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Suw Charman-Anderson and Kevin Charman-Anderson

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Suw Charman-Anderson and Kevin Charman-Anderson writes Strange Attractor, a personal blog at charman-anderson.com about business and culture. Since 2010, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-08-20, and you can follow it by feed.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2010

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Why HN links it

HN readers link this piece arguing that apps are behind a spike in traffic deaths. The one comment on it disputes the evidence and the reasoning behind the claim.

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.

Thoughts on social media, business and journalism from Suw and Kevin Charman-Anderson

What Hacker News says?

  1. apsec112 · 2016-11-16
    Headline: "Blame Apps" Evidence given in the article: - "Safety experts say" that it's true. The experts are not named or quoted. No evidence or reasoning is given to support the claim. - Highway fatalities are up this year. However, they're still significantly down from 2007, when the iPhone was first introduced. Mobile has been booming for almost a decade - if we should "blame apps", why hasn't it been a concern b…

    Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/newspaperadsdecline2.jpg

    on “Biggest Spike in Traffic Deaths in 50 Years? Blame Apps”
  2. mbesto · 2011-10-28

    Submitted When Commenting Systems Go Bad as a story · 42 points

    HN discussion
  3. ilamont · 2010-04-04

    Submitted IPad app pricing: A last act of insanity by delusional content companies as a story · 39 points

    HN discussion
  4. jsm386 · 2010-10-14

    Submitted Are journalisms start-ups being appropriately funded? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. bensummers · 2010-10-13

    Submitted Are journalisms start-ups being appropriately funded? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. bensummers · 2010-02-11

    Submitted Google Buzz: Not fit for purpose as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. atularora · 2011-03-19

    Submitted Twitter: Building a business-critical tool, then breaking it as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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