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Tautvilas Mečinskas
Personal blog · tautvilas.medium.comprogrammingeconomics
Tautvilas Mečinskas's personal blog at tautvilas.medium.com covers programming and economics. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “The age of Pump and Dump software”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this author's posts on whether programming counts as engineering, decentralized syndication, and a token pump and dump. The comments only cite or link them and do not judge the writing.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- The age of Pump and Dump software2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-27
What Hacker News says?
It depends what kind of programming you do if it can be called engineering or not. Most of software development is not engineering. The core difference in my mind is that engineering implies transferring abstracted design to physical reality (you have to understand physical limitations and constraints to do that). Programming most of the time is producing abstraction mechanisms that are quite detached from physical…
Comment linking /engineering-free-programming-is-the-future-of-software-development-c892a6c8e3b1
on “Are We Really Engineers? (2021)”Submitted The age of Pump and Dump software as a story · 40 points
HN discussionUrl changed from https://tautvilas.medium.com/decentralized-syndication-the-m... , which points to this.
Comment linking /decentralized-syndication-the-missing-internet-protocol-209cb7bd6341
on “Decentralized Syndication – The Missing Internet Protocol”Submitted Inflationary cryptocurrency and domain identity: A recipe for a social network as a story · 5 points
HN discussionHype created by bots on twitter for marketing $CLAWD token, which is probably a pump and dump This was on HN front page: https://tautvilas.medium.com/software-pump-and-dump-c8a9a73d... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46780065
Comment linking /software-pump-and-dump-c8a9a73d313b
on “Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot”Submitted It is time to create a decentralized public social network as a story · 2 points
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