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Carl Chatfield
Personal blog · blog.chatfield.iomathprogramming
Carl Chatfield's personal blog at blog.chatfield.io covers math and programming. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Simple Method for Distance to Ellipse”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The one linked post is a writeup on a simple method for computing distance to an ellipse. It was shared in a thread about the monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time.
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 and Ramblings
Most-linked posts?
- Simple Method for Distance to Ellipse3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-01-04
What Hacker News says?
It's been a long time, but here is the writeup https://blog.chatfield.io/simple-method-for-distance-to-elli...
Comment linking /simple-method-for-distance-to-ellipse/
on “Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time”Submitted Asymmetric Logistics: The Case for a Ukrainian Drone Lift as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simple Method for Distance to Ellipse as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simple Method for Distance to Ellipse (2017) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion