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addshore
Personal blog · addshore.com · on HN as addshoreprogrammingaidata
addshore is a personal blog at addshore.com about programming, ai and data. Since 2018, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Hunting YouTube Crypto Scams”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite addshore's posts on Wikidata and Wikibase, such as a 2016 geospatial search guide and a 2022 post on automation scripts for hunting YouTube crypto scams. Comments use them as sources, not praise.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Working at lightbug.io on IoT things as Head of Clouds, after back from sailing "the world" aboard sailinghannahpenn.co.uk. Previously a staff software engineer working for Wikimedia Deutschland on various projects including Wikibase, Wikidata and MediaWiki. I use the username "addshore" in most pla
Most-linked posts?
- Hunting YouTube Crypto Scams2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-09-16
- A first look at Wikidata through GitHub Copilot2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-11
What Hacker News says?
Scalable? Citation needed. It is well-known wikidata does not scale. Whether it is in terms of number of data contribution or number of queries. Not only that, but the current infrastructure is... not great. WBStack [0] try to tackle that but it is still much more difficult to enter the party, than it could be. Changes API? None. That means that it is not possible to keep track of changes in your own wikidata/wikiba…
Comment linking /2020/01/wbstack-infrastructure/
on “Abstract Wikipedia”Submitted Hunting YouTube Crypto Scams as a story · 9 points
HN discussion> Is anyone aware of a good Google Places API alternative, including any paid self-hosted databases? I think you can achieve this with wikidata / wikibase : https://addshore.com/2016/05/geospatial-search-for-wikidata-... You will have to populate it yourself though.
Comment linking /2016/05/geospatial-search-for-wikidata-query-service/
on “Why Nukemap Isn't on Google Maps Anymore”Submitted Tackling Technical Debt, Big and Small, in Wikidata and Wikibase as a story · 6 points
HN discussionIt is very likely that they will only detect 1) automation scripts like https://addshore.com/2022/09/hunting-youtube-crypto-scams/ 2) scrapers from analytics systems 3) botnet nodes to boost view count
Comment linking /2022/09/hunting-youtube-crypto-scams/
on “If you watched certain YouTube videos, investigators demanded your data”Submitted Wikidata Architecture Overview (diagrams) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wikidata Map in 2025 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted UX of 9 Code Assistant Combinations: A 6-Hour Comparison in VS Code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hunting YouTube Crypto Scams as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A first look at Wikidata through GitHub Copilot as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Own Wikidata Query Service, with no limits (part 1) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wikidata Map July 2019 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Windows 11 OpenSSH agent to WSL2 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A first look at Wikidata through GitHub Copilot as a story · 1 points
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