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Rambling around foo
Personal blog · ramblingfoo.blogspot.comhardwareculture
Rambling around foo is a personal blog at ramblingfoo.blogspot.com about hardware and culture. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “The stupidest trend in laptop design”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One commenter links a 2013 post whose URL begins 'the-stupidest-trend'. The comment cites it as matching the commenter's own view, so the comments say little about the writing itself.
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.
tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects
Most-linked posts?
- The stupidest trend in laptop design3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-10-30
What Hacker News says?
I just found this which says exactly what my thoughts are http://ramblingfoo.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-stupidest-trend-...
Comment linking /2013/10/the-stupidest-trend-in-laptop-design-is.html
on “Purism Aims to Build a Philosophically Pure Laptop”Submitted The stupidest trend in laptop design as a story · 31 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reasons why a numpad on a laptop is a bad idea as a story · 4 points
HN discussion