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Sharmi's Blog
Personal blog · minvolai.com/blogprogrammingcareer
Sharmi's Blog is a personal blog at minvolai.com about programming and career. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a post on text extraction, specifically decruft, a Python fork of Arc90's Readability. One commenter cites it as a much faster fork with bug fixes, and the post is linked from a thread on text extraction algorithms.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Sharmi's Thoughts Ideas and Logs
What Hacker News says?
I've experimented with https://github.com/gfxmonk/python-readability but it's extremely slow. There's a decent fork called decruft that is a couple orders of magnitude faster http://www.minvolai.com/blog/decruft-arc90s-readability-in-p... Decruft also has a couple bug fixes to python-readability. They both need a lot of work, though. You'll have to do some spelunking to figure out how to actually call the libraries…
Comment linking /blog/decruft-arc90s-readability-in-python/
on “Overview of Text Extraction Algorithms”Submitted My Experience in Tech and Its Reflection on Women in Tech in India as a story · 56 points
HN discussion> Isn't tech beautiful exactly because what matters is problem solving, and letting code be the ultimate super-partes judge? This is exactly why I chose tech long before I even realized I needed to choose a career. Some of us have had great experiences in tech and have made wonderful friends. I have blogged about mine at [1] (it's a bit rambling). Unfortunately not all are so lucky. If it brings any solace, this is…
Comment linking /my-experience-in-tech-and-its-reflection-on-women-in-tech-in-india/
on “Meet India’s Women Open Source Warriors”Submitted Setting Up a Secure Single Node Elasticsearch Server Behind Nginx as a story · 2 points
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