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The Apiarist is a personal blog at theapiarist.org about science. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Barcoding Bees (2020)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2024–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2025

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

Why HN links it

Linked in a thread on insects tested for cognition, for a post on barcoding bees. The blog covers beekeeping and bee science, and the comment cites it only as a pointer to bee DNA barcoding.

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.

The science, art, and practice of sustainable beekeeping ... so much more than honey

Most-linked posts?

  1. Barcoding Bees (2020)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-17

What Hacker News says?

  1. There's something called a bCode... https://theapiarist.org/barcoding-bees/

    Comment linking /barcoding-bees/

    on “Fukushima insects tested for cognition”
  2. Submitted Barcoding Bees (2020) as a story · 84 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Going the Distance as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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