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Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?

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Re: Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?

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Post by higerordermap »

marginalia_nu wrote: post #60

A while back I changed my search engine's crawl data to be ZSTD compressed JSON. It's a bit finnicky to work with, but I'm beginning to realize just how powerful this is. Could literally just do find -name \*.zstd -exec zstdcat {} \; | jq 'first(select(.doc|select(.!=null)|.[].headers|select(.!=null)|test("[xX]-[aA]dblock-[kK]ey")))' and it spewed out samples of domains with a header like X-Adblock-Key. (I'm not grea…

I don't have much context about your technical requirements but can I ask why JSON instead of a more indexable format?

Re: Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?

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Post by ardit33 »

layer8 wrote: post #68
ardit33 wrote: post #32

Checking out Blind .... I love HN but Blind is more entertaining for sure.

In what way? Just curious.

It is like a giant watercooler for most tech companies out there... full of gossip and other silliness.

If you don't take it too seriously, it is a fun and entertaining place, also people keep it more real as people don't hold the punches. (due to anonymity).

Also it is a good place to know about tech interviewing in general, what to do, leveling, negotiation. It servers as a mini forum/guild for tech folks. It can be very helpful on that aspect.

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