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S Anand
Personal blog · s-anand.net/blogdataai
S Anand's personal blog at s-anand.net covers data and ai. Since 2009, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “The Calvin and Hobbes search Takedown (2010)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (11) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link S Anand's blog for its account of the takedown of his Calvin and Hobbes search tool, and for linked tools such as the Calvin and Hobbes quote search, a CSV viewer and a JPath post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 11 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
LLM Psychologist at Straive, TDS faculty at IIT Madras, Gramener Co-founder. AI & Data Viz.
Most-linked posts?
- The Calvin and Hobbes search Takedown (2010)2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-02-16
- /comic.calvin.jsz2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-20
- /blog/the-calvin-and-hobbes-search-takedown/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-08-13
- /calvinandhobbes.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-02-02
What Hacker News says?
Out of curiosity, I looked up the original data source for the search and found this: http://www.s-anand.net/blog/the-calvin-and-hobbes-search-tak... . I think he deserves as much credit as the guy who created the search engine. TLDR: Some guy manually transcribed every single Calvin and Hobbes strip only to get a takedown notice and remove it.
Comment linking /blog/the-calvin-and-hobbes-search-takedown/
on “Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine”Submitted Markdress - Render any markdown URL as a story · 52 points
HN discussionA bit off-topic, but it's been increasingly tough to view Calvin and Hobbes on the internet. Gocomics seems to go after everyone who posts these comic strips on a regular basis. The C&H sub-reddit stopped posting some time ago. [0] The only C&H Search out there is not allowed to show the strips and instead redirects to Gocomics. [1] Here's a blog post by S. Anand detailing some background on the takedown notice he r…
Comment linking /blog/the-calvin-and-hobbes-search-takedown/
on “'Calvin and Hobbes' at 40”Submitted SSH Tunneling through web filters as a story · 33 points
HN discussionTrolling 5 year olds is a long established tradition. http://www.s-anand.net/blog/calvin-and-hobbes-dad-explains-s...
Comment linking /blog/calvin-and-hobbes-dad-explains-science/
on “Show HN: Percy – A Rust and WebAssembly isomorphic virtual DOM implementation”Submitted Recruiting smart people as a story · 12 points
HN discussionCouldn't resist passing on this link: http://www.s-anand.net/calvinandhobbes.html (An interface to search C & H quotes and download them)
Comment linking /calvinandhobbes.html
on “Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin & Hobbes, first interview since 1989”Submitted The Calvin and Hobbes search Takedown (2010) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI searched for "Somehow, it's always right now until it's later." and it found nothing, I checked on http://www.s-anand.net/comic.calvin.jsz and it's "Somehone, it's always right now until it's later." – it's not very forgiving.
Comment linking /comic.calvin.jsz
on “Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine”Submitted Pipes May Be All You Need as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf anyone else is looking for the dataset, it appears here: http://www.s-anand.net/comic.calvin.jsz
Comment linking /comic.calvin.jsz
on “Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine”Submitted The Calvin and Hobbes search Takedown (2010) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHere's his post about taking down the site: http://www.s-anand.net/blog/the-calvin-and-hobbes-search-tak...
Comment linking /blog/the-calvin-and-hobbes-search-takedown/
on “Calvin & Hobbes Search Engine”Submitted Learning to speak better with Microsoft Speaker Coach as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere used to be another search engine by S. Anand, but it was taken down because of copyright bullshit ( http://www.s-anand.net/calvinandhobbes.html ). Wonder what will happen with this one...
Comment linking /calvinandhobbes.html
on “Calvin & Hobbes Search Engine”Submitted Every Calvin and Hobbes strip in an Ajax interface with full-text dialog search as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAnother neat implementation - CSV Viewer [ http://www.s-anand.net/csv ]
Comment linking /csv
on “Load Data while Scrolling Page Down with jQuery and PHP”Submitted Is Protocol Buffers worth it? as a story · 2 points
HN discussion- po · 2010-09-25
Well, the JQuery name is already taken. Also it seems that the JPath idea isn't too crazy that someone didn't already do it: http://www.s-anand.net/blog/jpath-xpath-for-javascript/
Comment linking /blog/jpath-xpath-for-javascript/
on “CouchDB and SQlite merging technologies to create a JSON QL” Submitted Codecasting ― using Mozilla popcorn.js to explain code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionRelated: These C&H search engine projects have long been a target of cease & desist / takedown orders. (Until they weren't as much, hence this one surviving) Here's a story from the creator of another one by S. Anand: The Calvin and Hobbes search Takedown https://www.s-anand.net/blog/the-calvin-and-hobbes-search-ta...
Comment linking /blog/the-calvin-and-hobbes-search-takedown/
on “Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine”Submitted Open source in corporates as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Turning Walks into Pull Requests as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted LLM GPU or API? The Cost Will Surprise You as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The next chapter of my life as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scripting PowerPoint with Python as a story · 1 points
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