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Molly White
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Molly White writes Citation Needed, a personal blog at citationneeded.news about economics and business. Since 2024, 78 different Hacker News readers have linked it 107 times, most often “Review: Chris Dixon's Read Write Own”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Citation Needed features critical coverage of the cryptocurrency industry and of issues in the broader technology world. It is independently published by Molly White, and entirely supported by readers like you.
Most-linked posts?
- Review: Chris Dixon's Read Write Own9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2024-02-07
- Posse: Reclaiming social media in a fragmented world6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2024-09-28
- AI isn't useless. But is it worth it?5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-04-17
- I am my own legal department: the promise and peril of "just go independent"4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-10-26
- Curate your own newspaper with RSS4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-07-31
- Elon Musk and the right's war on Wikipedia4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-01-03
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-07-17
- Migrating from Substack to self-hosted Ghost: the details3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-04-11
- "Wait, not like that": Free and open access in the age of generative AI3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-03-15
- Coinbase's substantial data breach coincides with convenient TOS update3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-05-20
What Hacker News says?
Her reporting is superb and you should follow her: https://www.citationneeded.news/ .
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on “Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance”Submitted "Wait, not like that": Free and open access in the age of generative AI as a story · 126 points
HN discussionSome further writing from her: https://www.citationneeded.news/binance-theft/
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on “Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance”Submitted Molly White: Migrating from Substack to self-hosted Ghost: the details as a story · 71 points
HN discussionSam Bankman-Fried is not a child. https://www.citationneeded.news/sam-bankman-fried-is-not-a-c...
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on “Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison”Submitted Coinbase appears to have violated campaign finance laws with 25M donation as a story · 43 points
HN discussionOne nice thing I've seen is separating out footnotes (additional comments) from references (citations/links to external contents). It's probably not applicable to all blogs, but I like it in Citation Needed, Molly White's blog/newsletter; see https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-60/ as an example.
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on “Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites”Submitted Elon Musk and the right's war on Wikipedia as a story · 41 points
HN discussionGreat timing: https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-84/
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on “Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom”Submitted OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries to "subhuman" men as a story · 37 points
HN discussionRelated, from Molly White's excellent review of Chris Dixon's Read Write Own [1]: > RSS is dead, he repeats endlessly throughout the book.[...] It's profoundly weird to read RSS's obituary as a person who checks her very-much-still-alive feed reader several times a day to get everything from cryptocurrency news to dinner ideas, and who rarely encounters a website that doesn't provide a functional feed. [1] https://w…
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on “RSS is still pretty great”Submitted We can have a different web as a story · 36 points
HN discussionI’m enjoying Citation Needed by Molly White for its coverage of the crypto world: https://www.citationneeded.news
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on “Ask HN: Favorite blog in 2024?”Submitted The Pardon Was the Payoff as a story · 31 points
HN discussionalso, the always thorough Molly White https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-81/
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on “Justice Dept. scales back crypto cases in line with Trump administration memo”Submitted President on Brink of Bailout for Bitcoin as a story · 26 points
HN discussionMolly White, a prolific Wikipedia editor, has written a good overview of how information source reliability is handled in practice: https://www.citationneeded.news/elon-musk-and-the-rights-war... . There's a process for how decisions about source legitimacy and reliability are made, and these "decisions aren’t made lightly and are frequently revisited: there have been over fifty discussions about the Daily Mail’s re…
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on “The Campaign to Delegitimize Wikipedia”Submitted Review: Chris Dixon's Read Write Own as a story · 20 points
HN discussionDon't worry, it happens outside the US too! Just ctrl+f this page for "France": https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-84/
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on “'Crypto king' turned NYC townhouse into torture chamber to gain partner Bitcoin”Submitted Curate your own newspaper with RSS as a story · 18 points
HN discussionMolly White wrote this neat piece a few months ago about migrating from Substack: https://www.citationneeded.news/substack-to-self-hosted-ghos...
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on “Substack Writers Concerned as Subscriptions 'Plummet' Due to Follow Feature”Submitted AI isn't useless. But is it worth it? as a story · 17 points
HN discussionTech Influence Watch site: https://influence.citationneeded.news/ (Blog post: https://www.citationneeded.news/tech-influence-watch/ )
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on “The AI industry is pouring millions into US elections”Submitted Review: Chris Dixon's Read Write Own as a story · 17 points
HN discussionYou can always follow the POSSE pattern [1] (except for platforms that actively punish links to your own site of course). That way you get both the reach and remain independent in terms of content moderation. [1] https://www.citationneeded.news/posse/
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on “Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy”Submitted Mapping Trump's Crypto Empire on Last Week Tonight as a story · 13 points
HN discussionRelated: Tech Influence Watch site: https://influence.citationneeded.news/ ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48632474 ) Blog post: https://www.citationneeded.news/tech-influence-watch/
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on “Crypto firms have spent $189M so far on 2026 US election, report says”Submitted It Matters. I Care as a story · 13 points
HN discussionAnd looking at her main website https://www.citationneeded.news/ there is a tip jar but it doesn't accept crypto. I was expecting her to take at least the major coins like Ada, Eth and BTC, but she's consistent with her views.
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on “Stolen Gemini API key racks up $82,000 in 48 hours”Submitted Trump to launch branded crypto trading application as a story · 12 points
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