a single source, nothing corroborates it
Treat a hostile thread as proof people read it
Attention is the scarce input, and a post being torn apart in the comments means a lot of people read it closely. One author counts a piece that drew heavy criticism there as a win on the only measure that matters to him.
The method
- 01
A post that gets torn apart on Hacker News still succeeded, because attention is the scarce input and hostility means people actually read it.
What it returned
His June piece titled Claude Code is My Computer was heavily criticised there and he counts that as a win
Sources
- ClawdbotPeter Steinberger · steipete.me · Oracle · 2026-01-02
the second source
Three plays a week, for the phase you are in
No roundup of links, no news. Three tactics more than one builder arrived at separately, with the numbers each one returned and the disagreements left in.
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