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boscoh.com is a personal blog at boscoh.com about science, programming and philosophy. Since 2007, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link boscoh.com for posts on protein structure, including an alternative host for Jane Richardson's protein-structure diagrams, RMSD and Kabsch alignment, and programming topics such as iterative XML parsing and D.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Iterative parsing is your friend: http://boscoh.com/programming/reading-xml-serially.html There used to be a big argument between DOM and SAX parsers, but iterative/streaming parsers nowadays offer a pretty good compromise.
Comment linking /programming/reading-xml-serially.html
on “Apple, in Sign of Health Ambitions, Adds Medical Records Feature for iPhone”Submitted Why D kicks serious ass over C++, leaving it dead and broken on the sidewalk as a story · 14 points
HN discussionEven though I’m not working in structural biology anymore, this is a topic that lies close to my heart. * Check out Jane Richardson’s The Anatomy and Taxonomy of Protein Structures ( http://kinemage.biochem.duke.edu/teaching/anatax , or https://boscoh.com/longform/anatax for an alternative version) to see more of her diagrams. * If you are into space-filling representations or depictions of molecules in a biological…
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on “How colorful ribbon diagrams became the face of proteins”Submitted Notes to a young computational biologist as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI should clarify that I am only a user - the site was made by http://mark.reid.name and http://boscoh.com
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on “Annotatr - scientific paper commenting done right”Submitted Protein Transcription as Compilation (2005) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis reminded me of an old post by a bioinformatician: “Some reflections on programming in D, and why it kicks serious ass over C++, leaving it dead and broken on the sidewalk” – https://boscoh.com/programming/some-reflection-on-programmin...
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on “Why I use the D programming language for scripting (2021)”Submitted The evolutionary origin of mystical states as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI believe this roughly the same algorithm used in matching protein structures using minimum RMSD, which used various methods over the years. https://boscoh.com/protein/rmsd-root-mean-square-deviation.h... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabsch_algorithm and see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal_Procrustes_problem
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on “3D Shape Matching with Quaternions”Submitted The 2 billion dollar protein sequencing error as a story · 2 points
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