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Reilly Brennan
Personal blog · reillybrennan.comstartupsbusiness
Reilly Brennan's personal blog at reillybrennan.com covers startups and business. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Even a URL tells a story”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link this blog's posts about URL design, such as 'Even a URL tells a story'. One suggests a year-based URL scheme. The comments discuss the site's URLs, not the writing.
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.
Co-Founder and Partner at Trucks Venture Capital
Most-linked posts?
- Even a URL tells a story2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-07-21
What Hacker News says?
A better URL would be http://reillybrennan.com/2011/even-a-url-tells-a-story - stick the year in there to get a fresh namespace every 12 months so as not to end up with collisions some day.
Comment linking /2011/even-a-url-tells-a-story
on “Even a URL tells a story”Submitted Even a URL tells a story as a story · 75 points
HN discussionIt's ironic that a post about URL tidiness would be here: http://reillybrennan.com/post/7686471401/even-a-url-tells-a-...
Comment linking /post/7686471401/even-a-url-tells-a-story
on “Even a URL tells a story”Submitted Rebuilding the pitch deck for the Pocket as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why is it so difficult to find automaker contact info? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sony discontinued their Dream Machines, nobody noticed as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The design and copywriting opportunity on a lowly cash register receipt as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 3 Different types of product description copywriting as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't mistake ridehailing for AV ridehailing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to get hi-res Zoom video for under $200 as a story · 1 points
HN discussion