Female HN Commenter's Credibility

Comments center on defending and discussing the background, achievements, publications, and recent visibility of a prominent female writer and Hacker News contributor, often citing her impressive Wikipedia page, Twitter following, and media appearances.

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OJ e.g HN BoingBoing ycombinator.com STEM google.com PR TV PBS fame wikipedia page woman life pony page famous channel album great article

Sample Comments

thinkloop Feb 17, 2017 View on HN

She's famous and has unique insight, that has quite a bit of value.

onos Oct 16, 2022 View on HN

It got this woman some publicity.

oceanghost Nov 27, 2022 View on HN

She's got someone doing good PR for her. I've been a subscriber for years and never seen her on HN except for the last few months.I'm probably an order of magnitude less intelligent than her, but her arguments seem extremely reasonable to me. She seem to me to be a bridge from the PBS, pop-science mentality to more serious considerations.Also, she's a fox. :-)

genghisjahn Oct 4, 2025 View on HN

Thanks for pointing that out. Read her wikipedia page. What a life.

throwaway729 Mar 3, 2017 View on HN

I'll help you out.Read her bio.She earned it.

malvosenior Dec 5, 2018 View on HN

I think she's perhaps more well known for this type of thing than you realize.

GFK_of_xmaspast Aug 10, 2016 View on HN

I don't know that person at all, but I've noticed that she writes good posts that are worth reading.

kryptiskt Mar 13, 2018 View on HN

I remember this HN comment by her: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3101677

Angostura Oct 22, 2020 View on HN

Just read her Wikipedia page. Wow, what a person.

chadd Nov 16, 2022 View on HN

that's an interesting top-level post... could she write about it anonymously?