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Alex Bellos

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Alex Bellos's personal blog at alexbellos.com covers math and science. Since 2010, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Alan Turing's library list”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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2010–2012first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2012

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Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for a post about a standing desk experiment and experiences. The one comment cites it only to note that Martin Gardner used a standing desk.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Alan Turing's library list
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-02-21
  2. Turing’s school reports
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-02-22

What Hacker News says?

  1. Martin Gardner used to work at a standing desk - mentioned here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituarie... http://alexbellos.com/?p=1255

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    on “Standing desk experiment and experiences”
  2. Submitted Alan Turing's library list as a story · 36 points

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  3. Submitted Turing’s school reports as a story · 6 points

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  4. Submitted Alan Turing’s school reports as a story · 5 points

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  5. Submitted The Tuesday Birthday Problem as a story · 5 points

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  6. Submitted The Travelling Salesman Problem as Art as a story · 2 points

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  7. Submitted Drilling square holes: Curves and solids of constant width as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Alan Turing’s library list as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Fuzzy roots - wispy smoke from the digits of sqrt(2) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted A fine mess - a random walk with Pi. as a story · 1 points

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  11. Submitted The Leap Year Problem as a story · 1 points

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  12. Submitted Ants have a sense of number as a story · 1 points

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