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a blog by biggiemac42
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a blog by biggiemac42 is a personal blog at biggieblog.com about games and math. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Any Game of Life pattern can be constructed from just 15 gliders (2022)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on tracking global Opus Magnum puzzle records and building arbitrary Game of Life patterns from gliders. The comments cite the posts as sources without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Read about complicated creations, mathematical musings, and more
Most-linked posts?
- Any Game of Life pattern can be constructed from just 15 gliders (2022)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-02
What Hacker News says?
The experts do in fact track the entire Pareto Frontier in this way: https://biggieblog.com/tracking-the-global-opus-magnum-recor...
Comment linking /tracking-the-global-opus-magnum-records/
on “Solving puzzles faster than humanly possible”Submitted Celebrating the first NES Tetris game crash as a story · 204 points
HN discussionHi, I'm the author, the preferred URL is https://biggieblog.com/building-arbitrary-life-patterns-in-1... . Does that work for you?
Comment linking /building-arbitrary-life-patterns-in-15-gliders/
on “Any Game of Life pattern can be constructed from just 15 gliders (2022)”Submitted Solving puzzles faster than humanly possible as a story · 105 points
HN discussionSubmitted Any Game of Life pattern can be constructed from just 15 gliders (2022) as a story · 47 points
HN discussionSubmitted Solving puzzles faster than humanly possible as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Combining Rate and Instructions to Create Beautiful Madness as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reaching Long-Awaited Perfection on Opus Magnum's Final Level as a story · 1 points
HN discussion