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benhoyt

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benhoyt is a Hacker News page, tracked by ViralHunt since November 2013. Across 31 tracked posts they have accumulated 12.6K total engagement — an average of 405 per post.

31posts tracked
12.6Ktotal engagement
6.5Ktotal points
3Ktotal comments

Most viral posts by benhoyt

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1
Performance comparison: counting words in Python, Go, C++, C, Awk, Forth, Rust
Mar 15, 2021
POI 441 COM 303
2
I/O is no longer the bottleneck
Nov 26, 2022
POI 377 COM 326
3
Introducing PyScript (summary of PyCon keynote)
Jun 23, 2022
POI 402 COM 234
4
Don’t try to sanitize input – escape output
Feb 27, 2020
POI 297 COM 280
5
Show HN: I replaced Google Analytics with simple log-based analytics
May 11, 2019
POI 475 COM 137
6
Learning Go by porting a medium-sized web back end from Python
Nov 8, 2017
POI 242 COM 195
7
How to implement a hash table in C
Mar 26, 2021
POI 302 COM 156
8
Modernizing AWK, a 45-year old language, by adding CSV support
May 12, 2022
POI 258 COM 143
9
I/O is no longer the bottleneck? (2022)
Jan 6, 2026
POI 264 COM 130
10
What's New in Lua 5.4
Jul 15, 2020
POI 138 COM 131
11
The State of the AWK
May 19, 2020
POI 213 COM 86
12
Using a Markov chain to generate readable nonsense with 20 lines of Python
Jan 1, 2024
POI 230 COM 71
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