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Derek Willis
Personal blog · thescoop.orgdatapoliticsprogramming
Derek Willis's personal blog at thescoop.org covers data, politics and programming. Since 2013, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Scraping Women's College Volleyball Roster Data”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one comment, in the Gittip at Khan Academy thread, quotes a passage on whether programmers want a newsroom's mix of deadline stories and longer projects. The linked posts appear to cover newsroom programming work.
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?
- Scraping Women's College Volleyball Roster Data2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-12-26
What Hacker News says?
> Is that something you would even want? I don't think so. Having a balance between short-term deadline driven stories and slower, larger, more greenfield projects is a terribly nice luxury for a programmer to have. I also find it hard to imagine a more interesting and enlivening day-to-day environment than a national newsroom. I talk a little bit more about it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3HanxEFFlk ... an…
Comment linking /archives/2013/07/16/why-develop-in-the-newsroom/
on “Gittip at Khan Academy”Submitted How OpenElections uses LLMs as a story · 113 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Develop in the Newsroom? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted LLM Extraction Challenge: Fundraising Emails as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using AI to Parse Election Results as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How OpenElections Uses LLMs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Political Fundraising Email Database as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Turning Congressional Job Listings into Data Using LLM as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Interviewing FEC Filings with LLM-fecfile as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vibe Coding for Domain Experts as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scraping Women's College Volleyball Roster Data as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted West Virginia High School Football Blowouts as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scraping Women's College Volleyball Roster Data as a story · 1 points
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