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Snipe.Net
Personal blog · snipe.netstartupsbusiness
Snipe.Net is a personal blog at snipe.net about startups and business. Since 2009, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-06-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this personal blog's older posts on speaking about women in technology, WoW versus bank password security, and a Chuck Norris joke about compiling Linux. The comments only cite the posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
http://www.snipe.net/about/ edit: removed cheap shot about motivation.
Comment linking /about/
on “Please Stop Asking Me to Speak About Women in Technology”Submitted Please Stop Asking Me to Speak About Women in Technology as a story · 127 points
HN discussionSee also: https://snipe.net/2014/05/09/please-stop-asking-me-to-speak-...
Comment linking /2014/05/09/please-stop-asking-me-to-speak-about-women-in-technology/
on “The phpCE 2019 conference in Dresden has been cancelled and won't be continued”Submitted Choosing a Model for Your Open Source Business (2017) as a story · 48 points
HN discussionrelated: http://www.snipe.net/2008/12/warcraft-security-better-than-b... (i think i actually remember a better article about that, that went into more detail why WoW has better security than banks, but I can't find it. I probably saw the article that I am thinking of on Hacker News)
Comment linking /2008/12/warcraft-security-better-than-banking-security/
on “Why Canada’s banks have weaker passwords than Twitter or Google”Submitted An Open Letter to Rackspace Cloud Hosting as a story · 27 points
HN discussionOstensibly, yes. But in practice, Chuck Norris compiles his own personal fork of Linux by hand. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20110818104209/http://dearandroi... [2] https://snipe.net/2009/07/16/if-chuck-norris-had-designed-li...
Comment linking /2009/07/16/if-chuck-norris-had-designed-linux/
on “More ads in Windows 11 Start Menu could be last straw for some”Submitted Web Usability Blunders That Still Piss Me Off as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Cloud is a Lie as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on GitHub Giving Free Private Repos to Women as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Welding, Failure, and Self-Sabotage as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Hardest Part of Running a Startup Isn't What I Thought It Would Be as a story · 1 points
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