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    Evan Hahn

    evanhahn.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2013

    Evan Hahn, a software developer, writes about programming habits, shell tools, dotfiles, JavaScript and small technical curiosities.

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    What HN says

    Commenters praise his writing, which he works to improve, and link his scripts and posts on aliases, OCR, Homebrew telemetry and two-factor auth.

    Stats for nerds
    35HN people shared it
    54linked in comments
    3.7Kstory points
    Apr 2026last shared
    2014people per year2026

    Top posts on HN

    1. 1
      Scripts I wrote that I use all the time
      1 person · 1.3K points · first shared 2025 · 389 comments on HN
    2. 2
      How I build software quickly
      3 people · 386 points · first shared 2025 · 211 comments on HN
    3. 3
      My failed attempt to shrink all NPM packages by 5%
      1 person · 365 points · first shared 2025 · 243 comments on HN
    4. 4
      A decade of dotfiles
      2 people · 342 points · first shared 2022 · 124 comments on HN
    5. 5
      Local LLMs versus offline Wikipedia
      1 person · 308 points · first shared 2025 · 197 comments on HN
    6. 6
      setBigTimeout
      1 person · 211 points · first shared 2024 · 124 comments on HN
    7. 7
      Stopping bad guys from using my open source project (feedback wanted)
      1 person · 122 points · first shared 2025 · 221 comments on HN
    8. 8
      The world's smallest PNG
      4 people · 120 points · first shared 2024 · 44 comments on HN
    9. 9
      Experiment: Making TypeScript immutable-by-default
      1 person · 113 points · first shared 2025 · 137 comments on HN
    10. 10
      My programming beliefs as of July 2024
      3 people · 83 points · first shared 2024 · 33 comments on HN

    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • MetalnemJul 2025

      I love his writing too! I read this post a few days ago and really liked it, so I started going through his older posts. It's no coincidence that his writing is good—he's actively working to improve it: https://evanhahn.com/economist-style-guide-book-takeaways/.

    • lern_too_spelDec 2022

      Homebrew lets you turn off telemetry. If it didn't, it would be quickly forked. https://evanhahn.com/prevent-homebrew-from-gathering-analytics/

    • 27theoOct 2025

      OP links to a long blog post with reasons for using scripts

      https://evanhahn.com/why-alias-is-my-last-resort-for-aliases/

    • theandrewbaileyFeb 2014

      Here's a list of 2 factor auth services, but ungrouped: http://evanhahn.com/tape/two-factor-auth-list/

    • adipidApr 2026

      Cool! Reminds me of Evan's ocr script:

      https://evanhahn.com/mac-ocr-script/

    • batman0219Mar 2014

      or http://evanhahn.com/2fa/

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