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Harry Brundage

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Harry Brundage's personal blog at harry.me covers programming and math. Since 2011, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Neat Algorithms: Paxos”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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23mentions?
15HN people?
2011–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2011

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link Harry Brundage's blog post on the Paxos consensus algorithm, which includes an interactive JavaScript visualization of how the algorithm works.

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.

Harry Brundage's personal site

Most-linked posts?

  1. Neat Algorithms: Paxos
    7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2014-12-27
  2. Neat Algorithms – Flocking
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-12-31
  3. Neat Algorithms - Flocking
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-02-21
  4. JavaScript Documentation Sucks
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-01-31

What Hacker News says?

  1. Here you can find an example in JavaScript that visualizes the Paxos algorithm: http://harry.me/blog/2014/12/27/neat-algorithms-paxos/

    Comment linking /blog/2014/12/27/neat-algorithms-paxos/

    on “Understanding consensus and Paxos in distributed systems”
  2. Submitted Neat Algorithms: Paxos as a story · 331 points

    HN discussion
  3. daurnimator · 2015-08-26Recommends
    http://harry.me/blog/2014/12/27/neat-algorithms-paxos/ is quite a good article for an introduction to PAXOS. Last time on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8806835

    Comment linking /blog/2014/12/27/neat-algorithms-paxos/

    on “Paxos Made Moderately Complex”
  4. Submitted Neat Algorithms - Flocking as a story · 220 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Neat Algorithms - Flocking as a story · 160 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Today, Web Development Sucks as a story · 136 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Neat Algorithms - Harmony Search as a story · 65 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Neat Algorithms - Flocking as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted JavaScript Documentation Sucks as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Neat Algorithms: Paxos as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted JavaScript Documentation Sucks as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Paxos Visualisation as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Neat Algorithms – Paxos (2014) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Neat Algorithms – Paxos as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted On Software Development Metrics as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted On Software Development Metrics as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Neat Algorithms – Paxos as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Draw a Circle Around It as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Neat Algorithms – Flocking as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Neat Algorithms – Flocking as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted I'd like to have an argument: A primer on Consensus as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted JavaScript Documentation Sucks as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Neat Algorithms - Flocking as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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