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The Black Liszt
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The Black Liszt is a personal blog at blackliszt.com about programming and health. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link The Black Liszt for essays on computing and the internet, such as "Computers Can Be Understood" and "Four Questions Concerning the Internet". Commenters point to related books by David B. Black and note the author's background.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Fact-based contrarian thoughts about software
What Hacker News says?
I like what you've written here. If you write stuff elsewhere, please put a pointer in your HN profile. Judging by your influences as an architect, I think you would enjoy these books: - Ronald Ross, Principles of the Business Rule Approach . - David B. Black, Wartime Software . If you like this, you'd probably like his other books as well. They each cover a different facet of software development, including QA and…
Comment linking /2020/03/william-occam-inventor-method-for-building-optimal-software.html
on “Computers Can Be Understood”Submitted War-time Software Building as a story · 8 points
HN discussionIn The Value of Colon Cancer Screening ( https://www.blackliszt.com/2023/01/value-of-colon-cancer-scr... ), David B. Black argues that colonoscopies are a net negative, based on the “high confidence result of harm based on millions of patients [1], vs. the nearly identical low-confidence results of benefit from the NordiCC study”. [1] “14.6 major bleeding events per 10,000 colonoscopies (95% CI, 9.4-19.9; 20 studies…
Comment linking /2023/01/value-of-colon-cancer-screening.html
on “Why has America settled on colonoscopies when most of the world has not?”Submitted The Value of Colon Cancer Screening as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere's an HTML, non-Scribd, version of the mentioned book (pamphlet?) by David Black here: https://wn.rudolfsteinerelib.org/RelArtic/BlackDavid/DB1981/... Seems the author does technical due diligence at a VC firm now: https://www.blackliszt.com/2021/10/what-is-technical-due-dil...
Comment linking /2021/10/what-is-technical-due-diligence-for-venture-capital.html
on “Four Questions Concerning the Internet”Submitted Flaws of Big Data as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Be Healthy and Schedule Your Annual Wellness Visit as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Flu Shots Propaganda and Reality as a story · 1 points
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