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echevarria.io
Personal blog · echevarria.io/blog · on HN as ivanechprogrammingculture
echevarria.io is a personal blog at echevarria.io about programming and culture. Since 2018, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 35 times, most often “Creating and morphing Lego faces with neural networks”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog in discussions of the Mighty project and the pushback it received. One commenter used it to connect that criticism to Paul Graham's essay on envy.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- Creating and morphing Lego faces with neural networks3 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2020-02-04
- The Mighty pushback isn't all about Mighty2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-05
- Flowers Make a Nice Gift2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-09-04
What Hacker News says?
https://echevarria.io Started on it in undergrad to have a place of my own for photos and programming projects. I've slowly expanded it for the past few years. Heavily inspired by Tom MacWright's https://macwright.com
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted The Matrix looks dramatically different on Hulu versus on HBO Max as a story · 218 points
HN discussionI would appreciate any feedback: https://www.echevarria.io/ . It's just basic HTML, CSS, and I think three small scripts for the whole thing.
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on “Building a Kickass Portfolio”Submitted Flowers Make a Nice Gift as a story · 214 points
HN discussionIn May 2021 Paul Graham wrote Crazy New Ideas [1], in which he explained that envy is the only reason people criticize ideas by "reasonable domain experts". This was widely understood at the time to refer to critics of Mighty[2][3]. [1]: http://paulgraham.com/newideas.html [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27062713 [3]: https://www.echevarria.io/blog/the-mighty-pushback-isnt-all-...
Comment linking /blog/the-mighty-pushback-isnt-all-about-mighty/index.html
on “I decided to stop working on Mighty”Submitted Casting pig iron at the Iroquois smelter as a story · 64 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating and morphing Lego faces with neural networks as a story · 31 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bill and Ted and what art is for as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Eames Lounge Chair was always expensive as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Eames Lounge Chair was always expensive as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bradfield School of Computer Science is Phenomenal as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating and morphing Lego faces with neural networks as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Eames Lounge Chair was always expensive as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Caltrain Ridership as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Casting pig iron at the Iroquois smelter as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Value of an In-House Adversary as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Value of an In-House Adversary as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Give Now, Not Later as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Mighty pushback isn't all about Mighty as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generative Lego Heads as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Variational Autoencoder for Lego Faces as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Variational Autoencoder for Lego Faces as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Sorting Visualization as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Flowers Make a Nice Gift as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bradfield School of Computer Science Is Phenomenal as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bradfield School of Computer Science Is Phenomenal as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Consistent daily price oscillations on the Steam Community Market as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted An interesting way to pack bytes into a MIDI SysEx message as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Consistent daily price pattern on the Steam Community Market as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted An interesting way to pack bytes into a MIDI SYSEX message as a story · 1 points
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