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Samuel Hughes

Personal blog · samuelhughes.com/blog · on HN as SamReidHughesprogramming

Samuel Hughes writes SH Homepage, a personal blog at samuelhughes.com about programming. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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2012–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog's post on bidirectional varint encoding, a technical write-up on a low-level data encoding method. One commenter calls it excellent, though the comment is mostly a joke about copying it.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

The author on HN?

SamReidHughes · 5,112 karma · member since 2007

sam@samuelhughes.com http://samuelhughes.com/

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

What Hacker News says?

  1. If you don't mind, I just Ctrl-A & copied your excellent blog post about Bidirectional Varint Encoding [0]. I am going to post it on my own tech dev blog with my name replacing yours at the bottom. It's OK, its good for my readers. ;) [0] - http://samuelhughes.com/blog/9.html * - not really

    Comment linking /blog/9.html

    on “DocuSign Hackathon – $10,000+ in Prizes”
  2. Submitted Recursive decent parsing without lexing (2016) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. It is possibly this: http://samuelhughes.com/HNWeb.tar.gz It got rejected from the App Store. It tracks unread posts based on your scrolling and highlights new unread posts. It displays web pages in a native browser, makes voting buttons bigger and asks for confirmation, makes the font size appropriate. It works by filtering the HTML that goes to the browser widget, and that aspect of it might need updating if the s…

    Comment linking /HNWeb.tar.gz

    on “Ask HN: best HN app for iPhone?”

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