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Sean Dague
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Sean Dague's personal blog at dague.net covers programming, systems and science. Since 2017, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Using Python with Selenium to Sieve Rule Syncing with Fastmail”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link its posts on comparing speech recognition services on podcasts, OpenStack's layered design versus Kubernetes deployment, and a satirical piece on crow intelligence and corporate firing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Sean Dague writes about climate, technology, and open source.
Most-linked posts?
- Using Python with Selenium to Sieve Rule Syncing with Fastmail2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-12-13
- Comparing Speech Recognition for Transcripts2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-06-12
What Hacker News says?
> "My, the intelligence in this species isn't very well-distributed," they and their tentacles agree. And then maybe they conspire to orchestrate your firing from that cushy corporate office job. They note that you then go home and start working on your career skills, in hopes of joining another company. "My, the intelligence of this creature is quite distributed," the tentacles and central brain agree, of the corpo…
Comment linking /2018/01/09/slow-ai/
on “Crows possess higher intelligence long thought a primarily human attribute”Submitted Comparing Speech Recognition for Transcripts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWhile kubernetes has a lot of concepts, its deployment is a lot more straightforward than OpenStack: https://dague.net/2014/08/26/openstack-as-layers/
Comment linking /2014/08/26/openstack-as-layers/
on “Will Kubernetes Collapse Under the Weight of Its Complexity?”Submitted Syncing Sieve rules in Fastmail the hard way (2017) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI did some experimenting with Watson and Google using podcasts, and Watson came out pretty well in the mix - https://dague.net/2017/06/12/comparing-speech-recognition-fo... and https://dague.net/2017/06/13/visualizing-watson-speech-trans... . I haven't done systematic analysis with a lot of data points yet. You can get per word confidence levels back from the Watson API if you ask for it, which is useful to know wha…
Comment linking /2017/06/13/visualizing-watson-speech-transcripts/
on “Ask HN: Is IBM Watson speech to text API so bad”Submitted Using Python with Selenium to Sieve Rule Syncing with Fastmail as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Comparing Speech Recognition for Transcripts as a story · 1 points
HN discussion