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Lars Ingebrigtsen
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Lars Ingebrigtsen writes Random Thoughts, a personal blog at lars.ingebrigtsen.no about programming and productivity. Since 2014, 59 different Hacker News readers have linked it 78 times, most often “Adventures in Netflix”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (24) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Lars Ingebrigtsen's blog for Emacs development posts, including his progress updates on closing Emacs bugs and a guide to getting started with Emacs bug hunting. Gmane history and Netflix posts also come up.
- Recommended for · 3 comments
- A "nice, short intro" to Emacs bug hunting; liked his image editing work; a "great, detailed explanation" of quoted-printable formatting.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 24 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The Sky Won't Fall?
Most-linked posts?
- Adventures in Netflix4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-02-15
- Whatever Happened to News.gmane.org?4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-01-06
- Who is that actor on the screen? Emacs/LLM/Fun Redux3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-09-24
- Closing 45% of the open Emacs bugs3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-08-14
- A Book Tracking Package for Emacs3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-04-15
- /category/emacs/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-11
- Closing another 10% of the open Emacs bugs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-20
- Eplot: A new package for making charts in Emacs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-26
- /2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/comment-page-1/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-07-29
- Emacs and Emojis: A Love Story2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-30
What Hacker News says?
I saw recently twitter complaint about emacs bug filed almost 15 years ago finally getting a wontfix responce(bug was about undo history loss or something). And then they write articles about their new and shiny bug closing process[1]. [1] https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2021/08/14/10x10/
Comment linking /2021/08/14/10x10/
on “Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from Linux”Submitted The End of Gmane? as a story · 489 points
HN discussionI think you're talking about this article https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2019/02/14/adventures-in-netfli...
Comment linking /2019/02/14/adventures-in-netflix/
on “Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days”Submitted Closing 45% of the open Emacs bugs as a story · 425 points
HN discussionI think this is the one you need. Interesting, thanks for the suggestion to search for it! https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2019/02/14/adventures-in-netfli...
Comment linking /2019/02/14/adventures-in-netflix/
on “Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days”Submitted Adventures in Netflix as a story · 290 points
HN discussionThis one? https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2019/02/14/adventures-in-netfli...
Comment linking /2019/02/14/adventures-in-netflix/
on “Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days”Submitted Eplot: A new package for making charts in Emacs as a story · 254 points
HN discussionSame author also wrote a nice, short intro on how to get started with Emacs bug hunting: https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2014/11/13/welcome-new-emacs-de...
Comment linking /2014/11/13/welcome-new-emacs-developers/
on “New GNU Emacs website”Submitted 20×10% as a story · 250 points
HN discussionI know for a fact that if the Emacs developers weren't doing a bang up job, which they are, then I would immediately allocate some of my time to help. Development is going great IMHO. However, the bug count is steadily increasing. Any time invested into emacs is well spent. https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/05/03/emacs-bug-trends/
Comment linking /2016/05/03/emacs-bug-trends/
on “New GNU Emacs website”Submitted Welcome, New Emacs Developers as a story · 195 points
HN discussionThere has been an update in the comments thread: https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/com...
Comment linking /2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/comment-page-1/
on “The End of Gmane?”Submitted My goal of closing 10% of Emacs bugs (2020) as a story · 156 points
HN discussion> Lights candles to summon Jason Scott to ingest it into the Internet Archive And he has responded. https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/com...
Comment linking /2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/comment-page-1/
on “The End of Gmane?”Submitted The Books of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin as a story · 118 points
HN discussionHere is the blog post https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2013/07/26/monetising/
Comment linking /2013/07/26/monetising/
on “The End of Gmane?”Submitted The Only M1 Benchmark That Matters as a story · 97 points
HN discussion> Gmane used to paper over this issue, but Gmane’s availability over the last few years has been spotty, to say the least (it is down as I write this). The Gmane web interface is not just down but shut down for good: https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/com... So this issue won't get better without Debian doing something themselves.
Comment linking /2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/comment-page-1/
on “Winding down my Debian involvement”Submitted News.gmane.org is now news.gmane.io as a story · 88 points
HN discussion> As it happens, I'm the kind of masochist who uses Sublime Text without any plugins for most of my programming, so I find value in letting people stick to their familiar workflow, even if some might see that workflow as somewhere between 'grossly inferior' and 'literally unusable'. I definitely think there are upsides to not tweaking your text editor config endlessly, so I understand your point :) What I meant with…
Comment linking /2015/02/10/eww-now-with-fonts/
on “Git without a forge”Submitted 1999 open Emacs bugs as a story · 85 points
HN discussionThere are a bunch of reviews of the netflix movies on that blog, just look at https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/category/netflix/
Comment linking /category/netflix/
on “Adventures in Netflix”Submitted Perplexingly Book-Learned Emacs as a story · 71 points
HN discussionI didn't know this person before: https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/category/emacs/ A banking CTO who contributes a lot in emacs. I really like the image editing he did. Thank you for posting this. Made my day.
Comment linking /category/emacs/
on “20×10%”Submitted Whatever Happened to News.gmane.org? as a story · 51 points
HN discussionThe authentication/federation problem is what killed the public nntp use even among the non-Outlook users; But it was Outlook that had killed it among corporate and professional users. Those are two independent issues. Gmane[0][1] did bidirectional nntp to mailing-list in 2002; But there's a mismatch, both technical and cultural, with these gateways. Also, in an internal system, the IT department has to be willing t…
Comment linking /2020/01/06/whatever-happened-to-news-gmane-org/
on “Will Apple Mail threaten the newsletter boom?”Submitted Thinking of introducing a mode line with proportional fonts into Emacs (2021) as a story · 43 points
HN discussionThe article notes that this browser was originally written by Lars Ingebrigtsen, probably best known for Gnus. Lars is still hacking away on emacs regularly, you can see his blog posts about his work here: https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/category/emacs/
Comment linking /category/emacs/
on “EWW: Emacs Web Wowser”Submitted What's up with all those equals signs anyway? as a story · 19 points
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