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479 points jgruber | 2 comments | 27 Mar 25 00:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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minimaxir ◴[27 Mar 25 00:36 UTC] No.43489167[source]▶
For posterity, here's a spreadsheet of all Daring Fireball submissions to HN, sorted chronologically: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1A7ljmWbHtFsB4VRJ1Q0d...

From first glance there's still some decent traffic on Daring Fireball submissions, even inside the times Gruber asserts deadweighting.

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jgruber ◴[27 Mar 25 02:04 UTC] No.43489705[source]▶
How then do you explain DF being #3 from 2007-2021 and #72 from 2021-2025? It’s clearly not blacklisted, but clearly is shitlisted, no?
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proline ◴[27 Mar 25 18:23 UTC] No.43496455[source]▶
Have you looked into how much of DF was about Apple and how much was about Donald Trump during the affected time periods? It seems that you write about tech a lot less and politics a lot more. Which is fine, it's your blog! But don't expect tech enthusiasts to automatically be interested in your opinion on immigration or whatever.
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1. CarlitosHighway ◴[31 Mar 25 07:52 UTC] No.43532325[source]▶
This touches on the actual reason, IMHO. A significant number of HN users is obviously leaning towards supporting the cult, and of course do the part which cult members are supposed to do - scour the internet for inconvenient speech and then downvote, barricade, and whine.
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2. xcrunner529 ◴[01 Apr 25 20:16 UTC] No.43550888[source]▶
Yep, all while shouting "free speech, no censorship" and claiming to abide by the constitution. How embarrassing for them.