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Rich Skrenta
Personal blog · skrenta.com · on HN as jsrfdedstartupswebprogramming
Rich Skrenta's personal blog at skrenta.com covers startups, web and programming. Since 2007, 42 different Hacker News readers have linked it 77 times, most often “Net is a single point labeled G connected to 10 billion destination pages.”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- Net is a single point labeled G connected to 10 billion destination pages.4 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2008-05-02
- Random Hacker News2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2011-02-16
- Rich Skrenta: Counting stuff is really hard (everything is harder in a distributed system)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-08-28
- Hypertable: Another open source BigTable clone2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-01-15
- Cuill is banned on 10,000 sites2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-04-08
- There’s No Such Thing As A Google Killer2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-07-29
- /2008/01/about_the_name_blekko.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-04-09
What Hacker News says?
> Do any site operators actually block non-Google search engine crawlers because being listed DDG/Bing/etc isn't worth the extra cost of serving the crawler? Many website operators do actually block crawlers from non Google search engines and it's because the cost of being crawled isn't worth it to them. Here's a good quote from one such webmaster: As a webmaster I get a bit tired of constantly having to deal with t…
Comment linking /2008/04/cuill_is_banned_on_10000_sites.html
on “Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search results?”Submitted Blekko partners with DuckDuckGo as a story · 122 points
HN discussionRandom highly-ranked hacker news threads: http://www.skrenta.com/hn/
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on “Solving The Hacker News Problem”Submitted A web startup, circa 2004 as a story · 63 points
HN discussionunix command: kibitz kibitz - allow two people to interact with one shell http://www.skrenta.com/rt/man/kibitz.1.html
Comment linking /rt/man/kibitz.1.html
on “Ask HN: I have ssh, they have ssh, how can we chat?”Submitted Algorithmic search is sinking as a story · 53 points
HN discussionI bet the guys at blekko don't have this problem when they launch. http://www.skrenta.com/2008/04/microsoft_bias_in_msn_search_...
Comment linking /2008/04/microsoft_bias_in_msn_search_r.html
on “999999999999999 - 999999999999997”Submitted Anatomy of blekko's press launch as a story · 52 points
HN discussionIt looks like he just misread this article, which is kind of a disaster itself -- it recommends storing MD5 hashes of passwords, maybe with a salt if you want to be extra secure . http://www.skrenta.com/2007/08/md5_tutorial.html Edit: Oh dear, there's a followup post: http://www.skrenta.com/2007/08/crypto_vs_the_working_coder.h...
Comment linking /2007/08/crypto_vs_the_working_coder.html
on “Speed Hashing”Submitted There’s No Such Thing As A Google Killer as a story · 47 points
HN discussionWhere'd I say "let's punish them"? I'm just accurately labeling the situation. Google's dominant position constitutes a 'monopoly' and 'monopoly market power', in a common understanding of those words, and in the senses often used by economists and regulators. Their search market has very high 'barriers to entry', in terms of costs-to-compete, ability-to-reach-customers, returns-to-scale, and network-effects. (Separ…
Comment linking /2007/01/winnertakeall_google_and_the_t.html
on “Rapgenius.com Traffic and Demographic Statistics”Submitted Random highly-ranked Hacker News Posts as a story · 41 points
HN discussionIt's not an opinion I hold strongly, it's just something I've noticed. I've seen more than one talk where someone apologized for implementing something with 'tie'. Here's one blog post about it (still opinion): http://www.skrenta.com/2007/05/tie_considered_harmful.html And, this article from the Modern Perl site itself has mixed opinions on the subject, but comes down on the side of not using it, in the general case…
Comment linking /2007/05/tie_considered_harmful.html
on “Diskhash – Disk-based, persistent hash tables”Submitted Blekko's ambient cluster health visualization as a story · 30 points
HN discussionAlso of interest: Random highly-ranked hacker news threads: http://www.skrenta.com/hn/ by Rich Skrenta http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jsrfded
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on “Snapshots of the HN "newest" page - one per month”Submitted 14 rules for fast web pages as a story · 27 points
HN discussionSkrenta talks about this, "Brand Perception Gap": http://www.skrenta.com/2007/01/winnertakeall_google_and_the_...
Comment linking /2007/01/winnertakeall_google_and_the_t.html
on “Users Love Microsoft, Yahoo Search -- When It's Branded With A Google Logo”Submitted Fletcher's angry list of startup rules as a story · 18 points
HN discussionThe full list of programming related slashtags that are being co-edited is here: http://www.skrenta.com/2011/02/blekko_stackoverflow_better_p...
Comment linking /2011/02/blekko_stackoverflow_better_pr.html
on “Blekko Partners With Stack Overflow To Improve Search Results”Submitted Kosmix releases Google GFS workalike 'KFS' as open source as a story · 16 points
HN discussionThis is the true best of HN, imo: http://www.skrenta.com/hn/
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on “Best of Hacker News”Submitted Did Blekko launch the "Minimum Viable Product?" as a story · 14 points
HN discussionDmoz nearly died in 2006... http://www.skrenta.com/2006/12/dmoz_had_9_lives_used_up_yet....
Comment linking /2006/12/dmoz_had_9_lives_used_up_yet.html
on “Dmoz – The Open Directory Project”Submitted The real reason Google's clicks are flat as a story · 13 points
HN discussionWell, you can read about that here : http://www.skrenta.com/2008/01/why_search.html and here : http://www.skrenta.com/2008/01/about_the_name_blekko.html
Comment linking /2008/01/about_the_name_blekko.html
on “Blekko's ambient cluster health visualization”Submitted How to Ship Code and Influence People as a story · 12 points
HN discussionKind of interesting. His criticisms of Google are not unreasonable [1], but it's just bluster until he gives a clue about his approach. 1. 'PageRank wrecked the web' http://www.skrenta.com/2007/12/pagerank_wrecked_the_web_3.ht... (fun in comments) 'Google sees own shadow, jumps overboard' http://www.skrenta.com/2007/12/google_sees_own_shadow_jumps_...
Comment linking /2007/12/google_sees_own_shadow_jumps_o.html
on “The Next Google Search Challenger: Blekko”Submitted Rich Skrenta: AppEngine - Web Hypercard, finally as a story · 12 points
HN discussionRich Skrenta has written some interesting stuff on his blog ( http://www.skrenta.com - nothing recent though) but I have to admit Cuil made me nervous about a "stealth search engine". I haven no idea how blekko compares, but I like the DuckDuckGo approach much better. Best of luck to them both, they've got their work cut out for them.
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on “Stealth Search Engine Blekko Raises Another $2.5 Million”Submitted Why Search? Skrenta on Blekko as a story · 12 points
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