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James Lu
Personal blog · jameslu.substack.comprogrammingstartups
James Lu writes James’s Newsletter, a personal blog at jameslu.substack.com about programming and startups. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Show HN: Using GPT-3 to generate Vim commands for editing text”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post for its method of hiding cookie banners and paywalls in the browser. One commenter points to it alongside Bypass Paywalls and Web Annoyances as tools for that.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Using GPT-3 to generate Vim commands for editing text2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-02-06
What Hacker News says?
I just use Bypass Paywalls[0] and Web Annoyances Ultralist (blocks cookie banners, autoplaying videos, sticky navs). https://jameslu.substack.com/p/hide-cookie-banners-paywalls-... [0]: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/blob/ma... [1]: https://github.com/yourduskquibbles/webannoyances
Comment linking /p/hide-cookie-banners-paywalls-sponsored
on “Saving children’s lives with world-first ‘dead’ heart transplants”Submitted Show HN: Using GPT-3 to generate Vim commands for editing text as a story · 10 points
HN discussionComment from `crazypython' to --> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26212645 I just use Bypass Paywalls[0] and Web Annoyances Ultralist (blocks cookie banners, autoplaying videos, sticky navs). https://jameslu.substack.com/p/hide-cookie-banners-paywalls- ... [0]: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/blob/ma... [1]: https://github.com/yourduskquibbles/webannoyances
Comment linking /p/hide-cookie-banners-paywalls-
on “Ask HN: How could HN reduce the amount of paywall articles?”Submitted Node.js 14 is over 2x faster than OpenJDK HotSpot Java 15 for fib(n) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Face-to-face communication is superior to written communication as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Finding Alternatives to a Software Product as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using GPT-3 to generate Vim commands as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chrome extensions to block cookie banners, sponsored sections, paywalls, etc. as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Make What You Do by “By Default” Productive: A Productivity Tactic as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Never start a project by making a logo as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to pick a web framework in Python as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The flashier the website, the worse the product as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using GPT-3 to generate Vim macros to edit text (for cleaning GPT-3 prompts) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Entrepreneur's Real Life versus School as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Email People Cold and Get a Reply as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Things I learned as an independent software developer as a story · 1 points
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