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Nat Friedman
Personal blog · nat.org/blogstartupscultureprogramming
Nat Friedman's personal blog at nat.org covers startups, culture and programming. Since 2008, 43 different Hacker News readers have linked it 52 times, most often “Nat Friedman”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (15) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Nat Friedman's blog for posts on company-building and his Dashboard desktop prototype, plus his minimal homepage CSS. Some also point to his puzzle page, which led to the Vesuvius Challenge discussion.
- Recommended for · 2 comments
- One commenter said the post lays out clearly that a cheap landing page is achievable; another said they often reference the site's minimal CSS when styling thei
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 15 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A few things about me
Most-linked posts?
- Nat Friedman8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2022-07-17
- /dashboard/5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2010-03-05
- Everyone dials in 3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-04-24
- Instant Company2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-06-16
- How to become a hacker (2005)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-10-29
- Nat Friedman joins Xamarin as CEO2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-05-25
- Hiring tech lead to help solve major historical puzzle2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-24
- Nerds and Jocks2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-07-04
What Hacker News says?
Probably Daniel Gross picked it up from Nat Friedman? 1. Nat Friedman has this site: https://nat.org/ 2. They made this together: https://nfdg.com/ 3. And then this: https://andromeda.ai/ 4. Now we have https://ssi.inc/ If you look at the (little) CSS in all of the above sites you'll see there's what seems to be a copy/paste block. The Nat and SSI sites even have the same "typo" indentation.
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on “Safe Superintelligence Inc.”Submitted Instant Company as a story · 255 points
HN discussionWow! Congratulations Nat Friedman and Miguel de Icaza (of Ximian fame). I remember reading this blogpost like it was yesterday: http://nat.org/blog/2011/05/xamarin/
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on “Microsoft Acquires Xamarin”Submitted AIGrant: Get $5,000 for your open source AI project as a story · 154 points
HN discussionThe point of https://patrickcollison.com/fast is not that everything has to be fast, but that you can probably do it faster than you think. Quoting https://nat.org/ : "time is the denominator"
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on “Slow”Submitted Disband the TSA now as a story · 96 points
HN discussionI really like the minimal CSS on Nat’s website, I frequently reference it when styling my own content: https://nat.org
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on “58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere”Submitted We have an API (Please give us a database) as a story · 96 points
HN discussionI'm not sure what that has to do with the most recent injunction against the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. The judge issued the injunction on the strength of U.S. Patent 8,086,604, which "provides convenient access to items of information that are related to various descriptors input by a user, by means of a unitary interface which is capable of accessing information in a variety of locations, through a number of different…
Comment linking /dashboard/
on “#BoycottApple trending on Google plus due to Galaxy Nexus ban”Submitted Hiring tech lead to help solve major historical puzzle as a story · 74 points
HN discussionI mean, to be fair, it seems to be the prevailing culture in GitHub for a while now, to quote Nat Friedman[1]; "It's important to do things fast . . . Going fast makes you focus on what's important; there's no time for bullshit". [1] https://nat.org/
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on “Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub”Submitted Everyone dials in as a story · 66 points
HN discussionThing is, these days it would probably only take a small outlay of cash (or finding the right, desperate pro-bono designer) to get a fairly good landing page. Nat Friedman of Xamarin laid this out pretty clearly in a blog post [1]. Just a damn themeforest template would do wonders. [1] http://nat.org/blog/2011/06/instant-company/
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on “LibreOffice hits 4.0”Submitted Nerds and Jocks as a story · 58 points
HN discussionKinda remind me of Gnome Dashboard: http://nat.org/dashboard/ Ah, those were the days ;)
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on “Rapportive - making excellent service scale”Submitted Here's a good reason why you should get rid of things you don't use. as a story · 54 points
HN discussionA very well reasoned comment from the article itself! http://nat.org/blog/2010/03/we-have-an-api/comment-page-1/#c...
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on “We have an API (Please give us a database)”Submitted Startup Visa as a story · 30 points
HN discussionI had forgotten about what ended up in his thesis. It's linked to from the Remembrance Agent site if anyone else is interested: http://www.bradleyrhodes.com/Papers/rhodes-phd-JITIR.pdf (PDF) "Implicit query" is another term for it. On the desktop side, one of the most realized solutions was the Dashboard prototype: http://nat.org/dashboard/ I've long argued that designing multi-modal interfaces is where applications…
Comment linking /dashboard/
on “Build your own Google Glass”Submitted Really cool bash one-liners by Nat Friedman as a story · 25 points
HN discussionYour point about the system watching what you do and doing something useful with that information reminded me of some work a few years back by Nat Friedman on "Dashboard" that had me pretty excited at the time: http://nat.org/dashboard/ It was a shame to not actually see that go anywhere other than the prototype stage.
Comment linking /dashboard/
on “GNOME 3: The Future of the Desktop ”Submitted No Waiting Room as a story · 18 points
HN discussionArticle in a similar vein: http://nat.org/blog/2009/07/nerds-and-jocks/
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on “Death of an Engineer: Attention-Seeking has Killed Invention”Submitted Everyone dials in - a trick for running distributed team meetings as a story · 9 points
HN discussionIt's to bad that this doesn't run as a daemon that can simply be queried through an API. Back in the day I remember a linux project called ... dashboard? (found it! http://nat.org/dashboard/ ) That seemed like a great tool. For whatever it got scrapped and it's guts turned into Beagle. Since I no longer use linux on the desktop it's hard for me to evaluate, but it looks like it's now a tool similar to OSX's Spotligh…
Comment linking /dashboard/
on “The Remembrance Agent ”Submitted Announcing the First AI Grant Fellows as a story · 8 points
HN discussion> And is he pleasantly surprised at the 250ish Euros or did he consider it too high? He was very pleasantly surprised. In response to a comment on his post, the author wrote: "According to newchoicehealth.com, an abdominal ultrasound in a major American city costs $340 on average at the cheapest service providers. At hospitals it’s much more expensive – $1350 at the Massachusetts General Hospital. And that’s just th…
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on “No Waiting Room”Submitted Nat Friedman as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThis was the outcome of https://nat.org/puzzle HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33735503 Some did guess correctly that it was about decoding the Herculaneum papyri
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on “Vesuvius Challenge”Submitted Everyone dials in as a story · 6 points
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