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Alaric Stephen
Personal blog · alaricstephen.com/main-featuredmathscience
Alaric Stephen's personal blog at alaricstephen.com covers math and science. Since 2019, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link one post about an election-day crossword built to support either outcome, comparing it to later news such as a Supreme Court ruling and a YouTube URL puzzle.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /main-featured/2017/7/3/the-clintonbobdole-crossword3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-07-16
What Hacker News says?
A slightly different situation, but it reminds me of the classic election-day crossword, which was cleverly constructed to support either outcome: http://www.alaricstephen.com/main-featured/2017/7/3/the-clin...
Comment linking /main-featured/2017/7/3/the-clintonbobdole-crossword
on “Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade”Submitted An Infinite Orchard as a story · 22 points
HN discussionReminds me of the brilliant New York Times crossword which "predicted" the winner of the US election in 1996: http://www.alaricstephen.com/main-featured/2017/7/3/the-clin...
Comment linking /main-featured/2017/7/3/the-clintonbobdole-crossword
on “YouTube video has its own URL in it”Submitted The Cryptic Crossword That Recruited for Bletchley Park as a story · 4 points
HN discussionShades of http://www.alaricstephen.com/main-featured/2017/7/3/the-clin... .
Comment linking /main-featured/2017/7/3/the-clintonbobdole-crossword
on “Tony Bennett Dead at 96”Submitted Modelling Rabbit Populations; an Introduction to Chaos Theory as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Polygonal Number Last Digits as a story · 1 points
HN discussion