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Peter Sobot

Personal blog · blog.petersobot.comprogrammingai

Peter Sobot's personal blog at blog.petersobot.com covers programming and ai. Since 2013, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Reviving an Analog Polysynth with an Arduino, Ghidra, and Python”. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.

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22mentions?
11HN people?
2013–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 11 in 2022

Most-linked posts?

  1. Reviving an Analog Polysynth with an Arduino, Ghidra, and Python
    5 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2022-11-29
  2. Debugging an empty spam email (2016)
    3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-10-15
  3. Forever.fm - automatic, infinite online DJ, beatmatched, via SoundCloud
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-10-27

What Hacker News says?

  1. I am quite interested in this topic. There is some research on that field. Some links I collected in the past: http://thesis.flyingpudding.com/ http://dynampd.ubitux.fr/ http://erikbern.com/2015/09/22/presentations-about-spotify-m... http://erikbern.com/2015/09/24/nearest-neighbor-methods-vect... http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/08/qq_netflix-algorithm/ http://www.slideshare.net/erikbern/collaborative-filtering-a…

    Comment linking /introducing-forever-fm

    on “Finding Similar Music Using Matrix Factorization”
  2. Submitted Patching an embedded synthesiser OS from 1996 with Ghidra as a story · 289 points

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  3. This seems like an odd way to do music streaming, I feel like you'd be better off dumping MP3 files in a folder and taking advantage of the media streaming support in nginx or Apache or similar. Or, you can look at psobot's implementation of a streaming music app in forever.fm ( http://blog.petersobot.com/introducing-forever-fm ). The short version of it is that he uses a Python generator to generate frames, passes…

    Comment linking /introducing-forever-fm

    on “Create a Simple Music Streaming App with Flask”
  4. Submitted Pipes and Filters as a story · 223 points

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  5. Submitted Machine Learning for Drummers as a story · 101 points

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  6. Submitted The Cost of Waterloo Software Engineering as a story · 95 points

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  7. Submitted Debugging an empty spam email (2016) as a story · 33 points

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  8. Submitted The Architecture of an Infinite Stream of Music as a story · 13 points

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  9. Submitted Reviving an Analog Polysynth with an Arduino, Ghidra, and Python as a story · 4 points

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  10. Submitted Debugging an Empty Spam Email as a story · 4 points

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  11. Submitted Reviving an Analog Polysynth with an Arduino, Ghidra, and Python as a story · 2 points

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  12. Submitted Reviving an Analog Polysynth with an Arduino, Ghidra, and Python as a story · 2 points

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  13. Submitted Forever.fm - automatic, infinite online DJ, beatmatched, via SoundCloud as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Reviving an Analog Polysynth with an Arduino, Ghidra, and Python as a story · 1 points

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  15. Submitted Reviving an Analog Polysynth with an Arduino, Ghidra, and Python as a story · 1 points

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  16. Submitted Reviving an Analog Polysynth with an Arduino, Ghidra, and Python as a story · 1 points

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  17. Submitted Reviving an Analog Polysynth with an Arduino, Ghidra, and Python as a story · 1 points

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  18. Submitted Debugging an Empty Spam Email (2016) as a story · 1 points

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  19. Submitted Debugging an empty spam email (2016) as a story · 1 points

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  20. Submitted Debugging an Empty Spam Email as a story · 1 points

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  21. Submitted Debugging an Empty Spam Email as a story · 1 points

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  22. Submitted Building a DeepDream Web Service for $5/month with Spot Instances as a story · 1 points

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