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Gareth Jones

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Gareth Jones's personal blog at gazj.substack.com covers writing and culture. Since 2022, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 31 times, most often “Python and the Legend of Zelda”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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Why HN links it

Gareth Jones writes about Python and puzzles, such as a brute-force solution to a Legend of Zelda puzzle. One commenter links the Zelda post in a Sudoku thread about problem solving.

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.

Just a bloke, father of two. A bit tired. Click to read Gareth Jones on Substack. Launched a year ago.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Python and the Legend of Zelda
    6 people · 16 mentions · first linked 2022-02-01

What Hacker News says?

  1. Also, using a similar trick as with the dominoes, can a certain Legend of Zelda puzzle be solved? https://gazj.substack.com/p/python-and-the-legend-of-zelda?s... Article doesn't contain a mathematical proof (only a brute force one), but I wrote one up. Spoilers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30639211

    Comment linking /p/python-and-the-legend-of-zelda?s=r

    on “What do new Sudoku techniques teach us about real-world problem solving?”
  2. Submitted Python and the Legend of Zelda as a story · 4 points

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  3. Submitted The Not All Scotsman Fallacy as a story · 3 points

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  6. Submitted The Not All Scotsman Fallacy as a story · 2 points

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  7. Submitted Opinions in an Objective Reality as a story · 2 points

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  8. Submitted Opinions in an Objective Reality as a story · 2 points

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  9. Submitted Your Favorite Color Is Orange as a story · 2 points

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  10. Submitted Solving a classic Legend of Zelda puzzle using Python as a story · 2 points

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  12. Submitted Solving a classic Legend of Zelda puzzle using Python as a story · 2 points

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  17. Submitted Motivation vs. Discipline as a story · 1 points

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  18. Submitted Python and the Legend of Zelda – By Gaz J – Gaz’s Thoughts as a story · 1 points

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  19. Submitted Legend of Zelda and Python as a story · 1 points

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  20. Submitted The Not All Scotsman Fallacy as a story · 1 points

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  21. Submitted Opinions in an Objective Reality as a story · 1 points

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  22. Submitted Python and the Legend of Zelda as a story · 1 points

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  23. Submitted On Opinions and Perspective as a story · 1 points

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  25. Submitted Solving a class Legend of Zelda puzzle with Python as a story · 1 points

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  26. Submitted Unfollow Everyone as a story · 1 points

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  27. Submitted Consider Leaving Twitch's Affiliate Program as a story · 1 points

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  28. Submitted Your Favorite Color Is Orange as a story · 1 points

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  29. Submitted Why I Left Twitch's Affiliate Program as a story · 1 points

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  30. Submitted Solving a classic Legend of Zelda puzzle using Python as a story · 1 points

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