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Scott Rao
Personal blog · scottrao.com/blogculturebusiness
Scott Rao's personal blog at scottrao.com covers culture and business. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Scott Rao's coffee writing, including his book The Physics of Filter Coffee and posts on water chemistry for brewing. Commenters cite them as the research base for coffee acidity and brewing questions.
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.
Scott Rao is a coffee expert and author specializing in cafe operation, barista training, and coffee roasting and brewing.
What Hacker News says?
To add: The Physics of Filter Coffee : https://www.scottrao.com/products/physics-of-filter-coffee-j... , 2021 ISBN 978-0578246086 https://coffeeadastra.com/ Far as I can tell, Jonathan Gagné doesn't have a dedicated page on his website, it's hosted by Scott Rao. His blog does have a lot of interesting experimental work on the physics which led to the book. As I mentioned, I think this is an interesting academic piec…
Comment linking /products/physics-of-filter-coffee-jonathan-gagne
on “Phase behavior of Cacio and Pepe sauce”Submitted What changed in coffee over the past 30 years? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThat basically has already been well researched: https://awasteof.coffee/how-to/mixing-water/ https://coffeeadastra.com/category/water-for-coffee/ https://www.scottrao.com/blog/lotus-water-drops And is a functional requirement of a bunch Specialty Coffee Association stuff.
Comment linking /blog/lotus-water-drops
on “Method for reducing coffee acidity”