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Paul Masurel
Personal blog · fulmicoton.comprogrammingsystemsdata
Paul Masurel's personal blog at fulmicoton.com covers programming, systems and data. Since 2013, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Using Common Crawl to play Family Feud”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Paul Masurel's posts on a Bayesian rating for ranking book mentions on Hacker News and on building a search index over Common Crawl data. They mostly call the posts good or interesting.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Using Common Crawl to play Family Feud2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-03-08
- Hosting files in url minifiers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-07-13
What Hacker News says?
pure algorithm & perf stuff... - exponential unrolled linked list: I don't know what they are called, so I called them that way https://fulmicoton.com/posts/tantivy-stacker/ . - radix heap. I actually had to use that data structure on a real use case. - radix tree. Actually super useful. - HashMap<String, V> where the string and the value are contiguous in memory. Weirdly I've never seen that one... The hashmap can…
Comment linking /posts/tantivy-stacker/
on “Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?”Submitted Implementing Levenshtein Automata as a story · 100 points
HN discussionWell it is a rank - a simple bayesian avg of number of mentions together with karma of the user. But as someone below mentioned it kind of boils down to the karma of the user who mentioned the book. A good post about that is - http://fulmicoton.com/posts/bayesian_rating
Comment linking /posts/bayesian_rating
on “Show HN: Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News”Submitted Solving Rubik's cube from scratch, in python as a story · 86 points
HN discussionA search index is often made of smaller independent pieces often called segments. So you can download & process progressively the data locally and upload it to an object storage. And run queries on it. That's what we did here for this project: https://quickwit.io/blog/commoncrawl Also an interesting blog post here: https://fulmicoton.com/posts/commoncrawl/
Comment linking /posts/commoncrawl/
on “Writing your own search engine is hard (2004)”Submitted Using Common Crawl to play Family Feud as a story · 36 points
HN discussionApproach ----------- Basically the approach is like that used by the Sproutcore Big Data List demo, being: 1. construct a moving foreground window onto a giant, scrollable background element (giant, as in arbitrarily wide and high, like 200000em) 2. move rows from the 'scroll wake region' to a pool when they move offscreen because of scroll, 3. move rows from the pool to the 'scroll bowshock region' when we need new…
Comment linking /fattable/index2.html
on “Show HN: A work in progress large table virtualization component”Submitted Hosting files in url minifiers as a story · 34 points
HN discussionSubmitted How much of your database is actually in your RAM? as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tantivy's inner workings, a search engine written in rust as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fast indexing with Rust and Tantivy as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Of tantivy, a search engine in Rust as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Performance tricks for the webprogrammer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bitpacking faster when SIMD is not available as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hack: hosting files in url minifier services as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Of Bayesian average and star ratings as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cool implementations of Fibonacci as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Of Berlekamp factorization algorithm as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Of running multiple regexp at once as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wiggle Stereography in your Browser as a story · 1 points
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