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Personal blog · aerique.blogspot.comprogramminggamesai

Ceci n'est pas un titre is a personal blog at aerique.blogspot.com about programming, games and ai. Since 2009, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Baby Steps into Genetic Programming”. The last post was in 2012, but the archive is still widely read.

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11mentions?
6HN people?
2009–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2010

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

Why HN links it

Submitted to HN and Reddit as an article about the author's experience with Google AdSense ad placement and the low earnings it produced. The comment reports traffic and earnings figures.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Baby Steps into Genetic Programming
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-01-18

What Hacker News says?

  1. aerique · 2011-01-25
    One or two weeks ago I submitted an article[1] I posted to my blog to both HN and Reddit. I also added a Google Ads block hidden in the sidebar (admittedly not the best spot) to get some experience with Adsense since I had never used it before. So far I'm on 6000 page impressions and 5 clicks with the estimated earning of a pack of chewing gum. So extrapolate from this what you will if I had plastered more ads in mo…

    Comment linking /2011/01/baby-steps-into-genetic-programming.html

    on “An Easy Way to Improve User Experience”
  2. todsacerdoti · 2025-04-06

    Submitted Baby Steps into Genetic Programming as a story · 122 points

    HN discussion
  3. mnemonik · 2010-09-06

    Submitted New Google AI Challenge: Planet Wars as a story · 84 points

    HN discussion
  4. aerique · 2011-01-18

    Submitted Baby Steps into Genetic Programming as a story · 82 points

    HN discussion
  5. jast · 2009-10-21

    Submitted Using a 3D engine from Common Lisp with the foreign function interface as a story · 26 points

    HN discussion
  6. wglb · 2010-02-05

    Submitted Google AI Challenge 2010: Lisp Starter Pack as a story · 24 points

    HN discussion
  7. aerique · 2012-04-06

    Submitted Open Letter to Online Game Developers: Allow Bots as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  8. mnemonik · 2010-02-10

    Submitted Erik Winkels: Google AI Challenge 2010 & Common Lisp as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  9. jotto · 2016-10-14

    Submitted Baby Steps into Genetic Programming (2011) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. mnemonik · 2010-09-09

    Submitted Planet Wars: Common Lisp Starter Package (Google AI Challenge) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. wglb · 2010-02-01

    Submitted A Black Tie and a Clysma as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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