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thetypist.com is a personal blog at thetypist.com about productivity, hardware and culture. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Chrome-free”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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10mentions?
3HN people?
2013–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 9 in 2014

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

Why HN links it

Linked in a thread on laptop battery use, where one commenter suggests Safari is more energy efficient and cites the post, whose URL suggests it covers going Chrome-free. Only a bare link, so the post's content is inferred.

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. Chrome-free
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-07-12

What Hacker News says?

  1. Have you tried Safari? I hear it is more energy efficient: http://thetypist.com/482/chromefree/ Allowing Flash to autoplay is wasteful as well.

    Comment linking /482/chromefree/

    on “Tracking two years of laptop battery use, sampled every minute”
  2. Submitted "For the past two months, I’ve been living in the world of keystroke tax." as a story · 18 points

    HN discussion
  3. I agree, especially with #2. In fact, I explain why I think Medium is actually a magazine , not a service (like Svbtle, Blogger, Wordpress.com) in this post: http://thetypist.com/329/medium-magazine/ "One shouldn’t compare Medium with services like WordPress.com because, while successfully touted as such, Medium isn’t a service. It’s a magazine. The only “service” in Medium is the service that (mostly) unpaid writer…

    Comment linking /329/medium-magazine/

    on “A Platform and Blogging Tool, Medium Charms Writers”
  4. Submitted Adblock and Collective Punishment as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Chrome-free as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Four Years in Apple's Ecosystem: An Expenses Report as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Medium, The Magazine as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Svbtle vs. Medium as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted The Future of Information as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted The Sum of All Reasons as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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