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Algorithm Soup

Personal blog · algorithmsoup.wordpress.commathprogramming

Algorithm Soup is a personal blog at algorithmsoup.wordpress.com about math and programming. Since 2018, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Using Math to Save Money on Train Tracks (Best Paper, FUN 2020)”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2018

A bit of math and a byte of computer science

Most-linked posts?

  1. Using Math to Save Money on Train Tracks (Best Paper, FUN 2020)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-12
  2. An Almost-Secret Algorithm Researchers Used to Break Thousands of RSA Keys
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-01-15
  3. The World's Simplest Interesting Algorithm (2019)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-10
  4. I'm Above Average and So Are You
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-16
  5. The mathematics of how universities are underreporting Covid
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-12

What Hacker News says?

  1. Name: Algorithm Soup One-liner: A bit of math and a byte of computer science. https://algorithmsoup.wordpress.com/

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    on “Ask HN: Pitch your personal newsletter/blog with a one-liner”
  2. Submitted An Almost-Secret Algorithm Researchers Used to Break Thousands of RSA Keys as a story · 420 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted What Made Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem Hard to Prove as a story · 126 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Speeding Slows You Down (By a Lot) as a story · 106 points

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  5. Submitted This hash table uses less space than the items it stores as a story · 35 points

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  6. Submitted The World's Simplest Interesting Algorithm (2019) as a story · 32 points

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  7. Submitted The mathematics of how universities are underreporting Covid as a story · 18 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted I'm Above Average and So Are You as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted The Probabilistic Method: Using Probability to Prove the Unexpected as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Things you didn't know about qsort as a story · 4 points

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  11. Submitted The Surprising Combinatorics of Boarding an Airplane as a story · 3 points

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  12. Submitted Cantor's Original Proof Had No Diagonals as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted The (Almost) Secret Algorithm Researchers Used to Break RSA Keys as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted I’m Above Average and So Are You as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted The Simplest Interesting Algorithm (2019) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted What is the actual infection rate at universities? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted The Two-Envelope Paradox Explained as a story · 2 points

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  18. Submitted Random Walks Are Fun, Weird, and Slick to Analyze as a story · 2 points

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  19. Submitted Surprising Studies Are Usually Wrong as a story · 2 points

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  20. Submitted The Soviet Russian Version of Cantor's Diagonalization Argument as a story · 2 points

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  21. Submitted Train Tracks with Gaps: Applying the Probabilistic Method to Trains as a story · 1 points

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  22. Submitted Using Math to Save Money on Train Tracks (Best Paper, FUN 2020) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Proving Optimality for the 100 Prisoners Problem as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Fibonacci Forumulas for Fantastic Fun as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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