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Erik McClure
Personal blog · blackhole12.blogspot.comprogrammingmath
Erik McClure's personal blog at blackhole12.blogspot.com covers programming and math. Since 2011, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 50 times. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment is a list of other tech blogs and podcasts in a thread on what people follow outside HN. It does not discuss this blog's writing, so its subject is unclear from the comments.
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.
Thoughts from a code-wielding applied mathematician
What Hacker News says?
The good tech picks are already posted, so I'd like to share a bit of a broader scoped list: - Adrian Kennard's (revk - CEO of Andrews & Arnolds UK ISP) blog: http://www.revk.uk/ - GOV.uk's digital services blog [UX, Design, Govt]: https://gds.blog.gov.uk/ - Canonical design blog [UX & Design]: http://design.canonical.com/ - CGPGrey, excellent youtuber and podcaster [misc. history/politics/sciences]: http://www.cgpg…
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on “Ask HN: What tech blogs, podcasts do you follow outside of HN?”Submitted Google's Decline Really Bugs Me as a story · 411 points
HN discussionhttp://blackhole12.blogspot.com for programming related rants or the occasional personal post from a rabbit-obsessed graphics programmer who says a lot of crazy things. Sometimes people even listen to me! But usually they just tell me I'm an idiot.
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on “Ask HN: What's your blog?”Submitted The Problem With Photorealism as a story · 163 points
HN discussionSubmitted "Programmer" is an Overgeneralization as a story · 156 points
HN discussionSubmitted I'm Slowly Losing My Mind as a story · 142 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I Learned In College as a story · 118 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mathematical Notation Is Awful as a story · 69 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Used to Want to Work for Google as a story · 63 points
HN discussionSubmitted Analyzing XKCD: Click and Drag as a story · 35 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hey Github, Remember This Article? as a story · 30 points
HN discussionSubmitted Problems Raytracing Doesn't Solve as a story · 28 points
HN discussionSubmitted Never Reinventing the Wheel Is Anticompetitive as a story · 27 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I Never Built My SoundCloud Killer as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Can't Fix People as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted DirectX Is Terrifying as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Microsoft Internship as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't be a Codemonkey as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can The Human Race Please Stop Sucking For 5 Minutes? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Teenage Rebellion as a Failure of Society as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted IP Law Makes You an Asshole as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Windows Won't Let My Program Crash as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Does Anyone Actually Want Good Software? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Use Is a Good Job? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted An evidence-based refutation of the Project Glass parodies as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making Binaural Recordings With Earbuds/Headphones as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Your Esoteric Language is Useless as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Discord: Rise of the Bot Wars as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Can't Hear Anything Below 80 Hz as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Windows Won't Let My Program Crash as a story · 2 points
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