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by mtlynch 2y ago
I thought I'd have an easier time! I had two posts[0, 1] I was super confident would be a match for HN and two others[2, 3] that I thought had a so-so chance. They've all flopped except I got lucky that someone else submitted this
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Don't you do a bunch of original security research? [0,1,2] If there's a descriptor you'd prefer, I'm happy to update it. I'm just going by what I know of the blog and a review of the most popular posts. [0] https:
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by mtlynch 2y ago
You're still my favorite of the three of you.
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Ah, you're right. Thanks! Fixed: https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data/pull/3...
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Author here. Thanks for letting me know. Fixed now: https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data/pull/3...
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Author here. They're about 95% accurate, so not completely incorrect. I think the value of the correct ones is higher than the few incorrect ones. I manually review and fix them, but for just a fun tool, it's not practical to writ
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Ah, I didn't realize that your blog had moved. I've merged them, so now you're #74 of all time.
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Yeah, for blogs that don't have a unique domain, I have to fix them by hand. I've just fixed Chris Siebenmann's. Thanks!
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by mtlynch 2y ago
He is, but he's not in the top 100. He would be, but he splits his articles across different blogs. For authors that just change domains (e.g., christine.website and xeiaso.net), I combine scores, but if they maintain different writing
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Author here. I tried submitting this as a Show HN a couple times but it didn't take, so I'm happy to see some interest! I caught this just before bed, but I'm happy to take any suggestions or questions, and I'll answer i
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Fixed now! https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data/pull/2... Sincerely, your biographer. : )
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by mtlynch 2y ago
> I see blog.plover.com, the blog of Mark Jason Dominus, who by the way is looking for a job Whoops, that was a mistake. Fixed now: https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data/pull/2... >Also
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Yeah, that's a good point. I was trying to be respectful of the author's wishes around pseudonymity, as it seemed intentional that when he lost anonymity, he switched domains, so I didn't want to "out" the author, b
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by mtlynch 2y ago
If you limit it to July 2021 (when you started blogging) until the present, you're at #16: https://refactoringenglish.com/tools/hn-popularity/?end=2025...
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Author here! I explain the methodology here: https://refactoringenglish.com/tools/hn-popularity/methodolo... If you'd like to add your metadata, I'll happily accept a PR here: https://github.c
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by mtlynch 2y ago
D'oh! Fixed now. https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data/pull/2... Sorry again!
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by mtlynch 2y ago
I started by writing them by hand, but it was taking forever to read enough of each author's blog to write a summary and topic list, so I used an LLM and then spot-checked. I just updated yours, but let me know if you'd like somet
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Ah, fixed now. Thanks! https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data/pull/1...
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Sorry about that. Fixed now! https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data/pull/1...
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Author here. This is something I wanted but I couldn't figure out a way to do it in a way that's meaningful. Authors like Simon Willison publish frequently, so even though he has a lot of high-scoring posts, he has a lot of low-to
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Sorry about that! Fixed now: https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data/pull/1...
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Author here. That was an error. I think what happened was that I was going through the list of domains and assumed that "righto.com" would be too valuable a domain name for a personal blog and excluded it without checking. Sorry a
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by mtlynch 2y ago
It's four payments over six weeks. You generally don't pay interest on a purchase with a credit card if you pay it off within six weeks of the purchase. After the purchase, there's up to four weeks for the statement to close,
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Hi, Scott! Thanks for your response. To be clear, I like the work you're doing. I definitely agree that the unit of review shouldn't be one commit at a time or every commit all at once, and I'm happy to see you invest in tool
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by mtlynch 2y ago
> In a nutshell, you know as well as I do that if someone sends you a PR with thousands of changed lines and dozens of changed files, you’re more likely to “LGTM” than spend hours trying to get through it. I think he's right that t
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GitButler's new patch based Code Review (Beta)(blog.gitbutler.com)
3 points by mtlynch 2y ago|3 comments
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Author here. Happy to take any feedback or answer any questions about this post.
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No Longer My Favorite Git Commit(mtlynch.io)
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Show HN: Personal Best, the highest-ranking personal blogs of Hacker News(refactoringenglish.com)
3 points by mtlynch 2y ago|0 comments
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No Longer My Favorite Git Commit(mtlynch.io)
4 points by mtlynch 2y ago|0 comments

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