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Heiko's Blog

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Heiko's Blog is a personal blog at hseeberger.wordpress.com about programming and math. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Introduction to Category Theory in Scala”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.

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5mentions?
4HN people?
2010–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2010

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link Heiko's blog for its introduction to category theory in Scala, a post on functional programming in Scala.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Introduction to Category Theory in Scala
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-09-24

What Hacker News says?

  1. I found this one quite approachable: https://hseeberger.wordpress.com/2010/11/25/introduction-to-...

    Comment linking /2010/11/25/introduction-to-category-theory-in-scala/

    on ““Mostly functional” programming does not work (2014)”
  2. Submitted Introduction to Category Theory in Scala as a story · 56 points

    HN discussion
  3. The link appears broken. Here's one that should work: http://hseeberger.wordpress.com/2010/11/25/introduction-to-c...

    Comment linking /2010/11/25/introduction-to-category-theory-in-scala/

    on “Introduction to Category Theory in Scala”
  4. Submitted Introduction to Category Theory in Scala as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Introduction to Category Theory in Scala as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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