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Chris Zetter

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Chris Zetter's personal blog at chriszetter.com covers programming and web. Since 2013, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Splitting Strings”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-20, and you can follow it by feed.

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12mentions?
7HN people?
2013–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2014

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link Chris Zetter's blog for its Voronoi map tutorial, which explains how the UK supermarkets Voronoi map was made. The thread is about a World Airports Voronoi map.

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.

Personal site and blog of Chris Zetter.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Splitting Strings
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-10-30

What Hacker News says?

  1. NKosmatos · 2018-06-20Recommends
    Just so that other people don't have to search: http://lpetrich.org/Science/GeometryDemo/GeometryDemo_GMap.h... and a very good tutorial: https://chriszetter.com/blog/2014/06/15/building-a-voronoi-m... on how the UK supermarkets Voronoi map was made: https://chriszetter.com/voronoi-map/examples/uk-supermarkets... also have a look at (code included): http://bl.ocks.org/shimizu/5610671

    Comment linking /voronoi-map/examples/uk-supermarkets/

    on “World Airports Voronoi (2014)”
  2. Submitted Mapping Anything with BSicons as a story · 80 points

    HN discussion
  3. You can see the map itself: http://chriszetter.com/voronoi-map/examples/uk-supermarkets/ And the code is on github: https://github.com/zetter/voronoi-maps

    Comment linking /voronoi-map/examples/uk-supermarkets/

    on “Building a Voronoi Map with D3 and Leaflet”
  4. Submitted Visualizing Changes to Rail Services as a story · 57 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Adventures in RubyMotion: The App Store in 2 weeks as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Splitting Strings as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Three Small Things You Can Do in JavaScript as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Splitting Strings as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Building a Voronoi Map with D3 and Leaflet as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Splitting (Empty) Strings (2017) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Impersonating the government – fixing a security issue in Alaveteli as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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