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monperrus.net is a personal blog at monperrus.net about programming and science. Since 2011, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “How to Store Data on Paper?”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (11) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link monperrus.net for posts on storing data on paper, covering OCR fonts, error correction, and roughly 100KB-per-page capacity. Other linked posts cover git with many files and Linux tools.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 11 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- How to Store Data on Paper?8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2021-12-31
- How to get perfect OCR of digital data with 100% accuracy?3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-12-03
- One Million Files on Git and GitHub (2015)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-02-22
What Hacker News says?
The font choice is discussed here: https://www.monperrus.net/martin/perfect-ocr-digital-data From the linked article: >The optimal font varies very much on the considered engine. Monospaced fonts (aka fixed-width) such as Inconsolata, are more appropriate in general. ocr-a and ocr-b ocrb give really poor results. I noticed that they liked using lower case letters for bases where that is a choice. I would think that…
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on “How to Store Data on Paper?”Submitted How to Store Data on Paper? as a story · 204 points
HN discussionHe covers error correction and information densities on the linked page: https://www.monperrus.net/martin/perfect-ocr-digital-data (Last section before conclusion.) IIUC this provided the best overall reliable information density (at 4.2kb / A4 page).
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on “How to Store Data on Paper?”Submitted How to Store Data on Paper as a story · 3 points
HN discussionPaper? https://www.monperrus.net/martin/store-data-paper I mostly jest. It would require a lot of paper. But it should be stable storage for potentially centuries.
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on “Ask HN: What's the most stable form of digital storage?”Submitted How to Store Data on Paper? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWas running it fine on Linux IIRC (maybe look it up if you're actually interested?), but again, long time ago so things may have changed. EDIT: Things seem to have deteriorated quite a bit and no major improvement in sight. Maybe not a surprise. https://www.monperrus.net/martin/bankid-linux https://www.sweclockers.com/forum/trad/1592956-bankid-pa-lin...
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on “Is there hope for Linux on smartphones? [video]”Submitted Travis for scientific experiments as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI only recently started using it, but I think most of the limitation on metadata is from git itself. (Remember all the metadata is in git; the data is in the "annex".) This person said they put over a million files in a single git repo, and pushed it to Github, and that was in 2015. https://www.monperrus.net/martin/one-million-files-on-git-an... I'm using git annex for a repository with 100K+ files and it seems tota…
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on “Git as a NoSql Database (2016)”Submitted The Coding Agent Bootstrap as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWhat about mu plus mu4e Thunderbird plus global search Recoll + client of choice https://www.monperrus.net/martin/recoll-maildir-thunderbird
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on “UUCP must stay; Fetchmail sucks (2001)”Submitted How to Store Data on Paper? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://www.monperrus.net/martin/perfect-ocr-digital-data https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawi...
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on “The Base58 Encoding Scheme”Submitted How to get perfect OCR of digital data with 100% accuracy? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis site suggests a limit of around 100KB per page with standard printer and scanner fidelity: https://www.monperrus.net/martin/store-data-paper
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on “Ask HN: How to store large amounts of data on paper with QR code like tech?”Submitted One Million Files on Git and GitHub (2015) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI wonder if you could convert TeX. (Background: http://www.monperrus.net/martin/compiling+Knuths+tex+with+GN... )
Comment linking /martin/compiling+Knuths+tex+with+GNU+Pascal+-+gpc
on “How Little Things Change: a Pascal-to-Javascript Converter”You could add an appendix with printed, scannable, binary data. You could create a page with a bunch of QR codes. Martin Monperrus vouched [0] for Twibright Optar [1]. [0] https://www.monperrus.net/martin/store-data-paper [1] https://ronja.twibright.com/optar/
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on “Personal Encyclopedias”Take a look at the ideas here https://www.monperrus.net/martin/store-data-paper
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on “Ask HN: Are there examples of 3D printing data onto physical surfaces?”
