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Show HN: A shell-native cd-compatible directory jumper using power-law frecency

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by Leftium

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I plan to use frecency in my bookmarking app.
Although you don't have any problems with lag, it is possible to efficiently compute frecency in O(1) complexity
> But with an additional trick, no recomputation is necessary. The trick is to store in the database something with units of date...
Full details: https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Jesse/NewFrecency#Efficient_co...

by zahlman

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Sorry, there's a lot here about the technical implementation details but much less I can understand about the problem being solved. What exactly do you mean by "manage"? What happens differently when you use this command, versus when you use built-in `cd`?

by ekropotin

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> While it is conceptually similar to tools like z or zoxide, the underlying ranking model is different.
I mean, cool stuff. But does it really matter from usability perspective?

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