Posts that Hacker News liked

The following is a list of my articles and projects that I think made it to the front page of Hacker News (they each got at least 29 points, and as I write this there's a post on the front page with 29 points).

• How to rebuild social media on top of RSS
  316 points, 183 comments
• Move fast, but understand the problem first
  306 points, 51 comments. This one hit #1; my life's greatest achievement--I had people emailing me to say congratulations. Not that it was that great of a post.
• 2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026
  280 points, 243 comments
• I changed my mind about advertising
  215 points, 457 comments
• Biff.graph: structure your Clojure codebase as a queryable graph
  147 points, 32 comments
• A New Take on RSS
  139 points, 33 comments
• Biff.core: system composition for Clojure web apps
  138 points, 33 comments
• Biff – a batteries-included web framework for Clojure
  137 points, 23 comments
• Should you Work Hard? (2019)
  107 points, 160 comments
• Show HN: Biff – Self-hosted Firebase alternative for Clojure
  103 points, 19 comments
• Building a CRUD App with Datomic Cloud Ions
  100 points, 26 comments
• Structuring large Clojure codebases with Biff
  98 points, 8 comments
• Show HN: Findka – Personalized recommendations for any type of content
  96 points, 45 comments
• Show HN: Lagukan, a highly personalized music service
  95 points, 76 comments
• Biff tutorial: build a chat app with Clojure
  81 points, 7 comments
• A mental model for decentralization
  78 points, 77 comments
• The messy future of social media
  75 points, 26 comments
• Programmers and Musicians
  70 points, 27 comments. My first post to hit the top page.
• Yakread's Ranking Algorithm
  68 points, 13 comments
• Writing your Clojure tests in EDN files
  67 points, 4 comments
• Show HN: The Sample – newsletters curated for you with machine learning
  67 points, 32 comments
• A recommender system in 30 lines of Clojure
  57 points, 1 comment
• Show HN: Essays curated for you with machine learning
  53 points, 7 comments
• Algorithms don't cause filter bubbles, people do
  52 points, 70 comments
• Philosophy of Biff
  49 points, 23 comments
• Biff.fx: lightweight effects system for Clojure
  31 points, 0 comments
• Show HN: Biff 2.0 (Clojure web framework)
  29 points, 0 comments

27 total, six of which are Show HNs. Of the three posts that had more comments than points, two are about advertising.

Some of the links from the HN posts were broken, so I've changed the links here. Too lazy to set up redirects in some cases, unfortunately. I've also removed links for most of the Show HNs since the projects they discussed are defunct. I merged The Sample into Yakread, so it kind of lives on.