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Gábor Melis
Personal blog · quotenil.comprogrammingai
Gábor Melis's personal blog at quotenil.com covers programming and ai. Since 2009, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Adaptive Hashing”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Gábor Melis's blog covers Lisp projects, including post-mortems of the Google AI Challenge Planet Wars contest, matrix library design and literate programming. Commenters link it as the source for contest details.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Adaptive Hashing4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-05-02
- Google AI Challenge Winner Post-Mortem3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-12-02
- Google AI Challange 2010 Results2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-03-01
- On the Design of Matrix Libraries2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-04-03
What Hacker News says?
The first lines seemed familiar: http://quotenil.com/Planet-Wars-Post-Mortem.html
Comment linking /Planet-Wars-Post-Mortem.html
on “Winner of 2011 Google AI Challenge Describes Released Code”Submitted Google AI Challenge Winner Post-Mortem as a story · 138 points
HN discussionThe winner: http://quotenil.com/git/planet-wars.git/
Comment linking /git/planet-wars.git/
on “Lisp developer walks away with Google AI contest”Submitted Adaptive Hashing as a story · 56 points
HN discussionCan't believe this Reddit quality comment is getting any upvotes. Google AI Challenge is "Yet Another Contest"? Though you may not be surprised, he is, http://quotenil.com/Planet-Wars-Post-Mortem.html/ .
Comment linking /Planet-Wars-Post-Mortem.html/
on “Lisp developer walks away with Google AI contest”Submitted Adaptive Hashing as a story · 10 points
HN discussionRegarding the GPU, you might find an interest for MGL-MAT[1]: "MAT is a linear algebra library for working with multi-dimensional arrays which supports efficient interfacing to foreign and CUDA code. BLAS and CUBLAS bindings are available.". The author's blog is quite interesting to read (see for example [2]). [1] http://cliki.net/mgl-mat [2] I http://quotenil.com/On-the-Design-of-Matrix-Libraries.html
Comment linking /On-the-Design-of-Matrix-Libraries.html
on “Making Cython as easy as Python”Submitted Adaptive Hashing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHere's the post mortem by the winner of the subsequent AI contest: http://quotenil.com/Planet-Wars-Post-Mortem.html
Comment linking /Planet-Wars-Post-Mortem.html
on “How the Winning Tron Bot Works”Submitted Google AI Challange 2010 Results as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMore info here: http://quotenil.com/Google-AI-Challange-2010-Results.html
Comment linking /Google-AI-Challange-2010-Results.html
on “Google AI Challenge Results”Submitted Where was Control on Lisp Machine keyboards? as a story · 2 points
HN discussion- For many languages, we can get away with Untangled LP. See, e.g. https://quotenil.com/untangling-literate-programming.html - Introducing redundancies (of code, tests, documentation) is our primary tool to increase our confidence in the correctness of the solution: See, e.g. https://quotenil.com/multifaceted-development.html - Untangled LP has been a good idea even before LLMs. It's even better now, as LLMs can mai…
Comment linking /multifaceted-development.html
on “We should revisit literate programming in the agent era”Submitted Adaptive Hashing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted On the Design of Matrix Libraries as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introduction to MGL (part 3) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gábor Melis' () blog - Introduction to MGL (part 2) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introduction to MGL (part 1) as a story · 1 points
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