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Simon's blog is a personal blog at blog.simonfarshid.com about programming, design and security. Since 2023, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “What Is Trusted Computing?”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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2023–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2023

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

Why HN links it

Linked for a post on getting native JSON output from GPT-4 using a JSON schema and function calling. One commenter cites it as a working alternative to a guidance library.

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. What Is Trusted Computing?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-17

What Hacker News says?

  1. I’ve found using a JSON schema and function calling, as described in this blog post, to be just as effective and less opaque than this library: https://blog.simonfarshid.com/native-json-output-from-gpt-4 (it works perfectly with GPT-3.5 as well)

    Comment linking /native-json-output-from-gpt-4

    on “Guidance: A guidance language for controlling large language models”
  2. Submitted What Is Trusted Computing? as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Compiling .ts to .js as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Increase Your Luck as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Save Time with Search-First Navigation as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Trusted Computing – How does a streaming site protect its contents? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted What Is Trusted Computing? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Adapting Illustrations on Dark Mode as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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