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Rich Infante
Personal blog · rich.shprogramminghardwarestartups
Rich Infante's personal blog at rich.sh covers programming, hardware and startups. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Rich Infante's posts for a dark-mode uBlock Origin filter set for Hacker News and for his views on using generated icons on blog posts. Commenters adapt the filters rather than praising the writing.
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.
Rich Infante's blog - covering programming, electronics, startups, 3D printing, and everything not in between.
Most-linked posts?
- /2024/03/20/hn-theme2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-02
What Hacker News says?
I've been using a modified¹ version of Rich Infantes uBlock script for Hacker News², it's a little less monochrome than the one from Darek Kay and appeals more to my aesthetic sensibilities. (1) https://pastebin.com/Rnsi6Ztw (2) https://rich.sh/2024/03/20/hn-theme
Comment linking /2024/03/20/hn-theme
on “Website Themes with uBlock Origin”> 1. Dark mode Ublock Origin filters are great workaround https://rich.sh/2024/03/20/hn-theme just update a few lines: # Text news.ycombinator.com##.c00:style(color: #fafafa !important) # Inputs news.ycombinator.com##input[type="text"], input[type="url"], textarea :style(background-color: inherit; border: 1px solid #d4d4d4; color: #000000 !important)
Comment linking /2024/03/20/hn-theme
on “Is anyone interested in a better Hacker News?”This is my take. Most of my ( https://rich.sh/blog ) blog posts, are of actual things I can screenshot or take a photo of, and if I can I'll use that. But, for abstract posts, random bits of code, notes, etc - it looks bad to have them be all the same generic icon or my headshot for them it seems off-putting. I'm not a graphic artist, so I instead use MidJourney generated icons for social / post icons that match the…
Comment linking /blog
on “AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog”