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Computing, Math and Beauty
Personal blog · blog.yellowflash.inprogrammingmath
Computing, Math and Beauty is a personal blog at blog.yellowflash.in about programming and math. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Fixpoints to think clearly”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a mathematically flavoured post asking why stable reality requires λ² = λ and 1. The one comment discusses fixed points and idempotency and does not judge the writing.
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?
- Fixpoints to think clearly2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-03
- Constraint Satisfaction with Continuations2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-01-04
What Hacker News says?
Since you seem to be having fun but not a boomer and maybe even have a day job, don't mind grandfather. he has a vendetta against crackpots, but you don't fit that mold I think the technical term is "idempotency", please look up fixed points[0] or "Lyapounov".. (academia.edu feels scammy I did not click. Taleb uses it but I don't read his technical stuff tbh) yes it is underappreciated.. Eg when applied to the Bethe…
Comment linking /posts/2026-03-03-fixpoints-for-clarity.html
on “Why Stable Reality Requires λ² = λ and 1”Submitted Similarity join (Min-hash) as a story · 60 points
HN discussionSubmitted Constraint Satisfaction with Continuations as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pure IO as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Conversation with Claude on Reasoning as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Similarity joins on large datasets – Minhash as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Constraint Satisfaction with Continuations (Scala) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fixpoints to think clearly as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Carefully Reading Programming Bitcoin as a story · 1 points
HN discussion