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Personal blog · razzed.comwebdata

razzed is a personal blog at razzed.com about web and data. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-02-13, and you can follow it by feed.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2010–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2014

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link razzed for short technical posts: one on what parameters Google sends during an outbound click, and one on confusion over the whois utility. Commenters cite them as sources.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. /2009/01/15/at-first-i-thought-google-was-being-hacked/
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-09-29

What Hacker News says?

  1. Here's another blog post with even more information on what parameters are being sent to Google during the click: http://www.razzed.com/2009/02/12/analysis-of-google-outbound...

    Comment linking /2009/02/12/analysis-of-google-outbound-link-tracking/

    on “How Google tracks clicks for backpropagation”
  2. This is a common point of confusion regarding the `whois` utility [0] [1]. [0] https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=whois+google.com+hacke... [1] http://razzed.com/2009/01/15/at-first-i-thought-google-was-b...

    Comment linking /2009/01/15/at-first-i-thought-google-was-being-hacked/

    on “$ whois microsoft.com”
  3. Eh it seems I'm learning about the whois command today... http://razzed.com/2009/01/15/at-first-i-thought-google-was-b... Thanks @jtaylor

    Comment linking /2009/01/15/at-first-i-thought-google-was-being-hacked/

    on “$ whois microsoft.com”

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