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Hintjens
Personal blog · hintjens.com · on HN as PieterHprogrammingculturephilosophy
Hintjens is a personal blog at hintjens.com about programming, culture and philosophy. Since 2013, 139 different Hacker News readers have linked it 214 times, most often “A Protocol for Dying”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Sometimes recommended · 13 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Hintjens' blog for his essays on programming, society and psychology, and his posts on dying, which readers call insightful and moving.
- Recommended for · 13 comments
- One says 'I was moved by his blog post'; another calls one post 'absolutely great', and a third 'excellent'.
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?
- A Protocol for Dying17 people · 17 mentions · first linked 2016-04-22
- Why Optimistic Merging Works Better16 people · 17 mentions · first linked 2015-11-16
- The Psychopath Code14 people · 21 mentions · first linked 2016-06-21
- Confessions of a Necromancer12 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2016-09-21
- /books7 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2016-04-22
- Requiem for GitHub6 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2016-02-07
- The End of Software Versions6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2015-05-20
- Fighting Cancer6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2016-08-18
- /5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2013-12-31
- Why I've Quit Twitter (2016)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-03-26
What Hacker News says?
Tribute to Hintjens' great work and ideas. Man is like the Bernstein of enterprise software with great balance of unconventional design, correctness, performance, and innovation. Here's a list of some of his work for those interested: A great write-up on his theory of model-driven development and the tech that underpinned most of iMatix: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c... . Their website…
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on “A Protocol for Dying”Submitted A Protocol for Dying as a story · 1610 points
HN discussionCode Connected got me interested in programming again. http://hintjens.com/blog:30
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on “A Protocol for Dying”Submitted Fighting Cancer as a story · 497 points
HN discussionAnd do yourself a favour and buy his highly insightful and all-around great-to-read books: http://hintjens.com/books
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on “A Protocol for Dying”Submitted I wrote a small piece on planned death as a story · 405 points
HN discussionThis experience is often available for humans too (even in countries without risk of medical bills bankrupting oneself) - it largely depends on how far the religious right has embedded itself in government. Pieter Hintjens (of ZeroMQ and AMQP fame) chose this option when diagnosed with terminal cancer, and wrote about it extensively at [1] and [2]. [1]: http://hintjens.com/blog:116 [2]: http://hintjens.com/blog:115
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on “The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company”Submitted Living, in Limbo as a story · 364 points
HN discussionI was moved by his blog post, few weeks back, on HN. As a token of my respect, I just bought his book, The psychopath code[1] [1] http://hintjens.com/blog:_psychopaths
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on “I'm choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words.”Submitted Confessions of a Necromancer as a story · 313 points
HN discussionHis post on living systems is absolutely great, just discovered thanks to his thread... http://hintjens.com/blog:74
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on “I'm choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words.”Submitted Steps Towards Happiness (2015) as a story · 230 points
HN discussion> His writing is just what I needed right now, at this time in my life. Particularly about how to be happy. This is the particular blog post in which he talks about 'how to be happy' http://hintjens.com/blog:99
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on “I'm choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words.”Submitted So Far, So Good as a story · 162 points
HN discussionBooks by Pieter Hintjens [0]. [0] http://hintjens.com/books
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on “I'm choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words.”Submitted Requiem for GitHub as a story · 121 points
HN discussionYou may want to read his The Ultimate Lessons at: http://hintjens.com/blog:125
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on “I'm choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words.”Submitted How to design perfect software products (2013) as a story · 93 points
HN discussionFighting Cancer http://hintjens.com/blog:123 Heart-wrenching.
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on “I'm choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words.”Submitted Pack Hunters of the Silicon Savannas as a story · 89 points
HN discussionI don't know you, Just read http://hintjens.com/blog:115 Thanks for the your contributions and sharing the journey. To fellow HN users: Please check out "Think of the Children" and donate if possible. thanks!
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on “I'm choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words.”Submitted Rules for Open Source Success as a story · 89 points
HN discussionSad to read this. And actually also a bit surprised, considering that 2 weeks ago he posted an article that mentioned "This is a short book more than an article. I'll continue to revise it over time, according to your comments." http://hintjens.com/blog:125
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on “I'm choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words.”Submitted The End of Software Versions as a story · 67 points
HN discussionYou should probably read the back story before you hop on your moral horse. He has terminal cancer that's metastasized in both of his lungs. http://hintjens.com/blog:115
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on “I'm choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words.”Submitted Codes of Misconduct as a story · 62 points
HN discussionContext: http://hintjens.com/blog:115 and other recent posts by Pieter.
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on “I'm choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words.”Submitted Securing ZeroMQ: CurveZMQ protocol and implementation as a story · 42 points
HN discussionThe late author of ZeroMQ, Pieter Hintjens, advocated for a practice called Optimistic Merging[1], where contributions would be merged immediately, without reviewing the code or waiting for CI results. So your approach of having lax merging guidelines is not far off. While I can see the merits this has in building a community of contributors who are happy to work on a project, I always felt that it opens the project…
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on “XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable."”Submitted The Cretan Method (2015) as a story · 24 points
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