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Ryan Baumann
Personal blog · ryanfb.github.io/etcprogrammingsystems
Ryan Baumann writes ryanfb.xyz, a personal blog at ryanfb.github.io about programming and systems. Since 2015, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Ryan Baumann's blog as a reference for early Usenet history and archives, with posts on converting Usenet tapes and on command-line OCR. Also cited on Roman calendar history.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /etc/2015/02/23/early_usenet_history_and_archiving.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-07-20
What Hacker News says?
That article says "it is unclear when the Romans reset the course of the year so that January and February came first", but doesn't actually deny that the year formerly ended with February. See for example p.187 of https://ryanfb.github.io/loebolus-data/L333.pdf for a 1st century BC reference to it: > The Terminalia 'Festival of Terminus,' because this day is set as the last day of the year; for the twelfth month wa…
Comment linking /loebolus-data/L333.pdf
on “Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we explain our calendar”Submitted Git Strategies for Docker as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIndeed: the entire contents of Usenet up to the 1990s, including binaries, would fit on a thumb drive. https://ryanfb.github.io/etc/2015/02/23/early_usenet_history... Getting it off piles of tapes and onto that thumb drive, however, was a large task: https://www.joe0.com/2019/02/17/converting-utzoo-usenet-arch...
Comment linking /etc/2015/02/23/early_usenet_history_and_archiving.html
on “Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces”Submitted Thinking about Archival and Migration for GitHub as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTake a look here: https://archive.org/details/usenethistorical "This historical collection of Usenet spans more than 30 years and was given to us by a generous donor" This group for example, from that collection: https://archive.org/download/usenet-comp/comp.emacs.mbox.zip [69.8M] includes posts spanning from December 1988 to June 2013. For some reason the mbox files have an odd format, with From lines that look lik…
Comment linking /etc/2015/02/23/early_usenet_history_and_archiving.html
on “Newsgroups and the Internet Archive: I Made a Difference”This is sweet ...image-matching is one of those functions that external services do extremely well for the consumer -- e.g. Google Image Search and TinEye -- but not for those who need to have such a service in a private domain, such as an in-house photo library...I've used pHash for comparisons, and have a decent idea of how to build my own classifiers...but pretty much no idea how to do it efficiently and in a str…
Comment linking /etc/2015/11/03/finding_near-matches_in_the_rijksmuseum_with_pastec.html
on “Image-Match: Open-source scalable reverse image search”Tesseract: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract http://neilshroff.com/tesseract-ocr/doc/tesseracticdar2007.p... https://ryanfb.github.io/etc/2014/11/13/command_line_ocr_on_...
Comment linking /etc/2014/11/13/command_line_ocr_on_mac_os_x.html
on “Hosted Microsoft OCR library: Free OCR API web service”If you're after early usenet data, these should help: https://ryanfb.github.io/etc/2015/02/23/early_usenet_history... http://ianmilligan.ca/2013/03/06/exploring-the-usenet-archiv... https://archive.org/details/utzoo-wiseman-usenet-archive But if you're after "usenet search," then that can be a real headache.
Comment linking /etc/2015/02/23/early_usenet_history_and_archiving.html
on “Ask HN: Where can I search early usenet (what happened to Google's archives)?”
