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Yannick Gingras

Personal blog · ygingras.net/bprogrammingsystems

Yannick Gingras's personal blog at ygingras.net covers programming and systems. Since 2007, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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4HN people?
2007–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2007

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for Yould, a Markov-chain tool that generates pronounceable random names, described on the author's site. It was mentioned in a thread about naming startups.

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.

Welcome to my little home on the Web I am Yannick Gingras and this is my little home on the Web. About me I am a rock climber and a veteran of the tech industry with over two decades of experience with roles including CTO of a bootstrapped startup and engineering manager in a fortune 500 company. Ga

What Hacker News says?

  1. tocomment · 2007-06-19Recommends
    Yould ( http://ygingras.net/yould) Uses Markov chains to generate pronouncable random names. I can't reccomend it enough. What do you guys think?

    Comment linking /yould)

    on “How did you guys name your startup?”
  2. Submitted Revengate Development Log as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted The technology behind Ajah's services: Python and cubification. as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Too many files: Reiser FS vs hashed paths as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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