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Thought Box is a personal blog at blog.jnbrymn.com about programming and science. Since 2018, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Earrrl – The Estimated Average Recent Request Rate Limiter”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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7mentions?
5HN people?
2018–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2021

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link John Berryman's Thought Box for his proposed Redis rate limiter, which one commenter contrasted with a GitHub article on a sharded, replicated rate limiter. The comment does not assess the writing.

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.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Earrrl – The Estimated Average Recent Request Rate Limiter
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-04-01

What Hacker News says?

  1. I originally thought this article was going to be about John Berryman's proposed Redis rate limiter [0] [0] http://blog.jnbrymn.com/2021/03/18/estimated-average-recent-...

    Comment linking /2021/03/18/estimated-average-recent-request-rate-limiter.html

    on “We scaled the GitHub API with a sharded, replicated rate limiter in Redis”
  2. Submitted The Brain's Ability to Process Stereo Sound · Thought Box as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Earrrl – The Estimated Average Recent Request Rate Limiter as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted The Primary Objective of Software Design: Minimizing Total Cognitive Load as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Similarity Search for Grouped Content as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted A Sketch for a New Distribution Sketch as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Tool Invocation – Demonstrating the Marvel of GPT's Flexibility as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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