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Growing SWE
Personal blog · growingswe.com/blogprogrammingmath
Growing SWE is a personal blog at growingswe.com about programming and math. Since 2026, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “An interactive intro to Elliptic Curve Cryptography”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for interactive, animated, visual explainers on math, computer science and machine learning, such as TLS ECH and probability. One commenter ranks it top-tier.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Weekly deep-dives into computer science concepts through interactive visualizations. Learning by building, one schematic at a time.
Most-linked posts?
- An interactive intro to Elliptic Curve Cryptography3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-03-01
- /blog2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-03-09
- MicroGPT Explained Interactively2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-03-01
- How LDAP Works2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-27
- What is a file format? An interactive guide2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-02
- How you invent math: From counting to complex numbers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-25
- An Interactive Intro to Quadtrees2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-24
- TLS ECH (Encrypted Client Hello) Visually Explained2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-04
What Hacker News says?
I've been writing interactive math and computer science articles at https://growingswe.com/blog . The past few months, I have been obsessed with interactive learning experiences and currently building https://math.growingswe.com for learning probability.
Comment linking /blog
on “Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)”Submitted TLS ECH (Encrypted Client Hello) Visually Explained as a story · 4 points
HN discussionClickable: - Animated explanation of how transformers work https://poloclub.github.io/transformer-explainer/ - Visual intro to K-means clustering algorithm https://k-means-explorable.vercel.app/ - Animated 3D intro to vision LLMs https://blog.mdturp.ch/posts/2024-04-05-visual_guide_to_visi... - Animated intro to machine learning https://r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/ - Animated intro to probability…
Comment linking /blog/elliptic-curve-cryptography
on “Read HN twice a day for the last decade. Here's my list of S-Tier HN links”Submitted Points on a ring: An interactive walkthrough of a popular math problem as a story · 4 points
HN discussion- S-TIER blogs are those that are animated, visual, interactive and absolutely blow your mind off - A-TIER are highly informative and you ll learn something - opinion blogs at the absolute bottom of the tier list because everyone everywhere ll always have an opinion about everything and my life is too short to be reading all that - these are the S-TIER ones on my system - https://growingswe.com/blog - https://ciecha…
Comment linking /blog
on “Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen?”Submitted How you invent math: From counting to complex numbers as a story · 3 points
HN discussion- A previous comment by me about my list of absolutely gorgeous, interactive, animated, high dynamic learning resources classified as S TIER - S-TIER blogs are those that are animated, visual, interactive and absolutely blow your mind off - A-TIER are highly informative and you ll learn something - opinion blogs at the absolute bottom of the tier list because everyone everywhere ll always have an opinion about every…
Comment linking /blog
on “A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning”Submitted An Interactive Intro to Quadtrees as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI've written a visual article about TLS ECH, in case anyone doesn't have time to read this RFC: https://growingswe.com/blog/tls-ech
Comment linking /blog/tls-ech
on “RFC 9849. TLS Encrypted Client Hello”Submitted MicroGPT Explained Interactively as a story · 2 points
HN discussionGreat stuff! I wrote an interactive blogpost that walks through the code and visualizes it: https://growingswe.com/blog/microgpt
Comment linking /blog/microgpt
on “Microgpt”Submitted How LDAP Works as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is a File Format? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted An interactive intro to Elliptic Curve Cryptography as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is a file format? An interactive guide as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted MicroGPT Explained Interactively as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elliptic Curve Cryptography as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How LDAP Works as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How you invent math: From counting to complex numbers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Interactive Intro to Quadtrees as a story · 1 points
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