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Ray Li

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Ray Li's personal blog at rayli.net covers programming and data. Since 2011, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-02, and you can follow it by feed.

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2011–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link Ray Li's 2010 post explaining what PyPy is and its purpose, pointing it out to readers unfamiliar with the project. Another linked comment concerns changing how one thinks about goals.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

What Hacker News says?

  1. This sounds interesting. Thanks For others in my boat, who didn't know what exactly pypy was - http://rayli.net/blog/2010/04/what-is-the-purpose-of-pypy/

    Comment linking /blog/2010/04/what-is-the-purpose-of-pypy/

    on “Ask HN : Which opensource project for beginner python developer”
  2. Submitted Top data mining algorithms in plain English as a story · 318 points

    HN discussion
  3. To change your thinking about goals, you’ll need to recognize that goals aren’t for everyone. And that’s completely okay. Goals and problems are mentioned in your original post, but they are fundamentally different things. Goals usually mean you’re adding value. Problems mean you’re fixing something. Mixing the two is likely what’s making things difficult. Sometimes we make a goal to solve a problem, and sometimes w…

    Comment linking /posts/goals-vs-problems/

    on “How do I change the way I think about achieving my goals?”
  4. Submitted 21 better ways to read Hacker News as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Coursera Machine Learning review as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Data Mining Algorithms in Plain English as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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