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aakashjapi.com is a personal blog at aakashjapi.com about programming and data. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Implementing a Text Search Engine with Ranking in Python”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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8mentions?
4HN people?
2015–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog's full-text search article as an entry point into information retrieval, and as a resource for people looking for a text search engine tutorial.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Implementing a Text Search Engine with Ranking in Python
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-07-29

What Hacker News says?

  1. amirouche · 2015-10-18Recommends
    It doesn't learn, it fully supervised and doesn't have feedback loop. I don't say it's not interesting, it's step forward compared to other articles in my collection [1][2][3] about the same subject allows to dive easily into the metrics and heuristics used in IR. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJwFHSeFg44 [2] http://aakashjapi.com/fuckin-search-engines-how-do-they-work... [3] https://class.coursera.org/nlp/lec…

    Comment linking /fuckin-search-engines-how-do-they-work/

    on “Full-Text Search in JavaScript”
  2. Submitted Recommending Subreddits by Computing User Similarity as a story · 23 points

    HN discussion
  3. A DDG search for "Text search engine python tutorial" find articles like http://aakashjapi.com/fuckin-search-engines-how-do-they-work... . There's a textbook at https://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/information-retrieval-book.... . These should be enough hints so you can find something closer to what you are looking for.

    Comment linking /fuckin-search-engines-how-do-they-work/

    on “Ask HN: How can I implement full-text search enginge”
  4. Submitted Implementing a Text Search Engine with Ranking in Python as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Analyzing Rent Prices in Berkeley as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Mimicking Writing Style with Markov Chains as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Choosing Your First (Engineering) Job as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Caching in Java with JOOQ and Redis as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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