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Personal blog · chuttenblog.wordpress.comprogrammingdata

chuttenblog is a personal blog at chuttenblog.wordpress.com about programming and data. Since 2016, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Data Science Is Hard: ALSA in Firefox”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-19, and you can follow it by feed.

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20mentions?
17HN people?
2016–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2016

Most-linked posts?

  1. Data Science Is Hard: ALSA in Firefox
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-11-06
  2. Data Science Is Hard: Dangerous Data
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-09-29
  3. Firefox Windows XP Exit Plan
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-10-28

What Hacker News says?

  1. thristian · 2020-11-10
    A related anecdote: Firefox disabled ALSA support because their telemetry showed nobody was using it, but it turned out that the kind of people who use ALSA are also the kind of people who disable as much telemetry as possible: https://chuttenblog.wordpress.com/2020/11/05/data-science-is... Disabling telemetry is like refusing to register to vote: you minimise the chance of people doing bad things to you, but you al…

    Comment linking /2020/11/05/data-science-is-hard-alsa-in-firefox/

    on “Disable telemetry and data collection in mozilla Firefox Quantum (2018)”
  2. fireattack · 2021-05-03

    Submitted Why are there so many Canadians in India? as a story · 141 points

    HN discussion
  3. rockdoe · 2021-04-08
    Reminds me of this: https://chuttenblog.wordpress.com/2020/11/05/data-science-is... tl;dr Telemetry indicates ALSA is no longer used. Firefox removes ALSA. Said Firefox version reaches release. Audio completely stops working for all users of some distros...that were yanking out the Telemetry.

    Comment linking /2020/11/05/data-science-is-hard-alsa-in-firefox/

    on “Mozilla hides Compact Mode in Firefox for new users”
  4. robin_reala · 2018-09-05

    Submitted The End of Firefox Windows XP Support as a story · 26 points

    HN discussion
  5. cpeterso · 2016-03-04

    Submitted Windows XP Firefox Users as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  6. headalgorithm · 2020-11-06

    Submitted Data Science Is Hard: ALSA in Firefox as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  7. staktrace · 2020-11-06

    Submitted Data Science Is Hard: ALSA in Firefox as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  8. db48x · 2017-10-01

    Submitted Data Science Is Hard: Dangerous Data as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. cpeterso · 2016-11-02

    Submitted Firefox Windows XP Exit Plan as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  10. staktrace · 2017-02-23

    Submitted Data Science Is Hard: Anomalies and What to Do About Them as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. pabs3 · 2021-01-19

    Submitted Doubling the Speed of Windows Firefox Builds using sccache-dist as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. bhaile · 2018-06-28

    Submitted When, Exactly, Does a Firefox User Update, Anyway? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. harshal · 2017-09-29

    Submitted Data Science Is Hard: Dangerous Data as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. NeutronBoy · 2017-03-09

    Submitted Firefox on Windows XP: End of the Line as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. robin_reala · 2016-10-28

    Submitted Firefox Windows XP Exit Plan as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. wodenokoto · 2016-04-20

    Submitted Firefox’s Windows XP Users’ Upgrade Path as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. maple3142 · 2021-07-02

    Submitted Data Science is Hard: ALSA in Firefox (2020) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. bzbarsky · 2018-01-17

    Submitted Firefox Telemetry Use Counters: Over-Estimating Usage, Now Fixed as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. type0 · 2016-11-10

    Submitted Data Science Is Hard – Case Study: Latency of Firefox Crash Rates as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. scriptedfate · 2016-01-12

    Submitted C++: How to use dtor order to detect temporaries as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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