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Krystian Safjan

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Krystian Safjan's personal blog at safjan.com covers programming and ai. Since 2022, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Self-Hosted, Open Source RSS Feed Readers in 2022”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-08, and you can follow it by feed.

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12mentions?
8HN people?
2022–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2023

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked once in a Markov chain thread as a further source that Markov chains and language models are related. The linked post covers differences between GPT and transformer models.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Self-Hosted, Open Source RSS Feed Readers in 2022
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-24

What Hacker News says?

  1. It's not the only one stating this: https://safjan.com/understanding-differences-gpt-transformer... If we're broadening the scope of a Markov chain to consider the entire system as the current state that's being used to determine the next step of operation, then isn't literally every computer program a Markov chain under that definition? You can't just include the memory of previous states which the current state is…

    Comment linking /understanding-differences-gpt-transformers-markov-models/

    on “Markov Chains are the Original Language Models”
  2. Submitted Keeping performance results in a separate Git branch via `Git checkout –orphan` as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. It is already happening and with the availability of the tools like PyO3 [1] (it allows Python developers to write performance-critical code in Rust and then expose it as a Python module) the Rustication of the Python will be progressing while some controversies will appear [2]. Adding new language adds complexity to the python code base but it is always good to have at least choice and decide case-by-case if use Ru…

    Comment linking /rustification-of-python/

    on “Even the Pylint codebase uses Ruff”
  4. Submitted Implementing Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF) in Python as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. https://safjan.com

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”
  6. Submitted Self-Hosted, Open Source RSS Feed Readers in 2022 as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Python Expertise Level – Self-Assessment as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted New Cognitive Skills in the Age of AI Tailored Information as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Self-Hosted, Open Source RSS Feed Readers in 2022 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted How to Use RPC in Python? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Federated Social Web Manifesto as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted New Cognitive Skills in the Age of AI Tailored Information Presentation as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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