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Harry Marr
Personal blog · hmarr.com · on HN as hcmprogrammingsystemsai
Harry Marr's personal blog at hmarr.com covers programming, systems and ai. Since 2010, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “How stdbuf works”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a Show HN OpenAI token counter tool and a thread on full-text search in MongoDB. The comments focus on the tool's missing features rather than on the writing.
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.
Harry Marr — Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic. Co-founded Dependabot, previously at GitHub, Monzo, and GoCardless.
Most-linked posts?
- How stdbuf works2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-11
- Full text search with MongoDB2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-03-18
- Counting OpenAI Tokens2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-23
What Hacker News says?
I'm working on CodeCube ( http://codecube.io ) - a pastebin that allows you to run the code snippets and see the output live in your browser. It's built on Docker. I posted an article about how I built it here: http://hmarr.com/2013/oct/16/codecube-runnable-gists/ The source is up on GitHub at https://github.com/hmarr/codecube
Comment linking /2013/oct/16/codecube-runnable-gists/
on “Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?”Submitted Making a Go program faster with a one-character change as a story · 511 points
HN discussionMore like throwing some wood into the fire. Was instigated by the talk[1] "Solr Power FTW", and "Building a recommendation engine, foursquare style" [6] (where Justin Moore admits: We are dumping the data from Mongo and loading it into Hadoop over S3 files. Map reduce is in this system, not in our mongo databases. ). Was wondering how much has this evolved over the last 6 months, how viable machine learning algorith…
Comment linking /2010/mar/18/full-text-search-with-mongodb/
on “Full Text Search in Mongo”Submitted How stdbuf works as a story · 133 points
HN discussion(Sorry if I ramble I've spent some time on token counting recently and have some opinions on it) It's neat that it's client side only but it's quite feature lacking compared to https://tiktokenizer.vercel.app/ or even a small python script I wrote. Feedback (Feature parity): -Identification and separation of individual tokens. Useful for prompting/adjusting logit biases. -Optional chat formatting -It's not very resp…
Comment linking /blog/counting-openai-tokens/
on “Show HN: A Less Shitty OpenAI Token Counter”Submitted Full text search with MongoDB as a story · 50 points
HN discussionhttps://hmarr.com
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Rubies and Bundles - switching from RVM to rbenv as a story · 48 points
HN discussionSubmitted CodeCube: Docker-powered Runnable Gists as a story · 33 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing MongoEngine: Django-esque ORM for MongoDB as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSubmitted MongoEngine 0.3 Released as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vitals: A tiny macOS process monitor as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted MongoEngine v0.4 Released as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted macOS backups with Kopia and Backblaze (2023) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Stdbuf Works as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Amazon's Simple Email Service (SES) with Django as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Counting OpenAI Tokens as a story · 1 points
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