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Content-Type: text/shitpost is a personal blog at shitpost.plover.com about math and culture. Since 2017, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “How Graphviz thinks the USA is laid out”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Humorous posts on programming and mathematics. Commenters link its monad post, which jokes that a monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors, and an omega-omega post, without comment on the writing.
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?
- How Graphviz thinks the USA is laid out3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-01-01
What Hacker News says?
compare https://shitpost.plover.com/o/omega-omega.html
Comment linking /o/omega-omega.html
on “Breaking down tasks”Submitted The duties of John von Neumann's assistant (1993) as a story · 249 points
HN discussionBut then there's https://shitpost.plover.com/m/monad.html > The more I think about this, the more it seems to me that a monad is not at all a monoid in the category of endofunctors, but actually a monoidal subcategory. > That's the problem.
Comment linking /m/monad.html
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