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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.
A bit of math and a byte of computer science
Most-linked posts?
- Using Math to Save Money on Train Tracks (Best Paper, FUN 2020)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-12
- An Almost-Secret Algorithm Researchers Used to Break Thousands of RSA Keys2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-01-15
- The World's Simplest Interesting Algorithm (2019)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-10
- I'm Above Average and So Are You2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-16
- The mathematics of how universities are underreporting Covid2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-12
What Hacker News says?
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”Submitted An Almost-Secret Algorithm Researchers Used to Break Thousands of RSA Keys as a story · 420 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Made Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem Hard to Prove as a story · 126 points
HN discussionSubmitted Speeding Slows You Down (By a Lot) as a story · 106 points
HN discussionSubmitted This hash table uses less space than the items it stores as a story · 35 points
HN discussionSubmitted The World's Simplest Interesting Algorithm (2019) as a story · 32 points
HN discussionSubmitted The mathematics of how universities are underreporting Covid as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted I'm Above Average and So Are You as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Probabilistic Method: Using Probability to Prove the Unexpected as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Things you didn't know about qsort as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Surprising Combinatorics of Boarding an Airplane as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cantor's Original Proof Had No Diagonals as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The (Almost) Secret Algorithm Researchers Used to Break RSA Keys as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I’m Above Average and So Are You as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Simplest Interesting Algorithm (2019) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is the actual infection rate at universities? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Two-Envelope Paradox Explained as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Random Walks Are Fun, Weird, and Slick to Analyze as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Surprising Studies Are Usually Wrong as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Soviet Russian Version of Cantor's Diagonalization Argument as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Train Tracks with Gaps: Applying the Probabilistic Method to Trains as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Math to Save Money on Train Tracks (Best Paper, FUN 2020) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Proving Optimality for the 100 Prisoners Problem as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fibonacci Forumulas for Fantastic Fun as a story · 1 points
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