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Jeff Huang
Personal blog · jeffhuang.com · on HN as lazyjeffsciencewritingcareer
Jeff Huang's personal blog at jeffhuang.com covers science, writing and career. Since 2010, 88 different Hacker News readers have linked it 152 times, most often “Best Papers in Computer Science up to 2011”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Rarely recommended · 0 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link jeffhuang.com for its 'Best Paper Awards in Computer Science' list, cited as a reference for which institutions produce top CS research. Commenters also point to his essays on plain-text productivity and on designing websites to last.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Jeff Huang, Associate Professor at Brown University in Computer Science, working in Human-Computer Interaction.
Most-linked posts?
- Best Papers in Computer Science up to 201119 people · 21 mentions · first linked 2010-08-20
- This Page is Designed to Last15 people · 17 mentions · first linked 2019-12-19
- My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file12 people · 18 mentions · first linked 2020-02-08
- Best Paper Awards in Computer Science in the Past 25 Years (1996-2020)8 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2020-07-22
- /best_paper_awards.html4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-08-03
- Verified Computer Science PhD Stipends3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-04-14
- Illustrative notes for obsessing over publishing aesthetics3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-06-27
- The coronavirus pandemic has changed our sleep3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-06-16
- Computer Science Open Data3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-04-14
- /papers/SelfE_CHI21.pdf3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-11-01
What Hacker News says?
I like it, but I think it's a matter of preference. Another article from the author: https://jeffhuang.com/designed_to_last/ Nothing is going to break a static next.js page that wouldn't also break this page. Hosting space and bandwidth are cheap, and while next.js has some overhead, it has built-in tree shaking to compress what may be a 200MB node_modules directory into less than a megabyte. Next.js also changes a…
Comment linking /designed_to_last/
on “My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file”Submitted My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file as a story · 1545 points
HN discussionYes, that's a good way to put it. I've been campaigning against this trend for a while in any project I'm involved in [ https://jeffhuang.com/designed_to_last/ ]. The toolchain is simply bloated, and pieces brittle. Many of the projects out there would not last past an OS upgrade.
Comment linking /designed_to_last/
on “CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abandoned due to bugs”Submitted This Page is Designed to Last as a story · 1321 points
HN discussionBlogger, Medium, et.al... will these free services be around in the future after their money dries up as they find a sustainable business model for hosting your thoughts? Will you own the data you published if it's on some social network? This often shared, but I just read recently article comes to mind: https://jeffhuang.com/designed_to_last/
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on “Building a personal website in 2021”Submitted My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file (2020) as a story · 523 points
HN discussionBest Paper Awards in Computer Science (since 1996) http://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html Papers I Read https://shagunsodhani.in/papers-I-read/
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on “Ask HN: What are some interesting papers in CS for a beginner?”Submitted My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020) as a story · 499 points
HN discussion> This is the grey area I am talking about. You licensed the rights exclusively to ACM, in perpetuity. In fact, your own publication of the pdf may also be non-compliant, but nobody has sued you as that would be political suicide The "Post" section of the page linked by lazyjeff says: >Otherwise known as "Self-Archiving" or "Posting Rights", all ACM published authors of magazine articles, journal articles, and confe…
Comment linking /papers/SelfE_CHI21.pdf
on “It's hard to overstate what a scam academic and scientific publishing is”Submitted Best Paper Awards in Computer Science since 1996 as a story · 354 points
HN discussionFrom the website you linked: >Authors who wish to retain all rights to their work can choose ACM's author-pays option, which allows for perpetual open access through the ACM Digital Library So, this requires the author, and by extension, taxpayers in most cases, to pay a couple of thousand to ACM to put a pdf online. How does this make sense ? >And the copyright block in one of my papers as an example: https://jeffh…
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on “It's hard to overstate what a scam academic and scientific publishing is”Submitted My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020) as a story · 295 points
HN discussionSorry for a back-and-forth replies, but I don't want readers to be misled: > You do not retain the copyright, and the only permission you get is to share it for classroom use with some other constraints. Authors posting them on their university websites is a grey area that is likely non compliant but it would be really bad PR for ACM to go after such instances. See https://authors.acm.org/author-services/author-righ…
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on “It's hard to overstate what a scam academic and scientific publishing is”Submitted Best Papers from 27 Top-Tier Computer Science Conferences as a story · 192 points
HN discussionYou might say your website was designed to last[1] 1. https://jeffhuang.com/designed_to_last/
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on “18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated”Submitted Ph.D. 2.0: Rethinking the Ph.D. Application as a story · 187 points
HN discussionI've written a bit about combining a todo list with notetaking in a single text file: https://jeffhuang.com/productivity_text_file/ Last time I posted it on Hacker News, quite a few people told me they adopted this workflow.
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on “Tired of note-taking apps”Submitted Best Paper Awards in Computer Science over the past 25 years as a story · 159 points
HN discussionNot for Garmin, but I have saved my data from the servers for the Microsoft Band [ https://jeffhuang.com/extracting_my_data_from_the_microsoft_... ] and Hello Sense [ https://jeffhuang.com/extracting_my_data_from_the_hello_sens... ] before they both shut down. Basically, you can MITM to find the REST API calls, save the token, and mimic the calls to get your data. I was thinking of one day editing the apps for weara…
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on “On Liberating My Smartwatch from Cloud Services”Submitted Best Papers in Computer Science up to 2011 as a story · 154 points
HN discussionThis solution is on the user side, which is great because each person can get and manage saved pages for themselves. But if we're looking for a developer side solution, then making pages that last an order of magnitude longer may be better for everyone in the long run, e.g. https://jeffhuang.com/designed_to_last/
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on “Webrecorder: Make an interactive copy of any web page that you browse”Submitted Behind the scenes: the struggle for each paper (2021) as a story · 147 points
HN discussionI've been looking at the bias in rankings for a little while. I think one way to identify and raise awareness of the biases, is just put rankings together side-by-side. I did this for computer science programs, and there's some interesting differences that I noticed: https://jeffhuang.com/computer-science-open-data/#bias-in-co...
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on “U.S. News pulls Columbia University from its 2022 rankings”Submitted Best Paper Awards in Computer Science in the Past 25 Years (1996-2020) as a story · 142 points
HN discussionNot sure why you seem to think researchers are flowing to Google. Microsoft Research is still the biggest name in distributed systems, if not CS in general. They have been consistently producing high-quality papers [1]. [1] http://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html
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on “Leslie Lamport awarded Turing Award”Submitted This page is designed to last (2019) as a story · 132 points
HN discussionThe by-instituion ranking is particularly interesting: https://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html#institutions Some of those are obvious if you've been in the field a while, but I think it's notable that big names like Intel, Harvard and NASA are so lowly ranked when compared to others on the list. Also Notable, none of the big names in the field won any of these: Jeff Dean, Geoff Hinton, Yann Lecun, Andrew Ng, Yo…
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on “Best Paper Awards in Computer Science since 1996”Submitted Best Paper Awards in Computer Science Since 1996 as a story · 129 points
HN discussionGreat list, with a lot of work put in there! In particular, the breakdown by institutions is very interesting -- https://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html#institutions Related, the most cited CS papers (although very dated at this point ...): http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/stats/articles
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on “Best Paper Awards in Computer Science since 1996”Submitted Every "best paper" from Computer Science conferences since 1996 as a story · 129 points
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