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world.hey.com is a personal blog at world.hey.com about programming, writing and culture. Since 2021, 848 different Hacker News readers have linked it 1,673 times, most often “DHH – As I Remember London”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Rarely recommended · 3 of 40 sampled comments recommend it, 6 are critical?
Why HN links it
HN readers link DHH's world.hey.com posts to back points about Rails, leaving the cloud and Basecamp, and to cite his politics. Few comments praise them; many call his London post ethnonationalist.
- Recommended for · 3 comments
- Called 'another good one' on leaving the cloud, 'good perspectives' on software estimates, and cloud costs 'summed up pretty well'.
- Criticised for · 6 comments
- Says the London post wants fewer non-white people, is ethnonationalist, not neutral nostalgia, and racist.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- DHH – As I Remember London51 people · 80 mentions · first linked 2025-09-15
- Wolves, Sheep, and Gypsies21 people · 25 mentions · first linked 2026-07-21
- Modern web apps without JavaScript bundling or transpiling21 people · 21 mentions · first linked 2021-08-12
- DHH: Let It All Out19 people · 20 mentions · first linked 2021-04-28
- 37signals Leaves the Cloud18 people · 18 mentions · first linked 2022-10-19
- I won't let you pay me for my open source14 people · 15 mentions · first linked 2021-12-14
- The waning days of DEI's dominance14 people · 14 mentions · first linked 2022-11-21
- Programmers should stop celebrating incompetence13 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2021-11-25
- The bubble has popped for unprofitable software companies11 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2022-11-09
- Changes at Basecamp10 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2021-04-26
What Hacker News says?
This is super fun! I tried something similar a few months ago using: https://websim.com/ Had it do HN main feed, HN jobs and Product Hunt. It didn’t follow consistent styling but did generate articles and comments for each post. Some screenshots are in this post: https://world.hey.com/haws/the-ai-time-machine-7833669d
Comment linking /haws/the-ai-time-machine-7833669d
on “Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now”Submitted Changes at Basecamp as a story · 883 points
HN discussionPerhaps this might help you understand my point: https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-spells-are-spent-beaa675b
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on “Trump wins presidency for second time”Submitted Aging programmer as a story · 596 points
HN discussionhttps://world.hey.com/dhh/basecamp-s-new-etiquette-regarding... > Therefore, we’re asking everyone, including Jason and me, to refrain from using our company Basecamp or HEY to discuss societal politics at work effective immediately. > This includes everything from sharing political stories in campfire, using message threads to elucidate others on political beliefs that go beyond the topic directly, or performing po…
Comment linking /dhh/basecamp-s-new-etiquette-regarding-societal-politics-at-work-b44bef69
on ““About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today””Submitted The Framework Desktop is a beast as a story · 498 points
HN discussion> and tinged as it is with racial and xenophobic overtones This appears to be a kneejerk reaction that's separated from the facts of this situation. According to DHH: "It's not a list of, say, primarily Asian names. Out of the 78 names listed on the last version we were able to recover, just 6 names appear to be Asian." [0] The overwhelming need to connect anything distasteful to racism or xenophobia is a relatively…
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on ““About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today””Submitted 37signals Leaves the Cloud as a story · 285 points
HN discussion> The long-running existence of the "Best Names Ever" list that [employee 1] described yesterday represents a serious, collective, and repeated failure at Basecamp. One that we need to learn from together by transparently tracing its origin and history. > Not only was it disrespectful to our customers, and a breach of basic privacy expectations, but it was also counter to creating an inclusive workplace. Nobody shou…
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on ““About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today””Submitted Google suffers from a digital petro curse as a story · 271 points
HN discussion> banning any DEI initiatives That's not actually what they've said though, is it? They're moving responsibility for DEI back into HR (they call it People Ops)[0]. I have pretty mixed feelings on HR as a company function[1] and choice of profession, but that's far from a ban on DEI initiatives. (I don't dispute your comment that committees have been dissolved.) [0] The original "Changes at Basecamp" blog post litera…
Comment linking /jason/changes-at-basecamp-7f32afc5
on ““About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today””Submitted Disasters I've seen in a microservices world as a story · 256 points
HN discussionIf you're looking for people with moderately thick skin who don't seek to find offense everywhere, a good place to start is to avoid the folks who wrote this blog post: > every discussion remotely related to politics, advocacy, or society at large quickly spins away from pleasant. You shouldn't have to wonder if staying out of it means you're complicit, or wading into it means you're a target. These are difficult en…
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on ““About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today””Submitted I was wrong, we need crypto as a story · 240 points
HN discussionWhat basecamp did "represents a serious, collective, and repeated failure at Basecamp [...] counter to creating an inclusive workplace. Nobody should think that maintaining such a list is okay or sanctioned behavior here."[1] [1] https://world.hey.com/dhh/let-it-all-out-78485e8e
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on ““About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today””Submitted Omarchy Is Out as a story · 215 points
HN discussionAggressively? DHH published his response here: https://world.hey.com/dhh/let-it-all-out-78485e8e In particular he wrote: > We have to be careful to celebrate that progress proportionally, though. I was dismayed to see the argument advanced in text and graphics on [Employee 1’s] post that this list should be considered part of a regime that eventually could lead to genocide. That's just not an appropriate or proporti…
Comment linking /dhh/let-it-all-out-78485e8e
on ““About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today””Submitted It's five grand a day to miss our S3 exit as a story · 187 points
HN discussionI'm not sure where you read all this. In his post [1] DHH says: 1) that the list was a mistake and that they've learned and moved on. 2) that "I was dismayed to see the argument advanced in text and graphics on [Employee 1’s] post that this list should be considered part of a regime that eventually could lead to genocide. That's just not an appropriate or proportionate comparison to draw" 3) that "the vast majority"…
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on ““About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today””Submitted I'm a Tech Lead, and nobody listens to me. What should I do? as a story · 162 points
HN discussionDHH's own blog post seems to contradict your account. https://world.hey.com/dhh/let-it-all-out-78485e8e
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on ““About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today””Submitted Apple Rejects the Hey Calendar from Their App Store as a story · 147 points
HN discussionI had a different interpretation. I'm not disagreeing with you because anyone outside of the company is left kind of guessing, but it's making me realize that people's varying reaction might be different interpretations of what Basecamp's "no politics" rule really means. I've read everything DHH and Jason Fried have posted in the last few days, and my impression that politics directly related to the company and prod…
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on ““About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today””Submitted DHH: Let It All Out as a story · 98 points
HN discussionI believe the profit-sharing plan is new , announced as part of these "changes". > In addition, we recently introduced a 10% profit sharing plan If so, it's hard to say for sure how lucrative it would be either, especially if you aren't privy to the details of what they say they are offering. But if so, nobody's gotten it already, you'd have to stay to get it. https://world.hey.com/jason/changes-at-basecamp-7f32afc5
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on ““About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today””Submitted All-In on Omarchy at 37signals as a story · 78 points
HN discussionThe CEO's post is presumably one-sided, but AFAIK contains all the details: https://world.hey.com/dhh/let-it-all-out-78485e8e
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on ““About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today””Submitted Open source is neither a community nor a democracy as a story · 77 points
HN discussionI think it would depend on how much I liked my job. My sense is that DHH is just a terrible boss. Note the "changes" [1] are not just "no politics" but also "no more committees" (of any kind at all; that is, no authority or responsibility except individually along line-of-report hieararchy), no more 360 degree reviews (no way to formally give feedback to your boss), and no more bringing up past decisions you disagre…
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on ““About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today””Submitted A Writer's Ruby as a story · 69 points
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