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Sangwhan Moon
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Sangwhan Moon's personal blog at stdio.sangwhan.com covers science and programming. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Problems with Japan's Covid-19 reports”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as a critical look at Japan's COVID-19 test reports, titled "140KBs of Unadulterated Incompetence". One commenter cites it as a reason to doubt Japanese government figures.
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.
Posts by Sangwhan Moon.
Most-linked posts?
- Problems with Japan's Covid-19 reports3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-03-30
What Hacker News says?
I get a cert warning on https://stdio.sangwhan.com/wtf-japan-covid-19-report/ which really is a good start.
Comment linking /wtf-japan-covid-19-report/
on “Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-out use of Excel”Submitted Problems with Japan's Covid-19 reports as a story · 220 points
HN discussionIt's probably Japan but that would be the least of the egregiousness. [1] Japan's COVID-19 Reports - 140KBs of Unadulterated Incompetence https://stdio.sangwhan.com/wtf-japan-covid-19-report/ [2] The previous HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22728674
Comment linking /wtf-japan-covid-19-report/
on “Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-out use of Excel”Why trust the figures coming out of Japan? Were the lies around Fukushima not enough to bring a hint of scepticism? Or maybe this blog article[1] which was on the front page of HN[2] a while back? Japan has a culture of conformism enforced by social pressure, and many places are now mandating that they be worn, that's why the masks are worn en masse of late, but often they're worn for privacy when you've little pers…
Comment linking /wtf-japan-covid-19-report/
on “The science of mask-wearing hasn’t changed, so why have our expectations?”