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Changizi Blog

Personal blog · changizi.wordpress.comsciencephilosophy

Changizi Blog is a personal blog at changizi.wordpress.com about science and philosophy. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2011–2011first – last linked?

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked as the rules for a plastic animal chess variant, the rules a GeekDad article about an 8-year-old reinventing chess referenced but did not include. Comments only share the link.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. /2011/04/20/plastic-animal-chess-my-daughters-chess-game/
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-04-25

What Hacker News says?

  1. ...and so you post this, which is hypocritical on the face of it. Since you seems to have missed the rules referenced in the article, here they are: http://changizi.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/plastic-animal-ches...

    Comment linking /2011/04/20/plastic-animal-chess-my-daughters-chess-game/

    on “A GeekDad’s 8-Year Old Daughter Reinvents Chess”
  2. Submitted The Colorful Smell of Richard Dawkins: Is Your and My Red the Same as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  3. Found a link to the rules in the comments: http://changizi.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/plastic-animal-ches...

    Comment linking /2011/04/20/plastic-animal-chess-my-daughters-chess-game/

    on “A GeekDad’s 8-Year Old Daughter Reinvents Chess”

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