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Chris Lowis

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Chris Lowis's personal blog at blog.chrislowis.co.uk covers programming and web. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Using R from Ruby”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-11, and you can follow it by feed.

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12mentions?
3HN people?
2009–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2010

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

Why HN links it

Post on guessing a programming language from the keys a person presses. The one comment only points to other syntax-highlighting and classifier tools and does not judge 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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Using R from Ruby
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-02-20

What Hacker News says?

  1. obtu · 2012-07-12
    highlight.js [1] does this, though by running highlighters rather than using some learning-based mechanism. It feels wasteful to run this on display rather than storage, though. SourceClassifier [2] also works, though with less languages. And here's [3] an implementation made with Bayes and Go. [1] http://softwaremaniacs.org/soft/highlight/en/ http://softwaremaniacs.org/media/soft/highlight/test.html [2] http://blog…

    Comment linking /2009/01/04/identify-programming-languages-with-source-classifier.html

    on “Most Pressed Keys and Programming Syntaxes”
  2. chrislo · 2010-05-31

    Submitted Open source Rails apps to study and learn from as a story · 127 points

    HN discussion
  3. chrislo · 2013-06-10

    Submitted Playing notes with the Web Audio API: Polyphonic Synthesis as a story · 35 points

    HN discussion
  4. chrislo · 2010-10-26

    Submitted Laptop Driven Development (with Emacs) as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  5. chrislo · 2009-02-20

    Submitted Using R from Ruby as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  6. chrislo · 2015-06-19

    Submitted Web Audio Weekly as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. chrislo · 2014-07-24

    Submitted Creating dub delay effects with the Web Audio API as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. chrislo · 2013-06-28

    Submitted Synthesis with the Web Audio API - Envelopes as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. chrislo · 2013-06-05

    Submitted Playing notes with the Web Audio API. as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. chrislo · 2010-11-24

    Submitted Using Rake and Git to find out what I did yesterday as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. eaxitect · 2011-08-14

    Submitted Using R and Ruby - slides from February LRUG as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. chrislo · 2011-05-18

    Submitted Great radio interviews as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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