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Evan Chen
Personal blog · blog.evanchen.ccmathprogrammingculture
Evan Chen writes Power Overwhelming, a personal blog at blog.evanchen.cc about math, programming and culture. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, 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 Evan Chen's blog post on writing as a way to clarify thinking. Commenters also mention his Math Olympiad geometry book. One commenter calls the writing post one of the best they have read.
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.
Evan Chen's blog. Math, Linux, teaching, puzzle hunts, and the like.
Most-linked posts?
- /2015/03/14/writing/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-11
What Hacker News says?
Another Chinese-American came to the same conclusion seven years earlier: So what is the purpose of writing? It turns out that there is one, and that it has nothing to do with communication. It’s that writing clarifies thinking. [1] [1] https://blog.evanchen.cc/2015/03/14/writing/
Comment linking /2015/03/14/writing/
on “Don’t think to write, write to think”Submitted ___ Students Have to Suffer (2016) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionEvan Chen is a very valuable person in the Math Olympiad scene. The Geometry book [1] he wrote in high school is required reading for any serious competitor and I believe he is the main responsible for some bringing some techniques into the olympic meta, such as Barycentric Coordinates. Also, his blog post [2] about writing is one of the best ones I've ever read. [1] https://web.evanchen.cc/geombook.html [2] https:/…
Comment linking /2015/03/14/writing/
on “An Infinitely Large Napkin [pdf]”Submitted Things I've learned from running OTIS as a story · 1 points
HN discussion