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Système D

Personal blog · blog.systemed.netdataculture

Système D is a personal blog at blog.systemed.net about data and culture. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “An ingenious vintage German cycle map (2014)”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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11mentions?
5HN people?
2014–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2018

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for its posts on mapping, such as a map of street steepness. The one comment only points to a similar earlier post from the blog, with no judgement of 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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. An ingenious vintage German cycle map (2014)
    3 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2018-07-28

What Hacker News says?

  1. Doctor_Fegg · 2018-09-10
    Similar posting discussed recently: http://blog.systemed.net/post/10 (discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17632378 ).

    Comment linking /post/10

    on “A map showing the steepness of streets (2013)”
  2. Doctor_Fegg · 2018-07-27

    Submitted What OpenStreetMap can be as a story · 192 points

    HN discussion
  3. Tomte · 2018-07-28

    Submitted An ingenious vintage German cycle map (2014) as a story · 149 points

    HN discussion
  4. altilunium · 2024-08-15

    Submitted The Early Days of OpenStreetMap as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  5. colinprince · 2020-11-19

    Submitted An ingenious vintage German cycle map (2014) as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  6. Tomte · 2022-04-16

    Submitted An ingenious vintage German cycle map. (2014) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. chippy · 2015-06-29

    Submitted Introducing Tilemaker: OpenStreetMap vector tiles without the stack as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Doctor_Fegg · 2014-10-24

    Submitted OpenStreetMap ten years on, and why it's time for a fresh slate as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Doctor_Fegg · 2014-04-22

    Submitted Building cycle.travel's bike directions with Open Source Routing Machine as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. Tomte · 2021-01-09

    Submitted An ingenious vintage German cycle map. (2014) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Tomte · 2021-08-10

    Submitted An ingenious vintage German cycle map. (2014) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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