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Ignacio Brasca
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Ignacio Brasca writes Happiness Machines, a personal blog at blog.ignaciobrasca.com about programming and career. Since 2022, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 34 times, most often “Practical Math: My Journey from Idea to Application”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Comments link posts on tech work, such as "A normal week (in tech)", and applied software maths. They mostly discuss Lobsters moderation and a broken link, not 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.
Technical and not-so technical articles I write
Most-linked posts?
- Practical Math: My Journey from Idea to Application3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-07-30
- An Idea on Distraction2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-01
- A Normal Week2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-14
- A JavaScript Nightmare2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-16
What Hacker News says?
The moderation is quite arbitrary. Here are three specific examples I've noted: 1. "Don't hate Jira, hate your manager." https://lobste.rs/s/n4v6a8/you_don_t_hate_jira_you_hate_your... is okay but "Making time for planning" https://lobste.rs/messages/h9z5ee is not (Management is off-topic.) 2. "A normal week (in tech)" https://blog.ignaciobrasca.com/work/2023/05/01/a-normal-week... is not okay (Article does not rela…
Comment linking /work/2023/05/01/a-normal-week.html
on “Lobsters”Submitted A JavaScript Nightmare as a story · 47 points
HN discussionI get a 404. The correct URL seams to be https://blog.ignaciobrasca.com/opinion/2024/07/29/practical-... (Did he change the blog engine and the URL were rewritten?)
Comment linking /opinion/2024/07/29/practical-math.html
on “"the first time ever I applied literal textbook math to a piece of software"”Submitted A JavaScript Nightmare as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Focus On One Thing as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Your Own Desire to Know as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The danger of reading everything online as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted "the first time ever I applied literal textbook math to a piece of software" as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Practical Math: My Journey from Idea to Application as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Synthetic Restrictions as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Look mom I built a computer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted On being bored as a technology enthusiast as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Won't Need to Know as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exploring SQLite with Go using the C API (cgo) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I Take Notes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Idea on Distraction as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Idea on Distraction as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Practical Math: My Journey from Idea to Application as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Copilot Disable as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How much is too much? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Speed of Failing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Devil Is in the Details as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bosses and bad ideas, a tale from corporate software as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Code Is an Afterthought as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Wrong Kind of Hard as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Perpetual Changing Space as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted All the Fallacies in the World as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted About Time and Alphabets as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted My essential toolkit for local data manipulation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why data is hard (as a startup) as a story · 1 points
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