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Lars Yencken

Personal blog · lars.yencken.org · on HN as lars512programming

Lars Yencken's personal blog at lars.yencken.org covers programming. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “In Praise of Nushell”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 9 in 2024

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lars512 · 1,519 karma · member since 2010

Engineering lead and data scientist http://lars.yencken.org/

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Most-linked posts?

  1. In Praise of Nushell
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-02-29

What Hacker News says?

  1. I also looked up recently and realized it had been ten years of doing something similar. It’s fun to see what we did differently. Your daily activity data is amazing I ended up moving towards the mental side, to see if I could measure aspects of flourishing and wellbeing, and more recently to see if any core attitudes about the world are changing over time. If you’re interested, check it out for comparison: https://…

    Comment linking /ten-years-of-measurement/

    on “Ten Years of Logging My Life”
  2. Submitted The fresh start effect as a story · 108 points

    HN discussion
  3. You can check out a range of important development statistics on India here: https://lars.yencken.org/projects/country-explorer/india The one we're talking about today is "extreme poverty", which is the $2.15 purchasing-power-adjusted line. It's fantastic news that most Indians have surpassed this line, but it's also helpful to think of this line as just one rung in a ladder out of poverty. Life just above this line…

    Comment linking /projects/country-explorer/india

    on “Extreme poverty in India has dropped to negligible levels”
  4. Submitted Estimate your age of death as a story · 93 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted In Praise of Nushell as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Exploring the World's Countries as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Country Explorer as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted In Praise of Nushell as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted In Praise of Nushell as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted The Best Code Is Pseudocode as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted The dream of abundant computing as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Ten Years of Measurement as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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