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Bits and Bytes
Personal blog · blog.timothymullican.comsecurityprogramming
Bits and Bytes is a personal blog at blog.timothymullican.com about security and programming. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Calculating Pi: My Attempt at Breaking the Pi World Record”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Bits and Bytes for a post on calculating 100 trillion digits of pi on Google Cloud, discussed alongside earlier pi-record threads.
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.
the ramblings of a sysadmin / cyber security professional
Most-linked posts?
- Calculating Pi: My Attempt at Breaking the Pi World Record3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-01-31
What Hacker News says?
Thread from 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31679007 For some reason the blog post mentions the 31.4T record and the 62.8T record, but not the 50T record [1]. Weird. [1] https://blog.timothymullican.com/calculating-pi-my-attempt-b...
Comment linking /calculating-pi-my-attempt-breaking-pi-record
on “Even more pi in the sky: Calculating 100T digits of pi on Google Cloud”Submitted Calculating Pi: My Attempt at Breaking the Pi World Record as a story · 138 points
HN discussionSubmitted Calculating Pi: My Attempt at Breaking the Pi World Record as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Calculating Pi: My Attempt at Breaking the Pi World Record as a story · 2 points
HN discussion