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Mathieu Larose
Personal blog · mathieularose.com · on HN as laroseprogramming
Mathieu Larose's personal blog at mathieularose.com covers programming. Since 2013, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Choosing the right data structures”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked post is about Python list comprehensions and choosing the right data structures. One commenter cites it when explaining why they would avoid the networkx library.
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.
Mathieu Larose
Most-linked posts?
- Choosing the right data structures3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-08-08
- Function Composition in Python2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-01-06
- Changelog-Driven Releases2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-21
What Hacker News says?
Indeed. And you don't even need to create a PR to "inject" commits into a GitHub repo. You just need to fork it and push to your fork. See https://mathieularose.com/github-commit-injection
Comment linking /github-commit-injection
on “YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git”Submitted Choosing the right data structures as a story · 82 points
HN discussionI have not used networkx on anything serious, but this article lead me to believe that it is to be avoided, since the library missed obvious Python optimizations: https://mathieularose.com/choosing-the-right-data-structures...
Comment linking /choosing-the-right-data-structures/
on “How (Not?) to Use Python’s List Comprehensions”Submitted Changelog-Driven Releases as a story · 30 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Git-Backup – Back Up Your Git Repositories to S3 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Choosing the Right Data Structures as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Speed Up Your CI/CD Pipeline with Change-Based Testing in a Yarn-Based Monorepo as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted GitHub Commit Injection as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Choosing the Right Data Structures as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Optiverse – Evolving Code with LLMs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Back Up Your Git Repositories to S3 or Any S3-Compatible Storage as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Changelog-Driven Releases as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Function Composition in Python as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Function Composition in Python (2013) as a story · 1 points
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