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Aaron Tay

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Aaron Tay's personal blog at musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com covers science and data. Since 2018, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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2018–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2018

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link Aaron Tay's blog for library-science and search technique posts, including tips on advanced Google searching and a 2024 post on semantic search.

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.

A blog about academic librarianship. Covers discovery, open access and other hot trends by a librarian in Singapore.

What Hacker News says?

  1. I'm not finding the pages I remember -- a bit ironic, and I checked DuckDuckGo to see whether that might change any... bias. But, here are a couple of starting points: -- "6 common misconceptions when doing advanced Google Searching" http://musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com/2015/10/6-comm... (Blogger "Javascript era/template workaround): https://archive.is/7t28O I wasn't aware of some of the tips described ther…

    Comment linking /2015/10/6-common-misconceptions-when-doing.html

    on “Google will shut down Google+ four months early after second data leak”
  2. Submitted Comparing disciplinary coverage of 56 databases, measuring ORCID adoption as a story · 21 points

    HN discussion
  3. Have you experimented with late interaction? https://jina.ai/news/what-is-colbert-and-late-interaction-an... http://musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com/2024/06/can-se... https://colbert.aiserv.cloud/

    Comment linking /2024/06/can-semantic-search-be-more.html

    on “Long Read: Lessons from Building Semantic Search for GitHub and Why I Failed”
  4. Submitted Our citation practices make no sense as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Primo Research Assistant launches- a first look and some things you should know as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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