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Stories by mtlynch

The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025 (refactoringenglish.com)
HN 692 pts 133 comments by mtlynch Jan 3, 2026 Internet / Digital Culture thread
My eighth year as a bootstrapped founder (mtlynch.io)
HN 318 pts 111 comments by mtlynch Feb 8, 2026 thread
Everyone knows your location, Part 2: try it yourself and share the results (timsh.org)
HN 318 pts 70 comments by mtlynch Apr 17, 2025 thread
Software essays that shaped me (refactoringenglish.com)
HN 308 pts 47 comments by mtlynch Sep 30, 2025 Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
What an unprocessed photo looks like (maurycyz.com)
L 286 pts 19 comments by mtlynch Dec 28, 2025 graphics thread
Four years of running a SaaS in a competitive market (maxrozen.com)
HN 269 pts 90 comments by mtlynch May 6, 2025 thread
Taking over 60k spyware user accounts with SQL injection (ericdaigle.ca)
HN 241 pts 71 comments by mtlynch Jul 3, 2025 Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Bringing a decade old bicycle navigator back to life with open source software (raymii.org)
HN 179 pts 38 comments by mtlynch Jul 26, 2025 Programming (General) thread
How I Reversed Amazon's Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked (blog.pixelmelt.dev)
L 159 pts 31 comments by mtlynch Oct 17, 2025 reversing Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
I'm never going back to Matrix (shkspr.mobi)
L 141 pts 84 comments by mtlynch Jul 29, 2025 rant thread
What Makes the Intro to Crafting Interpreters so Good? (refactoringenglish.com)
L 137 pts 25 comments by mtlynch Nov 19, 2025 educationpractices Productivity / Career / Business thread
Appealing the ban of user friendlysock
L 126 pts 284 comments by mtlynch Aug 30, 2025 meta thread
I noticed yesterday that the user @friendlysock had been banned. I don't know friendlysock personally and am not even sure I've ever interacted with them on here, but I was surprised to see that their account had been banned because I find their contributions substantive and interesting. Checkin...
Gaining Access to Anyones Browser without Them Even Visiting a Website (kibty.town)
L 104 pts 27 comments by mtlynch Sep 20, 2024 browserssecurity Web DevelopmentSecurity / Privacy thread
Boxie - an always offline audio player for my 3 year old (mariozechner.at)
L 102 pts 26 comments by mtlynch Apr 28, 2025 hardware Maker / DIY / Hardware thread
Hold Off on Litestream 0.5.0 (mtlynch.io)
HN 96 pts 18 comments by mtlynch Oct 14, 2025 thread
Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers (kianbradley.com)
L 94 pts 8 comments by mtlynch Jun 17, 2025 programming Programming (General) thread
The Software Essays that Shaped Me (refactoringenglish.com)
L 85 pts 32 comments by mtlynch Sep 30, 2025 programming Programming (General) thread
I'll only buy devices with GrapheneOS (jonashietala.se)
L 84 pts 56 comments by mtlynch Aug 28, 2025 androidprivacy Security / Privacy thread
My First Impressions of Gleam (mtlynch.io)
L 74 pts 31 comments by mtlynch Jun 22, 2025 gleam Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
No Longer My Favorite Git Commit (mtlynch.io)
L 74 pts 56 comments by mtlynch Mar 19, 2025 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread
How to Write Compelling Release Announcements (refactoringenglish.com)
HN 70 pts 49 comments by mtlynch Jun 25, 2025 thread
OpenZFS Bug Ported to Zig (andrewkelley.me)
L 65 pts 32 comments by mtlynch Jul 15, 2025 zig Programming (General) thread
Why does an extraneous build step make my Zig app 10x faster? (mtlynch.io)
L 59 pts 15 comments by mtlynch Mar 19, 2024 performancezig Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Ten years of running every day, visualized (nodaysoff.run)
L 56 pts 22 comments by mtlynch Jul 14, 2025 visualization Design / UX / Visualization thread
My First Impressions of MeshCore Off-Grid Messaging (mtlynch.io)
L 55 pts 18 comments by mtlynch Dec 2, 2025 hardware Maker / DIY / Hardware thread
10 features of D that I love (bradley.chatha.dev)
L 52 pts 17 comments by mtlynch Jul 3, 2025 d Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Underused Techniques for Effective Emails (refactoringenglish.com)
L 51 pts 14 comments by mtlynch Jul 16, 2025 practices Productivity / Career / Business thread
How to Write Blog Posts that Developers Read (refactoringenglish.com)
L 49 pts 22 comments by mtlynch Mar 27, 2025 practices Productivity / Career / BusinessInternet / Digital Culture thread
I once appeared in The Old New Thing (mtlynch.io)
HN 49 pts 22 comments by mtlynch Sep 17, 2025 thread
How long does it take to upgrade an eBook? (shkspr.mobi)
L 48 pts 12 comments by mtlynch Aug 8, 2025 a11y Design / UX / Visualization thread