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Whitfin's Blog
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Whitfin's Blog is a personal blog at whitfin.io about programming. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for command-line tools. The one comment cites runiq, a tool for filtering duplicate lines, and describes using its Bloom filter option to dedup large gzipped files. It does not judge 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.
What Hacker News says?
A-ha! I knew I had one more. How many times have you wanted to dedup a (text) file, but definitely didn't have enough memory to perform the task? I found this one day when I had to dedup a set of .ndjson.gz files which totaled a cumulative 312 GBs. Utilizing the bloomfilter option, I was able to dedup the records without any large investment on my part. Anyways, runiq[1], "[an] efficient way to filter duplicate line…
Comment linking /filtering-unique-logs-using-rust/
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