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Yvo Schaap
Personal blog · yvoschaap.com/weblog · on HN as yvoschaapprogrammingstartupsweb
Yvo Schaap's personal blog at yvoschaap.com covers programming, startups and web. Since 2008, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 35 times, most often “Pmarca long form tweets made readable ”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Yvo Schaap's small web tools and posts, such as an Edge Web Fonts helper, a Product Hunt leaderboard, and a Chain Reaction clone, plus a copy of a Marc Andreessen tweet storm.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Yvo Schaap - Amsterdam builder and entrepreneur, writing about the web since 2005.
Most-linked posts?
- Pmarca long form tweets made readable 4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-05-13
- Wordpress Theme Generator2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-06-27
- Loom (YC W12) leaks private video snippet clips, as a feature2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-04-03
- Google +1 Button Discovered2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-03-31
- Facebook and MySpace security: backdoor wide open, accounts exploitable2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-11-05
What Hacker News says?
I created one for that: http://www.yvoschaap.com/edgefonts/ Prepare for some resource hogging :)
Comment linking /edgefonts/
on “Adobe Edge Web Fonts”Submitted Hijacking the Verified Knowledge Panel as a story · 192 points
HN discussionI caught Google a few years back with the same hijack, but then it was Metrolyrics: https://yvoschaap.com/weblog/misbehavior_by_google_lyrics_on...
Comment linking /weblog/misbehavior_by_google_lyrics_onebox_result
on “Lyrics Site Genius.com Accuses Google of Lifting Its Content”Submitted Facebook paid $4.5K for disclosure of my user account exploit as a story · 117 points
HN discussionVery cool. Didn't think it be such as big deal, since others have already played around with the official Youtube player and API. For example: http://www.yvoschaap.com/youtube/ , http://www.flatvid.com .
Comment linking /youtube/
on “Youtube Instant creator gets instant job offer”Submitted Google +1 Button Discovered as a story · 45 points
HN discussionWe were 'Hunted' for our App (Hucnhapp) on PH this weekend. We were also hunted a few months ago for our iOS Framework (Redbeard). Both times it was by an influencer that was able to get it featured onto the homepage. Even though we were featured on a weekend both times it still led to thousands of visitors to our site (Approximately 7K in the case of Redbeard). Apparently weekdays leads to an order of magnitude gre…
Comment linking /producthunt/
on “Mobile App Launch Checklist”Submitted Hijacking the Verified Knowledge Panel as a story · 34 points
HN discussionOriginal tweet storm can be found here: http://www.yvoschaap.com/pmarca/
Comment linking /pmarca/
on “Response to Marc Andreessen on Secular Stagnation”Submitted Marc Andreessen tweet essays as a story · 22 points
HN discussionDirect link: http://www.yvoschaap.com/weblog/the_google_1_button_discover...
Comment linking /weblog/the_google_1_button_discovered
on “Someone Just Found an Embeddable Google +1 Button - It Works”Submitted Latest LLM models tested against a simple question as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThe researcher is called Yvo Schaap (not Schapp!), a dutch guy, here is the original article: http://www.yvoschaap.com/index.php/weblog/facebook_myspace_a...
Comment linking /index.php/weblog/facebook_myspace_accounts_hijacked/
on “Massive Facebook and MySpace Flash Vulnerability Exposes User Data”Submitted Loom (YC W12) leaks private video snippet clips, as a feature as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYou can do the all time bit - there's a leaderboard built with the PH API: http://www.yvoschaap.com/producthunt/
Comment linking /producthunt/
on “Product Hunt Gets Social with Twitter-Like Profiles, Following, Notifications”Submitted Producthunt.co leaderboard as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttp://www.yvoschaap.com/wpthemegen/ I found this off-the-cuff with a few google queries, but trust me man I feel your pain; this might not be the solution you're looking for if you know some CSS and HTML; otherwise, your welcome. Honestly I'd browse the plethora of free themes available at http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/ ; find one you like, figure out the themes image dimensions then Photoshop your site accord…
Comment linking /wpthemegen/
on “Ask YC: Can you recommend a Wordpress Designer?”Submitted Advanced LLM AI Models vs. a Simple Question as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI did https://yvoschaap.com/youtube.html
Comment linking /youtube.html
on “YouTube's crackdown on ad blockers intensifies”Submitted Marc Andreessen on big problems as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis is far more impressive, Chain Reaction (aka Boomshine) in javascript: http://www.yvoschaap.com/chainrxn/
Comment linking /chainrxn/
on “JavaScript Pong (Spartan Ajax)”Submitted PHP and Mysql exploit tips for lazy programmers. as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wordpress Theme Generator as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Challenge accepted: not a single line of code written by hand as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Loom leaks private video snippets as feature as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google's supervising ranking algorithm exposed as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exposing product trends using Product Hunt as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pmarca long form tweets made readable as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Crawling & indexing Airbnb city' hosts recommendations. as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 2012's most mentioned startups, VC's and incubators on TechCrunch. as a story · 2 points
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