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Benjamin Pelc

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Benjamin Pelc's personal blog at bjpelc.wordpress.com covers programming and data. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Yet Another Language Speed Test – Counting Primes”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2015–2015first – last linked?

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked from a thread on a language speed test that counts primes. The only comment points to an update adding Go and Haskell to the benchmark, so HN readers use it for the follow-up results.

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.

Programming. Algorithms. Data Analysis.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Yet Another Language Speed Test – Counting Primes
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-06-30

What Hacker News says?

  1. Here's an update that includes Go and Haskell: https://bjpelc.wordpress.com/2015/01/13/yet-another-language...

    Comment linking /2015/01/13/yet-another-language-speed-test-go-golang/

    on “Yet Another Language Speed Test – Counting Primes”
  2. Submitted Yet Another Language Speed Test – Counting Primes as a story · 30 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Yet Another Language Speed Test: Counting Primes as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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