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Vikram Oberoi
Personal blog · vikramoberoi.com · on HN as voberoiprogrammingai
Vikram Oberoi's personal blog at vikramoberoi.com covers programming and ai. Since 2022, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “How I made atariemailarchive.org”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link his posts on using bitmaps for funnel computation and on tagging the Atari email archive, plus a post on a David Beazley compilers course. Comments cite them as sources, not as praise.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- How I made atariemailarchive.org2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-09-09
- Using bitmaps to run retention analyses over billions of events for $100/mo2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-08-10
- Roaring bitmaps: what they are and how they work2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-09-02
- Compilers with David Beazley: a recursive descent into madness (and delight)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-19
- How citymeetings.nyc uses AI to make it easy to navigate city council meetings2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-29
- Using Polars on Results from DuckDB's Arrow Interface in Rust2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-05
What Hacker News says?
Bitmaps can also be used for computing funnels: https://vikramoberoi.com/using-bitmaps-to-run-interactive-re...
Comment linking /using-bitmaps-to-run-interactive-retention-analyses-over-billions-of-events-for-less-than-100-mo/
on “Bitmap Indexes in Go: Search Speed (2019)”Submitted Roaring bitmaps: what they are and how they work as a story · 226 points
HN discussionI have heard good things about his courses, but it's good to hear your perspective too. https://vikramoberoi.com/compilers-with-david-beazly-a-recur... But most importantly this thread is about what to do with an educational budget. And even if he's not a great teacher, spending money to be forced to think about a problem sounds pretty effective. Like how a paid meetup has a higher percentage of people showing up wh…
Comment linking /compilers-with-david-beazly-a-recursive-descent-into-madness-and-delight/
on “Ask HN: Best Tech Courses/Certifications Under $400 for a Back End Engineer?”Submitted How citymeetings.nyc uses AI to make it easy to navigate city council meetings as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI wrote this post about how I made atariemailarchive.org: https://vikramoberoi.com/how-i-made-atariemailarchive-org/ . The whole project was fun, but I think the story behind it is neat too.
Comment linking /how-i-made-atariemailarchive-org/
on “Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?”Submitted Using bitmaps to run retention analyses over billions of events for $100/mo as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://vikramoberoi.com I started writing publicly late last year. It's been tons of effort but it's been tremendously fun and fruitful. Some of my more-visited or favorite posts: * A primer on Roaring bitmaps: what they are and how they work -- https://vikramoberoi.com/a-primer-on-roaring-bitmaps-what-th... . This one ended up on the front page of HN and gets hundreds of visits monthly. I wrote it because it's the…
Comment linking /how-i-made-atariemailarchive-org/
on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted A primer on Roaring bitmaps: what they are and how they work (2022) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionActually the Vikram said he had initially added a search feature and it didn't appear to be very useful. He says: search is an awful way to curate text when your readers don't know what is interesting about it. This is obvious in retrospect, but it didn't occur to me until I showed what I built to folks. Though there are at least 41 different tags that he applied to the threads and can be found here: https://atariem…
Comment linking /how-i-made-atariemailarchive-org/
on “Atari Email Archive (archive of messages sent at Atari from 1983 to 1992.)”Submitted Citymeetings.nyc uses AI to make it easy to navigate city council meetings as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Roaring Bitmaps: What they are and how they work (2022) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Helping sommeliers inventory wines faster with Whisper, DuckDB, and Metaphone as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Polars on Results from DuckDB's Arrow Interface in Rust as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Compilers with David Beazley: a recursive descent into madness (and delight) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I made atariemailarchive.org as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A primer on Roaring bitmaps: what they are and how they work as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How many concurrent conversations can you sustain before OpenAI rate limits you? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Metaphone to handle bad transcriptions in voice search for sommeliers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Polars on Results from DuckDB's Arrow Interface in Rust as a story · 1 points
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