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James Cunningham

Personal blog · jamescun.com · on HN as jamescunprogrammingsystems

James Cunningham's personal blog at jamescun.com covers programming and systems. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Show HN: iPG - YC Interview Simulator”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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11mentions?
3HN people?
2011–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for Y Combinator application and interview prep, including the iPG YC interview simulator and its underlying data list.

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.

The author on HN?

jamescun · 2,340 karma · member since 2011

Twitter: @jamescun Github: https://github.com/jamescun Blog: http://www.jamescun.com/ Email: hackernews [at] jamescun.com [ my public key: https://keybase.io/jamescun; my proof: https://keybase.io/jamescun/sigs/eg-YzEEaRcyzNwlxW6095oWVjkLanjoACl6O7WSxk0U ]

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Show HN: iPG - YC Interview Simulator
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-04-27

What Hacker News says?

  1. Animus7 · 2012-04-27Recommends
    Heh, I thought my team was the only one that made this kind of thing before interviews. This one's got much better content than ours though; thanks for sharing! For those like me who are curious what the RNG missed, here's the data list: http://www.jamescun.com/ycs12/data.js

    Comment linking /ycs12/data.js

    on “Show HN: iPG - YC Interview Simulator”
  2. jamescun · 2012-04-27

    Submitted Show HN: iPG - YC Interview Simulator as a story · 290 points

    HN discussion
  3. ThinkADRIAN · 2013-03-30
    Thanks Lucas! Best of luck to you too. Did our tips line up with your own process? I'd be interested to here what other resources and references other use. I suggest using iPG ( http://www.jamescun.com/ycs12/ ) to prep for an invitation for interview for your team.

    Comment linking /ycs12/

    on “The Road to Y Combinator - Part 1”
  4. jamescun · 2011-10-17

    Submitted Securing PHP as a story · 110 points

    HN discussion
  5. jamescun · 2011-10-29

    Submitted Stop Ridiculing Ideas as a story · 21 points

    HN discussion
  6. jamescun · 2012-12-14

    Submitted Masterless Puppet as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  7. jamescun · 2012-08-11

    Submitted Young Rewired State to Silicon Valley as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  8. jamescun · 2013-02-09

    Submitted How "Traceroute 216.81.59.173" Works as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  9. jamescun · 2013-01-16

    Submitted Amazon didn't kill HMV as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  10. jamescun · 2016-02-18

    Submitted Binary Sizes in Go as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. jamescun · 2011-12-15

    Submitted Tackling MySQLs "Too Many Connections" error with HAProxy as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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