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Peter Braden
Personal blog · peterbraden.co.uk/article · on HN as peterbradenprogrammingculture
Peter Braden writes PeterBraden.co.uk, a personal blog at peterbraden.co.uk about programming and culture. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as an alternative to random short codes: a post on generating pronounceable hashes, which a commenter says is not necessarily better than the ShoutKey approach. Only one comment, from a friend of the author.
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What Hacker News says?
A friend of mine wrote an article on his blog about generating pronounceable hashes for just this purpose: http://peterbraden.co.uk/article/pronounceablehashing Not necessarily a better solution than this, but an interesting alternative I thought.
Comment linking /article/pronounceablehashing
on “ShoutKey - Temporary URL Shortener by jazzychad”Submitted A Collaborative Browser Based Raytracer as a story · 41 points
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