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Cory Li

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Cory Li writes Cory's Notes, a personal blog at cory.li about programming and games. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Hacking java bytecode”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.

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6mentions?
3HN people?
2013–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2016

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link Cory Li's posts for an overview of the Battlecode AI programming competition and for open-sourced code from a 2012 winning bot. The thread comment is a bare link with a description.

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.

A collection of notes from Cory Li, a random kid studying the wonders of computers and biology.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Hacking java bytecode
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-01-07

What Hacker News says?

  1. If anyone is interested in learning more specifically about the Battlecode competition, I wrote a blog post giving a brief overview of the competition a few years ago: http://cory.li/battlecode-intro/ Also, we open sourced our winning 2012 bot on bitbucket here if you want to see the type of code that goes into it: https://bitbucket.org/Cixelyn/bcode2012-bot

    Comment linking /battlecode-intro/

    on “Battlecode – AI Programming Competition”
  2. Submitted Battlecode: MIT's longest-running hardcore programming competition as a story · 185 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Hacking java bytecode as a story · 93 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Fun with solving puzzles (and dragons): Thoughts after 500 days of PAD as a story · 67 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Java bytecode hacking for fun and profit as a story · 17 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Java bytecode hacking for fun and profit (2014) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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