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Bits on Disk

Personal blog · bitsondisk.com/writing · on HN as alexrasdataprogramming

Bits on Disk is a personal blog at bitsondisk.com about data and programming. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Time to retire the CSV?”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
3HN people?
2021–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2021

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

Why HN links it

HN links this blog for its post "Retire the CSV", which argues that the CSV format is inconsistent. Comments only cite it in a thread about JSON for Modern C++, with no judgement of the writing.

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.

The author on HN?

alexras · 1 karma · member since 2021

Data systems consultant (bitsondisk.com)

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Time to retire the CSV?
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-08-16

What Hacker News says?

  1. You mistakenly replied on the wrong thread. Here's the one you meant to reply on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28221654 Your quote "The CSV format itself is notoriously inconsistent" comes from this page which the thread discusses: https://www.bitsondisk.com/writing/2021/retire-the-csv/

    Comment linking /writing/2021/retire-the-csv/

    on “JSON for Modern C++ version 3.10.0”
  2. Submitted Time to retire the CSV? as a story · 215 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted It's Time to Retire the CSV as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Converging on Declarative Data Materialization as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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