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Brady Haran
Personal blog · bradyharanblog.com/blogsciencemath
Brady Haran's personal blog at bradyharanblog.com covers science and math. Since 2015, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Brady Haran's blog for its status update on the Hello Internet podcast and a personal tribute post about meeting mathematician Ron Graham.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Brady Haran is a video journalist. Maker of Numberphile, Periodic Videos, Sixty Symbols and other projects.
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/the-day-i-met-ron-graham2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-07
What Hacker News says?
Brady put out a short blog post on the status of Hello Internet about 5 months ago. I felt a bit betrayed as an avid listener that they so suddenly and without any notice for several months stopped putting out episodes, but at least this blog seems to indicate that they simply have their focuses elsewhere for now. https://www.bradyharanblog.com/hello-internet
Comment linking /hello-internet
on “Popular YouTubers who are building their own sites”Submitted N+7 Writing as a story · 55 points
HN discussionBrady posted a nice tribute: https://www.bradyharanblog.com/blog/the-day-i-met-ron-graham
Comment linking /blog/the-day-i-met-ron-graham
on “Ron Graham has died”Submitted Herschel's Mysterious Doodle as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHere's a previous HN submission about finding Waldo in pi (spoiler: only by cheating significantly re what counts as "Waldo"): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30872676 I googled around trying to figure out what year James McKee created the Trinity Hall prime. The internet is (IMO) presenting it mainly as some kind of Wonder of the Ancient World — with the date of creation conveniently filed off. The first post…
Comment linking /blog/artistic-prime-numbers
on “Prime numbers so memorable that people hunt for them”https://www.bradyharanblog.com/blog/the-day-i-met-ron-graham
Comment linking /blog/the-day-i-met-ron-graham
on “Ron Graham has left us”
