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Anantha Kumaran
Personal blog · ananthakumaran.in · on HN as ananthakumaranprogrammingdata
Anantha Kumaran's personal blog at ananthakumaran.in covers programming and data. Since 2011, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Probability behind marriage horoscope”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked page is the author's resume, cited as an example of a resume that looks good yet remains professional. The comment does not discuss the writing itself.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Probability behind marriage horoscope2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-07-17
What Hacker News says?
self-plug: https://ananthakumaran.in/books
Comment linking /books
on “I made a virtual bookshelf”Submitted Tracing HTTP Requests with tcpflow as a story · 109 points
HN discussionLocation: Bangalore, India Remote: Yes, Preferred (GMT 0 to GMT +9) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Elixir, Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, TypeScript Résumé/CV: https://ananthakumaran.in/resume.html Email: see CV Senior full-stack developer with 10+ years of experience seeking full-time, remote role (UK/Europe/Asia). Update: I accepted an offer and I am no longer looking for a job. Thanks.
Comment linking /resume.html
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2022)”Submitted Moving tables across PostgreSQL instances as a story · 85 points
HN discussionIt could be as simple as this guy's -> http://ananthakumaran.in/resume.html
Comment linking /resume.html
on “Ask HN: Resumes that look good but professional too”Submitted Scala _ [underscore] magic as a story · 33 points
HN discussionI tried to use tramp based setup, but ran into many edge cases. Even popular libraries like flycheck doesn't support tramp very well. Eventually I found mosh and that settled the problem. Mosh + iterm2 + terminal emacs[1] combination works very well. Except a few missing features (fringe, variable font size/multiple fonts), nearly everything else works well. 1: https://ananthakumaran.in/2021/07/31/emacs-remote.html
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on “Emacs 29”Submitted Pimacs – An Emacs UI for Pi as a story · 25 points
HN discussionTramps works well for simple use cases, like quick config edit or view some files etc. For full blown project development, I found numerous issues with tramp. Many plugins that work well with local files might not work well with remote files. This is not a fault of tramp though, just that not every plugin authors have time to support tramp well etc. At the end, I went with mosh + emacs setup which just works once yo…
Comment linking /2021/07/31/emacs-remote.html
on “Keep your files inside your VM”Submitted Fine Tuning the Erlang Virtual Machine as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Caching Elixir Beam Files as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted ETS vs Redis as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rich Hickey's Book Recommendations as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pimacs – An Emacs UI for Pi as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hybrid Query Engine: ClickHouse and PostgreSQL as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Visualization of backoff functions as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Probability behind marriage horoscope as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted ClickHouse Table per Tenant in Production as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Moving a tenant across PostgreSQL instances as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Overlay Bar Chart as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted PostgreSQL Upgrade Using GCP DMS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding N + 1 queries problem as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generate XLSX with Unlimited Rows as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Probability behind marriage horoscope as a story · 1 points
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