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Anant Narayanan

Personal blog · kix.in · on HN as anantprogrammingwebai

Anant Narayanan writes kix, a personal blog at kix.in about programming, web and ai. Since 2009, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “An alternative to shared libraries”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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10mentions?
10HN people?
2009–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2009

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The one comment links to the author's Limbo and Inferno source code mirror rather than discussing any writing. The site's content is programming work, not the linked posts themselves.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Anant Narayanan builds AI products at Meta Superintelligence Labs. Previously Ozlo, Firebase, and Mozilla. Talks and writing archived since 2006.

The author on HN?

anant · 391 karma · member since 2010

Meta, Ozlo, Firebase, Mozilla https://www.kix.in/ [ my public key: https://keybase.io/anant; my proof: https://keybase.io/anant/sigs/pddUVcpOQL_y_0cDlMYNV7Jo4ZKkZXsW22_V7Az7CcM ]

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Most-linked posts?

  1. An alternative to shared libraries
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-05-11

What Hacker News says?

  1. skwaddar · 2009-07-16
    Strange thing to post without further comment. I'm a professional Limbo / Inferno programmer if you want to ask any questions. Some of my code is here http://www.kix.in/plan9/mirror/sources/contrib/maht/limbo/

    Comment linking /plan9/mirror/sources/contrib/maht/limbo/

    on “Inferno Distributed Operating System”
  2. entelechy · 2018-06-25

    Submitted An alternative to shared libraries (2008) as a story · 34 points

    HN discussion
  3. Fenume · 2015-04-26

    Submitted An alternative to shared libraries as a story · 30 points

    HN discussion
  4. vikrum · 2023-04-09

    Submitted Fine-tuning with LoRA: create your own avatars and styles as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  5. yungchin · 2011-01-26

    Submitted How does Weave use Cryptography? as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  6. bpung · 2009-11-05

    Submitted Identity on the web is broken as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. anant · 2023-05-06

    Submitted Show HN: Hacker News ChatGPT Plugin as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. pmoriarty · 2014-05-11

    Submitted An alternative to shared libraries as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. SonicSoul · 2013-08-20

    Submitted Why should you encrypt user data? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. ChrisArchitect · 2011-12-19

    Submitted Behind the Mozilla Apps Developer Preview as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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