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John Murray's personal blog at johnmurray.io covers programming and career. Since 2012, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Realtime event-tracking with FnordMetric (HowTo)”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.

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23mentions?
5HN people?
2012–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2012

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

Why HN links it

Linked for log posts on ideas and science, such as 'Nothing is Interesting' (2013) and a piece tying P=NP to the quantum nature of the universe. Commenters question the site's lack of comments and the P=NP argument.

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.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Realtime event-tracking with FnordMetric (HowTo)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-01-20
  2. Nothing is Interesting
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-03-26

What Hacker News says?

  1. http://johnmurray.io/log/2013/03/13/Nothing-is-Interesting.m... How can someone answer any question in there if there's no any comments area?

    Comment linking /log/2013/03/13/Nothing-is-Interesting.md

    on “Read less HN”
  2. Submitted Read less HN as a story · 399 points

    HN discussion
  3. I don't understand the connection made here, because calculating the quantum state is NP-hard and is very time consuming, the object cannot exist in the universe? How is that preventing the macroscopic system from existing? How does the complexity class have anything to do with the real world? For example, a shortest path problem in the real world does not have any use for complexity theory: http://www.johnmurray.io…

    Comment linking /log/2012/07/10/Real-World-Shortest-Path.md

    on “P=NP Problem Linked To The Quantum Nature Of The Universe”
  4. Submitted Inspecting JSON at the command line as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Basic Scala Template for Start a New Project as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Creating A New Web Framework as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Implementing Scala's Try in GoLang as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Scala – handling null in web-service data-models as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Realtime event-tracking with FnordMetric (HowTo) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Poor Man's Actors as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Typed actions in Play Framework as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted API Anti-Patterns, courtesy of Microsoft as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Open Spaces Suck as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Beautiful "real-time" analytics as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted How to deploy Jekyll sites to Heroku as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted 20% is Mandatory as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Jenkins Environment Variable Templating as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Play Typed Actions as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Cloning Sinatra... Again as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Nothing is Interesting as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Geofencing System with Ruby and Mongo (a small series) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Per-Project Consoles with Pry as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Versioning your WCF Web APIs as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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