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James Williams
Personal blog · jameswillia.ms/postsprogrammingai
James Williams's personal blog at jameswillia.ms covers programming and ai. Since 2020, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Shortest URLs on the Internet”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link posts on this blog about shortening URLs, including trailing-dot domain names, and a post testing ChatGPT with ROT13 text. The comments cite these posts as references and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 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?
- Shortest URLs on the Internet5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-09-11
- ChatGPT, Rot13, and Daniel Kahneman2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-08
What Hacker News says?
Do you just want a link? https://news.ycombinator.com./ If you want a link to a page with a link like this you can click on the github issue I referenced in my original comment as there are links there like that. If you want a more natural page that is less meta with such a link https://jameswillia.ms/posts/shortest-urls.html >Also, the term ‘FQDN’ does not always imply the dot at the end? Yes, but if there is not a…
Comment linking /posts/shortest-urls.html
on “Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters”Submitted Shortest URLs on the Internet as a story · 489 points
HN discussionSee https://jameswillia.ms/posts/shortest-urls.html and its HN submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32801359
Comment linking /posts/shortest-urls.html
on “http://pn./”Submitted ChatGPT, Rot13, and Daniel Kahneman as a story · 14 points
HN discussionhttps://jameswillia.ms/posts/shortest-urls.html
Comment linking /posts/shortest-urls.html
on “http://pn./”Submitted Adventures in building a Go container with Nix as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSee here https://jameswillia.ms/posts/shortest-urls.html
Comment linking /posts/shortest-urls.html
on “http://pn./”Submitted Playing devil's advocate on claims made in VPN adverts as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMore information in this other post that's currently on the front page https://jameswillia.ms/posts/shortest-urls.html
Comment linking /posts/shortest-urls.html
on “http://pn./”Submitted ChatGPT vs. a Cryptic Crossword as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThat's interesting. I was going off this post from a while back. https://jameswillia.ms/posts/chatgpt-rot13.html Perhaps it's been fixed now?
Comment linking /posts/chatgpt-rot13.html
on “Could robots do the work of master marble sculptors? This one is “99%” there”Submitted Short Domain Names as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://github.com/jamespwilliams/nde Project description: If you like (neo)vim and Nix, you might find this interesting: it’s a Nix-based Neovim development shell supporting a bunch of languages (with more to come!). LSPs are used with Neovim’s LSP support to give nice editing features, and treesitter is used for highlighting. Nix makes it possible to try out the shell with a single command (once you have Nix insta…
Comment linking /contact.html
on “Ask HN: Who needs beta testers? (February 2023)”