of-the-internets-disrepute-online-advertising/
on “Once it was easy to be obscure, but technology has ended that”Submitted Ralph Nader: Greedy Boeing’s Avoidable Design and Software Time Bombs as a story · 70 points
HN discussionI think we're looking at Mr. Iacocca with some rose-tinted glasses. He sought government bailouts, fought against requiring seatbelts in cars (because a few dollars worth of nylon would "ruin" his margins), and also fought against environmental standards, particularly requiring catalytic converters (to be fair, catalytic converters probably did ruin his margins). He is definitely an icon, but do not forget that he w…
Comment linking /1979/10/25/iacoccas-gw-commencement-speech-on-auto-safety/
on “Lee Iacocca Has Died”Submitted The Root of the Internet's Disrepute- Online Advertising as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIs that true or did the Clinton administration just look the other way? Regardless, it should have been blocked on anti-trust grounds, and subject to approval from Congress. At least, Ralph Nader thought so: https://nader.org/1997/01/02/boeing-mcdonnell-douglas-merger...
Comment linking /1997/01/02/boeing-mcdonnell-douglas-merger/
on “Boeing gearing up for 787 move to South Carolina”The entire article is blogspam for this article: https://nader.org/2019/04/04/boeings-homicide-will-give-way-...
Comment linking /2019/04/04/boeings-homicide-will-give-way-to-safety-reforms-if-flyers-organize/
on “Boeing may be now well and truly fucked”Here's Nader's original: https://nader.org/2019/04/04/boeings-homicide-will-give-way-...
Comment linking /2019/04/04/boeings-homicide-will-give-way-to-safety-reforms-if-flyers-organize/
on “Boeing may be now well and truly fucked”Some highlights (unvetted) - https://www.rthk.hk/radio/radio3/programme/backchat Backchat is RTHK Radio 3's current affairs programme with expert panels and listener participation. - https://wfmu.org/playlists/TD Techtonic with Mark Hurst. Conversations with creators and thinkers who are charting the way forward in a tech-saturated society. Tech, community, video games, and whatever else is next. - https://mainichi.…
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on “Ask HN: Where do you get your news, and why?”
