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Waldo Jaquith
Personal blog · waldo.jaquith.org/blogpoliticsprogramming
Waldo Jaquith's personal blog at waldo.jaquith.org covers politics and programming. Since 2011, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “On the impracticality of a cheeseburger (2011)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on medieval prices to discuss how hard a Big Mac-style cheeseburger would have been in 1350. The linked post is about the impracticality of making a cheeseburger in that era.
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?
- On the impracticality of a cheeseburger (2011)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-12-02
What Hacker News says?
Well, that's an interesting question. It would have been nearly impossible to make anything resembling a Big Mac in 1350, even if you were a king. And now you can get one for what, $4? https://waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2011/12/impractical-cheesebur...
Comment linking /blog/2011/12/impractical-cheeseburger/
on “Medieval Price List”Submitted "I have come to find out what it's like to be dumb." as a story · 224 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I OCR hundreds of hours of video (2011) as a story · 125 points
HN discussionSubmitted On the impracticality of a cheeseburger (2011) as a story · 56 points
HN discussionSubmitted On the impracticality of a cheeseburger as a story · 11 points
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