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Eavan's Blog
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Eavan's Blog is a personal blog at eavan.blog about math, programming and systems. Since 2025, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “The Biggest Identity Sandpiles and How to Compute Them”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Eavan's posts on Abelian sandpiles, which include interactive sandpile visualisations and a method for computing much larger identity sandpiles faster than a simple algorithm.
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?
- The Biggest Identity Sandpiles and How to Compute Them3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-03-08
What Hacker News says?
It seems like it spills to 4 directions on Chrome, but only up and left on Firefox. The really weird part is that when I fetch https://eavan.blog/sandpile.js in Chrome, I see a "toppleAll" function near the top, but that same function is not defined when the script is fetched with Firefox.
Comment linking /sandpile.js
on “Beautiful Abelian Sandpiles”Submitted Beautiful Abelian Sandpiles as a story · 154 points
HN discussionWhen I wrote Beautiful Abelian Sandpiles ( https://eavan.blog/posts/beautiful-sandpiles.html ) I wanted to show off some nice images of large identity sandpiles. But the simple algorithm I used was horrendously slow. Showing a sandpile identity that was larger than 100 by 100 took multiple seconds! That's not good enough! I became obsessed with trying to find a faster way, all in an effort to compute bigger and bigg…
Comment linking /posts/beautiful-sandpiles.html
on “The Biggest Identity Sandpiles and How to Compute Them”Submitted Please Implement This Simple SLO as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Biggest Identity Sandpiles and How to Compute Them as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Multi Window Multi Burn Rate SLO Alerting Sucks as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Biggest Identity Sandpiles and How to Compute Them as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Biggest Identity Sandpiles and How to Compute Them as a story · 1 points
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