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Sebastian Rollén
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Sebastian Rollén writes Sebastian Rollen, a personal blog at rollen.io about programming, web and politics. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Rendering Markdown Views in Rails”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on the climate impact of cryptocurrencies. The one comment here objects to the post's title as clickbait for covering only proof-of-work coins.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Rendering Markdown Views in Rails2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-31
What Hacker News says?
The title should be: 'Proof-of-work cryptocurrencies are worse for the climate than you think' . The author knows it as described in the footnote [0], but why not put in some clickbait anyway and hide the fact that the study they linked to are related to all PoW cryptocurrencies [1]. Not all cryptocurrencies are PoW like Bitcoin. XRP, Cardano, Solana, Polkadot, Stellar and Algorand to name a few with over $1B market…
Comment linking /blog/crypto-climate/
on “Cryptocurrencies are worse for the climate than you think”Submitted Cryptocurrencies are worse for the climate than you think as a story · 78 points
HN discussionAbout 1,200 kWh per transaction, currently[0]. I wrote about this back in 2022, when it was about 2,200 kWh per transaction[1]. Edit: made a chart with this data, but adding in a bitcoin transaction[2] [0]: https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption [1]: https://rollen.io/blog/crypto-climate/ [2]: https://imgur.com/a/ggAGylW
Comment linking /blog/crypto-climate/
on “Does that use a lot of energy?”Submitted Rendering Markdown Views in Rails as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rendering Markdown Views in Rails as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The views expressed on this blog are not my own as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Declaration of Digital Independence as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some useful Git one-liners as a story · 1 points
HN discussion