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David Wakeham

Personal blog · hapax.github.iosciencemath

David Wakeham's personal blog at hapax.github.io covers science and math. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Hacking physics from the back of a napkin (2020)”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Hacking physics from the back of a napkin (2020)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-03

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted Hacking physics from the back of a napkin (2020) as a story · 122 points

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  2. Submitted Dimensional Analysis and Black Holes (2019) [pdf] as a story · 63 points

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  3. Submitted Hacking Physics from the Back of a Napkin as a story · 3 points

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  4. Submitted Hairy Shadows as a story · 2 points

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  5. Submitted The statistical basis of Fermi estimates(2021) as a story · 1 points

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  6. Submitted Hacking Physics from the Back of a Napkin(2020) as a story · 1 points

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