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This Week in Hax
Personal blog · haxney.orgprogrammingeconomicsculture
This Week in Hax is a personal blog at haxney.org about programming, economics and culture. Since 2009, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Embedding a Web Browser in Emacs”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link these posts as evidence that Emacs can run a terminal and a web browser, pointing to the 'its-alive' post for the browser part. The comments do not judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
My musings on Emacs, economics, technology, and spiders.
Most-linked posts?
- Embedding a Web Browser in Emacs4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2009-09-12
What Hacker News says?
http://www.haxney.org/2009/08/its-alive.html and of course: http://emacs-w3m.namazu.org/
Comment linking /2009/08/its-alive.html
on “JS/UIX - a unix-like OS written in javascript”Submitted Embedding a Web Browser in Emacs as a story · 52 points
HN discussionHere's your web browser http://www.haxney.org/2009/08/its-alive.html
Comment linking /2009/08/its-alive.html
on “Trail blazing innovators - Use Emacs”You're looking at Emacs, which has a terminal, and a browser (well, the browser is a bit trickier to add in: http://www.haxney.org/2009/08/its-alive.html ), among other things.
Comment linking /2009/08/its-alive.html
on “What about a browser(a la Chrome) with command line capabilities?”