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Kevin Montrose
Personal blog · kevinmontrose.comprogrammingdata
Kevin Montrose's personal blog at kevinmontrose.com covers programming and data. Since 2011, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Machine Learning at Stack Exchange”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Kevin Montrose's posts for background on Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange engineering, including his API work and the Providence machine learning projects. Comments cite them as sources only.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Machine Learning at Stack Exchange2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-11-15
- Machine Learning at Stack Exchange2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-01-27
- An Optimization Exercise2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-04-26
- Are you measuring your social media buttons?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-06-20
What Hacker News says?
They have some machine learning projects: https://kevinmontrose.com/2015/01/27/providence-machine-lear... Also, they do get a lot of comments. You can read about their setup here: http://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-arc... http://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/03/29/stack-overflow-the-har...
Comment linking /2015/01/27/providence-machine-learning-at-stack-exchange/
on “An Inferno on the Head of a Pin”Submitted Machine Learning at Stack Exchange as a story · 44 points
HN discussionHere's a post about it from Kevin Montrose (API dev @ SE): http://kevinmontrose.com/2012/02/01/stack-exchange-api-v2-0-...
Comment linking /2012/02/01/stack-exchange-api-v2-0-no-write-access/
on “IPad app for Stack Overflow”Submitted More, a CSS compiler as a story · 41 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Optimization Exercise as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Jil: Doing JSON Really, Really Quickly as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Implementing "filters" in the (beta) Stack Exchange API as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Your Email Is (Practically) Your Identity as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Providence: Machine Learning at Stack Exchange as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Your Future on Stack Overflow as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted History Of The Stack Exchange API, Mistakes as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Machine Learning at Stack Exchange as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Jil: Version 2.x, Dynamic Serialization, and More as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted History Of The Stack Exchange API, Version 1.1 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stackoverflow String Searching Optimizations as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Providence: What technologies do you know? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Are you measuring your social media buttons? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Are you measuring your social sharing buttons? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
