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rhnh.net is a personal blog at rhnh.net about programming. Since 2008, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Speeding up Rails startup time”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.

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10mentions?
10HN people?
2008–2012first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2011

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

Why HN links it

HN commenters link this blog for a diary of switching to the Colemak keyboard layout and for a post on speeding up Rails 3.1 startup time on Ruby 1.9.2.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Speeding up Rails startup time
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-05-28

What Hacker News says?

  1. Xavier Shays diary on switching to Colemak: http://rhnh.net/2006/09/18/the-colemak-diaries

    Comment linking /2006/09/18/the-colemak-diaries

    on “Ask HN: What are you planning to learn in 2013?”
  2. Submitted Speeding up Rails startup time as a story · 152 points

    HN discussion
  3. It's a ruby issue. See: http://rhnh.net/2011/05/28/speeding-up-rails-startup-time My rails 3.1 starts in under ten seconds on ruby 1.9.2 with the patch.

    Comment linking /2011/05/28/speeding-up-rails-startup-time

    on “Rails 3.1.0 to be released on 22nd August”
  4. Submitted Why I rewrote chronic as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Vim and tmux on OSX(most of it can be used on other OS as well) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted DataMapper Retrospective as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted NYTimes jQuery Slidebox tutorial, with CSS animations and analytics tracking as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Guice in your JRuby as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted An OCR with Clojure & ImageMagic as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Finding related content with Sphinx as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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