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Huy Nguyen
Personal blog · huyng.com · on HN as huyngprogrammingai
Huy Nguyen writes Searching Gradients, a personal blog at huyng.com about programming and ai. Since 2009, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “A guide to analyzing Python performance”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Huy Nguyen's shell tools, mainly bashmarks for bookmarking and jumping to directories, plus a geolocated webcam map. Most comments mention the tools rather than judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Searching Gradients is a research blog focused on visual search, computer vision, and deep learning. Written by Huy Nguyen.
Most-linked posts?
- A guide to analyzing Python performance4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-07-24
- Bashmarks3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2010-10-10
- Bashmarks - directory bookmarks for the shell2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-08-17
What Hacker News says?
Hey Guys, This is my blog. FWIW, I've actually switched away from using the script mentioned in the link posted by OP and have moved towards using an improved version below. http://www.huyng.com/bashmarks-directory-bookmarks-for-the-s... This new version has 3 commands: - "s" for save current directory as a bookmark - "g" for jump to bookmark's directory - "l" for list all bookmarks.
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on “Don't waste your time by cd-ing in the terminal”Submitted Don't waste your time by cd-ing in the terminal as a story · 449 points
HN discussionI suggest bashmarks http://www.huyng.com/projects/bashmarks/ to bookmark directories and jump there with a quick command. I also like to alias ..="cd .." and alias ...="cd ../.." to quickly navigate up.
Comment linking /projects/bashmarks/
on “Unix Tricks”Submitted A guide to analyzing Python performance as a story · 79 points
HN discussionI feel for you. Perhaps some of this may help: It sounds like you're mostly having trouble with OpenCV, which has a horrid API, especially the python version adds another layer of confusion on top of it, and dumping things back and forth from opencv Mat objects to numpy arrays sucks and wastes time. The documentation also is fairly bad. The error messages, like you say, kinda suck. So I can't help you much with that…
Comment linking /posts/python-performance-analysis
on “New IPython release drops Python 2.7 support”Submitted A guide to analyzing Python performance as a story · 10 points
HN discussionAlso good - bashmarks - directory bookmarks for the shell. http://www.huyng.com/bashmarks-directory-bookmarks-for-the-s...
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on “Awesome but commonly unknown Linux Commands”Submitted The CRM114 Discrimnator - Your own personal secretary on Mac OSX as a story · 6 points
HN discussionDang, I didn't see your post, but it would have saved me a lot of work. Just whipped this up last night... Here are all of the Webcams from a yahoo search up to 1000th result Geolocated: http://www.huyng.com/apps/geocams.html
Comment linking /apps/geocams.html
on “Google exposes security cameras”Submitted Are cloud services the new subprime mortgage? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI've always felt that autojump's "jump" command could be hit or miss when you had directories with similar paths. Because of this, I wrote a tool for myself to quickly jump around to commonly used folders by using short named aliases. The manual directory alias naming means that you can target the folder that you want much more accurately. Combined with tab-completion, this thing has become a huge productivity boost…
Comment linking /bashmarks-directory-bookmarks-for-the-shell/
on “Console productivity hack: Discover the frequent; then make it the easy”Submitted Bashmarks - directory bookmarks for the shell as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bashmarks: directory bookmarks for the shell as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A guide to analyzing Python performance as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bashmarks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don’t Hash Your Secrets, Here’s why in Python as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A guide to analyzing Python performance as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A guide to analyzing Python performance as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Easy way to run multiple django sites off same code-base as a story · 1 points
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