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Chris Lord

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Chris Lord writes ChrisLord.net, a personal blog at chrislord.net about programming, web and ai. Since 2009, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Machine Learning Speech Recognition”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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13mentions?
13HN people?
2009–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2017

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Chris Lord's posts cover Mozilla and browser engine work, including Servo, and machine learning speech research from 2017. HN readers link them as background on those topics.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Machine Learning Speech Recognition
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-02-23

What Hacker News says?

  1. The Linux Foundation. A place where projects which have nothing to do with Linux go off to die. FWIW Mozilla gave up on producing an alternative browser engine years ago, much to the annoyance of its developers. The recently brought out one for Android aka GeckoView, but I doubt if any developers will have some interest in using it. When Microsoft ports its new Chromium based WebView2 which is currently available on…

    Comment linking /2017/06/28/goodbye-mozilla/

    on “Servo’s new home”
  2. Submitted Open Source Speech Recognition as a story · 311 points

    HN discussion
  3. Semi-related to the Baidu speech research: http://chrislord.net/index.php/2017/02/23/machine-learning-s... The work is done by Mozilla

    Comment linking /index.php/2017/02/23/machine-learning-speech-recognition/

    on “Deep Voice: Real-Time Neural Text-To-Speech”
  4. Submitted Goodbye Mozilla as a story · 182 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted How to Achieve Polished UI as a story · 149 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted The case for an embeddable Gecko as a story · 57 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Choosing between Webkit and Mozilla as a story · 23 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted State of Embedding in Gecko as a story · 17 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Writing and deploying a small Firefox OS application as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted State of Embedding in Gecko (2016) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Machine Learning Speech Recognition as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Tips for smooth scrolling web pages as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Web Navigation Transitions as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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