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Kevin Lin
Personal blog · bit.kevinslin.com · on HN as kevinslinsystemsprogramming
Kevin Lin writes Bit by Bit, a personal blog at bit.kevinslin.com about systems and programming. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Lessons from Creating a VSCode Extension with GPT-4”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a post on lossless log aggregation, which groups log lines by common identifiers. One comment cites it as an alternative to CLP-style log compression.
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.
Thoughts on AI, technology, and humans. All opinions are my own.
Most-linked posts?
- Lessons from Creating a VSCode Extension with GPT-42 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-25
- Lossless Log Aggregation – Reduce Log Volume by 99% Without Dropping Data2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-06
What Hacker News says?
Two similar approaches using the fact that large portions of the text in a record is static. Using CLP: https://www.uber.com/blog/reducing-logging-cost-by-two-order... https://messagetemplates.org/ Rewrite the log to extract and group by common identifiers: https://bit.kevinslin.com/p/lossless-log-aggregation
Comment linking /p/lossless-log-aggregation
on “Short Message Compression Using LLMs”Submitted Lossless Log Aggregation – Reduce Log Volume by 99% Without Dropping Data as a story · 140 points
HN discussion> the point of using a different layout/structure for storage vs the UI layer? By way of example, I'll point to the classic example of a New User form UI: that UI will need 2 password inputs (one for the password, the other for the "confirm password") - but your User object/schema/DB-table won't have two separate string password fields - it'll have a single binary/byte[] salted-password-hash field, and you certainly…
Comment linking /p/leveraging-gpt-4-to-automate-the
on “The Stupid Programmer Manifesto”Submitted OpenTelemetry in 2023 as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted You're Paying too much for (Cloudwatch) Logs as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Logging Costs as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Deep Dive into Observability Pricing as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Architecture of Modern Observability Platforms as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted OpenClaw as the Universal Operating System for Agents as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on Claude Skills as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reducing Cloudwatch Log Costs by 80% with Firehose, S3 and Athena as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using GPT to Compile Pseudocode: A New Approach to Programming as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Skills as Object-Oriented Programming for LLMs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Opinionated Guide to Managing Observability Pipelines as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Logging with OpenTelemetry and Loki as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted First Mile Observability and the Rise of Observability Pipelines as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Athena Provisioned Capacity – Was it worth the wait? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Real-Time Is Amazon Cloudwatch Logs Live Tail? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons from Creating a VSCode Extension with GPT-4 (Part II) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons from Creating a VSCode Extension with GPT-4 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted GPT as a Compiler for Pseudocode as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Founder Burnout as a story · 1 points
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