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Azeem Bande-Ali
Personal blog · azeemba.com/posts · on HN as azeembaprogrammingsystems
Azeem Bande-Ali's personal blog at azeemba.com covers programming and systems. Since 2021, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 42 times, most often “C++, Complexity, and Compiler Bugs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-23, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Comments only link Azeem Bande-Ali's posts as related examples: a pi article, homomorphic encryption with images, and skate stance versus handedness. No judgment of the writing.
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Posts and Projects of Azeem Bande-Ali
Most-linked posts?
- C++, Complexity, and Compiler Bugs4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-11-03
- What Is a URL: Dangers of Inconsistent Parsing of URLs3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-04-30
- Homomorphic Encryption with Images3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-08-17
- Understanding 3D Graphics2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-07-14
- Pi in Other Universes: How the value of pi depends on the definition of distance2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-10-29
- Certificate Authorities and the Fragility of Internet Safety2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-01
What Hacker News says?
A similar article, possibly was linked from Hacker News before: https://azeemba.com/posts/pi-in-other-universes.html
Comment linking /posts/pi-in-other-universes.html
on “Folks, we have the best π”Submitted PIDs: Creating Stable Control in Games as a story · 113 points
HN discussion> I had thought homomorphic encryption could be used to do actual calculations, at least certain kinds. Well yes. There was this: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21638639 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31933995 - https://azeemba.com/posts/homomorphic-encryption-with-images... And quite a few more.
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on “Swift Homomorphic Encryption”Submitted Understanding 3D Graphics as a story · 38 points
HN discussionA cool property of volume rendering is that it requires much simpler calculations than other 3D rendering problems. It's simple enough that you can use Homomorphic Encryption to calculate the rendering of _encrypted_ medical data! Here is my summary of it[1] and the original paper[2] I found this in [1] https://azeemba.com/posts/homomorphic-encryption-with-images... [2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.02122
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on “Show HN: Volume rendering 3D data in Three.js and GLSL”Submitted Certificate Authorities and the Fragility of Internet Safety as a story · 37 points
HN discussionThe animation looks awesome! Looks like the author used matplotlib (as they mention in a comment on the website): https://github.com/vankessel/sandbox/blob/master/graph/inter... In the past, I have used manim to make mathematical animations: https://www.manim.community/ Manim is more flexible but that comes with some overhead of complexity and learning. Example of some animations using manim: - List of videos using…
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on “Visualizing Complex Functions”Submitted C++, Complexity, and Compiler Bugs as a story · 24 points
HN discussionI had written an intro level blog post exploring image analysis use HME: https://azeemba.com/posts/homomorphic-encryption-with-images... One paper I used showed how X-rays can be analyzed without exposing the X-ray data itself. This can be generalized more to any situation where one party owns a proprietary algorithm and another party owns sensitive input data but they don't trust each other. Modern LLMs are actuall…
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on “Cryptographers Solve Decades-Old Privacy Problem”Submitted Why Is Mars's Moon Traveling the Wrong Way? as a story · 14 points
HN discussion"Of the 4,000 skaters in the Skatepark of Tampa Database, about half are goofy (44%) and half are regular (56%). But this near equality between skate stances doesn’t align with statistics on handedness. According to Scientific American, 90% of people are right-handed." ¹ "Out of the 610 professional skateboarders, 291 ride regular and 329 ride goofy. This means that 53% of skateboarders ride goofy and 47% ride regul…
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on “Why is almost everyone right-handed?”Submitted Understanding 3D Graphics as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Certificate Authorities and the Fragility of Internet Safety as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted C++, Complexity, and Compiler Bugs as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Satisfaction of Render Pipelines as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted C++, Complexity, and Compiler Bugs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding 3D Graphics as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Double Space Court Case: court case spends weeks arguing about formatting as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Infinite Systems Failing in a Finite World as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Breaking Changes in Distributed Systems as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is a URL: Dangers of Inconsistent Parsing of URLs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Infinity plus 1: Finding Larger Infinities as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted C++, Complexity, and Compiler Bugs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Number Detective: Explaining an unexpected numerical pattern as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Double Space Court Case as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pi in Other Universes: How the value of pi depends on the definition of distance as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Intuition for Cryptography as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Improving Git's Autocorrect Feature as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stochastic Parrots Can Be Intelligent as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Extrapolating From Existence: Is it surprising that we exist now? as a story · 1 points
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