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Run to the Hills

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Run to the Hills is a personal blog at wwahammy.com about programming, security and politics. Since 2015, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Is LibrePlanet Safe?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-20, and you can follow it by feed.

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6mentions?
6HN people?
2015–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog as a source on free software and Richard Stallman's conduct, including a post on safety at LibrePlanet. Comments cite it in discussions of the GNU project and RMS.

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.

Run to the Hills.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Is LibrePlanet Safe?
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-12-15
  2. Seriously, the FCC might still ban your operating system
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-12-11

What Hacker News says?

  1. Luckily, no one involved is in the UK. > 2. Richard Stallman has been contributing to a negative environment for women at MIT for over thirty years. From the original article, contains a number of quotes from witnesses and people who felt uncomfortable or harassed due to Stallman's behavior over a span of ~20 years while he was at MIT. Then there's this[1], this one where he argued about the re-inclusion of an abort…

    Comment linking /on-safety-at-libreplanet/

    on “No Radical Changes in GNU Project”
  2. Submitted Seriously, the FCC might still ban your operating system as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  3. I can link more: https://wwahammy.com/on-safety-at-libreplanet/ But I fear no matter how much I link it will never be enough.

    Comment linking /on-safety-at-libreplanet/

    on “RMS Support Letter”
  4. Submitted Is LibrePlanet Safe? as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Drastically improving encrypted hard drive performance on Linux as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Seriously, the FCC might still ban your operating system as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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