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Sam Henry Cliff
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Sam Henry Cliff's personal blog at samhenrycliff.medium.com covers economics, ai and culture. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-18, 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 an HN thread about a Texas town failing poor defendants who have no lawyer. The only comment is a remark about a person in another post by the author, not about the writing.
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.
What Hacker News says?
I do not think that this person is… all there: https://samhenrycliff.medium.com/when-a-gypsy-woman-loses-he...
Comment linking /when-a-gypsy-woman-loses-her-control-she-6c7af32f8092
on “In Jail Without a Lawyer: How a Texas Town Fails Poor Defendants”Submitted How the 2025 US Financial Crisis is Different than 2008 as a story · 61 points
HN discussionTarrant County is just as bad and Sheriff Bill Waybourn takes pride in an attitude of sadism coated under a veneer of Christianity…it’s a fatal place for some…part of my series on my first hand experience being charged with a felony I didn’t commit to satisfy Sheriff Bill’s ego: https://samhenrycliff.medium.com/tarrant-county-sheriff-bill...
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on “In Jail Without a Lawyer: How a Texas Town Fails Poor Defendants”Submitted The AI Agent in the Billing Department of Verizon Is a Mentally Handicapped Thug as a story · 6 points
HN discussionYeah but having a CHOICE in the music typically plays an important role! I mean in jail the only free option Tarrant County offered was Christian music (rap and contemporary) and that stuff was actually irritating to me. I wasn’t actively accessing it - I couldn’t NOT hear it coming through the ventilation system. I wrote about how it’s a form of indoctrination to exploit people’s desire for something that they love…
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on “Study finds solo music listening boosts social well-being”Submitted Indications OpenAI Is the Largest Ponzi Scheme in History as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWhoa cool invocation of the magician Prospero! I recently adapted “The Tempest” as a screenplay while in jail and typed it up: https://samhenrycliff.medium.com/adapting-shakespeares-the-t...
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on “The Prospero Challenge”Submitted Please Stop Bragging About Your Company's Ainess as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI know my comment will get buried but I’m trying an A/B test first with the same prompts I gave NapsterAI. Eventually I’ll write this up too. I wonder how many I can make before I run out of credits. https://samhenrycliff.medium.com/my-surprisingly-fun-ca-h-gr...
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on “Google Flow Music”Submitted Show HN: Adapting Shakespeare's "The Tempest" into a Screenplay (By Hand) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Diary of a Disabled DJ – Entry 2 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Memo from the Interstellar Information Service – Re: Earth's Latest Space "Plan" as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted About My Forza Horizon 6 Plan I Returned the Game Unopened Today (May 20, 2026) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Self-Reliance Means... as a story · 1 points
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