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A hint of chaos

Personal blog · gkosev.blogspot.comprogrammingweb

A hint of chaos is a personal blog at gkosev.blogspot.com about programming and web. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Fixing Hacker News: A mathematical approach”. The last post was in 2012, but the archive is still widely read.

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5mentions?
3HN people?
2012–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link this blog's posts on Hacker News statistics and a proposed way to fix HN's ranking mathematically, and one commenter lists it among HN analysis links. No comment judges the writing itself.

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.

code, music, math

Most-linked posts?

  1. Fixing Hacker News: A mathematical approach
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-08-21

What Hacker News says?

  1. spion · 2012-12-09
    I guess I am going to pitch my potential solution again: http://gkosev.blogspot.com/2012/08/fixing-hacker-news-mathem... it would probably have more weight when i release the test code and datasets though...

    Comment linking /2012/08/fixing-hacker-news-mathematical-approach.html?m=1

    on “How would I get started?”
  2. spion · 2012-08-21

    Submitted Fixing Hacker News: A mathematical approach as a story · 155 points

    HN discussion
  3. gwern · 2015-08-12
    Here's a list of relevant links I've compiled over the past year or two: - http://nathanael.hevenet.com/the-best-time-to-post-on-hacker... - http://minimaxir.com/2014/02/hacking-hacker-news/ - http://minimaxir.com/2014/10/hn-comments-about-comments/ - http://karpathy.ca/myblog/2013/11/27/quantifying-hacker-news... https://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/hn_analysis.html - http://metamarkets.com/2011/hacking-hacker-n…

    Comment linking /2012/08/fixing-hacker-news-mathematical-approach.html

    on “Ask HN: Any HN stats analysis been done?”
  4. spion · 2012-12-13

    Submitted We can make most web apps work on the iPad. Even Google Docs. as a story · 65 points

    HN discussion
  5. gdamjan · 2012-08-10

    Submitted Why native development sucks and HTML5 rocks: Porting to Windows 8 as a story · 42 points

    HN discussion

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