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Rishikesh Sreehari
Personal blog · rishikeshs.com · on HN as rishikeshswritingculture
Rishikesh Sreehari's personal blog at rishikeshs.com covers writing and culture. Since 2021, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 38 times, most often “I Miss My Fan Regulator”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment here concerns whether the site's RSS and JSON feeds can be parsed by a web reader app, not the writing. Its topics are not described in the comments.
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.
This is my webspace. A niche-less blog where I gather and share my ideas and document my life. I consider this blog as an evolving art project itself.
Most-linked posts?
- I Miss My Fan Regulator2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-05-30
- How and why I version my blog2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-11-25
- Curation still relevant in post-AI world?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-18
What Hacker News says?
Here’s another version of mine: https://rishikeshs.com/timeline/
Comment linking /timeline/
on “My Life in Weeks”Submitted File over App: A Philosophy for Digital Longevity as a story · 60 points
HN discussionEven im fascinated by such things. I would definitely suggest you to read a book titled ‘The Toaster Project’ where the artist tries to create a toaster from scratch including the plastic casing. This also inspired me to write about a thought experiment called ‘Man from the Future’: https://rishikeshs.com/man-from-the-future/
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on “Ask HN: Do you also marvel at the complexity of everyday objects?”Submitted I Miss My Fan Regulator as a story · 13 points
HN discussionI wrote something similar about how I miss my old fan speed regulator: https://rishikeshs.com/fan-regulator/ Hate these new BLDC fans!
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on “What is going on with ceiling fans”Submitted Be Curious, Always as a story · 10 points
HN discussionI’m currently working on a Static HTML Comment system for my blog[1]. I recently moved my blog from Wordpress to Hugo and wanted to move away from Disqus. The goal is to build a backend that receives the comment, forwards to Telegram for approval and then push a code to Github for rebuilding the site. I’ve implemented a POC currently with Google Apps Script, but trying to build a robust backend with Flask. Preventin…
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on “Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?”Submitted Notes on Robot Vacuums as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis one: https://rishikeshs.com/index.xml Is it an issue with Cloudflare blocking the bots?
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on “Show HN: Artemis, a Calm Web Reader”Submitted I Miss My Fan Regulator as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHello there! Did you receive an error with your RSS feed ( https://rishikeshs.com/index.xml ) or the JSON feed ( https://rishikeshs.com/index.json )? I am able to successfully poll the RSS feed, but the JSON one is returning an error. Only JSON Feeds that conform to https://www.jsonfeed.org/version/1.1/ are parsable by the software.
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on “Show HN: Artemis, a Calm Web Reader”Submitted How and why I version my blog as a story · 3 points
HN discussionUnable to add my blog[1] hosted on Cloudflare. Is it an issue with CF? [1] https://rishikeshs.com
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on “Show HN: Artemis, a Calm Web Reader”Submitted Blogging with Friction as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI was learning how to work with Cloudflare Workers and implemented something called a Pixel Mosaic: https://rishikeshs.com/mosaic/ . It's a live pixel mosaic where anyone can change the color, with the color being chosen randomly, so the chances of two adjacent tiles having the same color are quite low. I also log the country to see where people who have clicked it are from. I am currently working on a desktop 8x8 L…
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on “Ask HN: What's the most creative 'useless' program you've ever written?”Submitted Ovarian Lottery as a story · 3 points
HN discussionLoved it! Is the code publicly available? When I built mine[1], I did the mistake of keeping each row as 26 weeks and 2 rows roughly as one year of life. This causes some rounding errors! Loved this design as its responsive. Question: The wider cells, do they represent one week and its simply wide just to fit in the text? [1] https://rishikeshs.com/timeline/
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on “Show HN: I made a website where you can create your own "Life in Weeks" timeline”Submitted Trying the 30-Day Meditation Challenge as an Atheist as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI think more than anything, the sense of tweaking, writing and publishing my blog is unmatched! I wrote a bit about it recently here: https://rishikeshs.com/blogging-friction/ Apart from the joy of it, my blog has helped me in my career. I had applied for a job in my niche area which required me to have some writing experience. But I never had anything other than my blog to showcase. This gave the interviewer bit of…
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on “Ask HN: Is maintaining a personal blog still worth it?”Submitted Hugo can fetch live data during build using resources.GetRemote as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK | Remote I'm a full-stack developer with expertise in Python, Hugo, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. My preferred stack is Python for backend and Tailwind CSS with Daisy UI for frontend, building clean, functional, and visually appealing applications. I have extensive experience deploying static sites (Cloudflare, Vercel, Netlify, GitHub Pages) and building Flask/serverless applications. With a background in…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2025)”Submitted Why and How I version my blog? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI had a similar thought and wrote about evergreen blogs recently: https://rishikeshs.com/journal/evergreen-blogs/ Derek Sivers is planning something similar with Digital Legacy Trust: https://legacytrust.nz/
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on “Ask HN: Where to put a static page that would last forever”Submitted My Blog is my Greatest Art as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK Location: UAE, Europe, Remote Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Python, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Hugo Framework, Python for Power Analysis(PyPSA) I'm a freelance developer with experience in Python and modern web frameworks. I have a background in energy policy and modelling, so particularly interested in projects that are in climate, energy domain. Upwork Profile: https://www.upwork.com/f…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2025)”Submitted The Useless Button as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHow did you manage to spot the spam? I host static comments on my site[1] with a comment form. I get a lot of spam that looks like Russian! [1] https://rishikeshs.com
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on “Ask HN: Is CAPTCHA even needed anymore?”Submitted Curation still relevant in post-AI world? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI predominantly use ReadWise[1] for this. It has something called spaced repetition and gives me daily highlights from books and other sources. I wrote about it here: https://rishikeshs.com/readwise-review/ [1] https://readwise.io/rishikesh/
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on “Ask HN: How do you remember what you have read in a book?”Submitted Becoming a Super Randonneur as a story · 1 points
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