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Simon Grondin

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Simon Grondin's personal blog at simongrondin.name covers programming and systems. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “An overview of OCaml”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

8mentions?
4HN people?
2013–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2015

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this site from a thread on Markov chains. The site hosts a demo that generates Reddit-style comments from other Reddit comments, with its code on GitHub. The one comment only mentions the demo.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. An overview of OCaml
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-07-16

What Hacker News says?

  1. Markov chains are fun and relatively simple. I wrote one that generates Reddit comments from other Reddit comments, you can try it here: http://simongrondin.name/files/reddit.html and the code (really dirty, sorry, I wrote the whole thing in 30-45 minutes iirc) is here: https://github.com/SGrondin/reddit-markov-chains/blob/master...

    Comment linking /files/reddit.html

    on “Markov Chains Explained”
  2. Submitted An overview of OCaml as a story · 121 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Things I’ve learned about making portable binaries as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted An overview of OCaml as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Some software design guidelines as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted An overview of OCaml as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Logarithmic scaling with the fastest JSON validator as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted A more functional split function as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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