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Rawkes is a personal blog at rawkes.com about web, programming and games. Since 2010, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “There is something magical about Firefox OS”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.

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10HN people?
2010–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 10 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Rawkes for posts on Twitter sentiment mapping, NoFlo and flow-based programming, and the appeal of Firefox OS for mobile web apps. The comments only cite or link these posts.

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?

  1. There is something magical about Firefox OS
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-09-13
  2. An introduction to NoFlo and flow-based programming
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-02-03
  3. Rawkets Gamepad API demo in Firefox and Chrome
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-12-14

What Hacker News says?

  1. See also Rob Hawkes’ (from Mozilla) attempts to map Twitter sentiment: http://rawkes.com/blog/2011/04/19/finding-patterns-in-twitte...

    Comment linking /blog/2011/04/19/finding-patterns-in-twitter-sentiment

    on “Visualizing Hacker News”
  2. Submitted There is something magical about Firefox OS as a story · 445 points

    HN discussion
  3. http://www.dsprobotics.com/applications.html https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/synt... http://rawkes.com/articles/an-introduction-to-noflo-and-flow... Please. Stop. Typing. How much of your coding is spent on syntax, structure, and scope - jobs that the computer often does much better than you ? What benefit is there in typing out the same loops and so on over and over and making people read yo…

    Comment linking /articles/an-introduction-to-noflo-and-flow-based-programming

    on “What is “modern” programming?”
  4. Submitted ViziCities Dev Diary #1: Visualising Cities in 3D using WebGL as a story · 196 points

    HN discussion
  5. I'm going to be refining and updating the tech behind it (it's quite old) but I wrote a little more here, at least for the Twitter scraping: http://rawkes.com/articles/how-i-scraped-and-stored-over-3-m... As for the sentiment analysis… I'm unable to release the data-set as it's owned by a university in Florida and only available to students. A quick Google on sentiment analysis, or 'Affective Norms for English Words…

    Comment linking /articles/how-i-scraped-and-stored-over-3-million-tweets

    on “Monitoring mood in the UK using Twitter”
  6. Submitted Recreating Google's Bouncing Balls Logo In HTML5 Canvas as a story · 60 points

    HN discussion
  7. Apple and Google have no incentive to perfect this. They want people writing native apps. This is what excites me about something like Firefox OS ( http://rawkes.com/articles/there-is-something-magical-about-... ) -- Mozilla has the incentive to make mobile apps a first class citizen. If JavaScript/CSS/HTML is "native", then they have no choice but to get it right. Plus, when it comes to standards, Mozilla already h…

    Comment linking /articles/there-is-something-magical-about-firefox-os

    on “Touch events on the mobile web are unfinished”
  8. Submitted An introduction to NoFlo and flow-based programming as a story · 47 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Monitoring mood in the UK using Twitter as a story · 43 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Creating a 3D sound visualiser with WebGL and the HTML5 Audio Data API as a story · 31 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted ViziCities: London Underground in 3D, Leap Motion, funding and more as a story · 18 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Everybody loves a good snog – Finding sentiment in the UK via Twitter as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted The moment Twitter lost Steve Jobs #sentimentanalysis as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Becoming a Mozilla Technical Evangelist as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Twitter sentiment surrounding the Osama Bin Laden events as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Rawkets Gamepad API demo in Firefox and Chrome as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Some thoughts and advice for public speaking as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Create a real-time multiplayer HTML5 game with WebSockets and Node.js as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Gamepad API demo in Firefox and Chrome as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Anyone remember this awesome use of HTML5? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Running Node.js from within a Firefox XUL extension as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted There is something magical about Firefox OS (2012) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted People love a good smooch on a balcony: Monitoring mood in the UK via Twitter as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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