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Igor Pak
Personal blog · igorpak.wordpress.commathcareer
Igor Pak's personal blog at igorpak.wordpress.com covers math and career. Since 2014, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “What if they are all wrong? (2020)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked only as a bare 'Related' link to a 2020 post on guest publishing, the kind of special-issue arrangement at issue in a thread about a journal retracting all 23 articles in one special issue.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Views on life and math
Most-linked posts?
- What if they are all wrong? (2020)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-10-12
What Hacker News says?
Related: https://igorpak.wordpress.com/2020/10/26/the-guest-publishin...
Comment linking /2020/10/26/the-guest-publishing-scam/
on “Journal retracts all 23 articles in special issue”Submitted The bunkbed conjecture is false as a story · 189 points
HN discussionSubmitted What if they are all wrong? (2020) as a story · 74 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is Combinatorics? (2013) as a story · 28 points
HN discussionSubmitted What if they are all wrong? (2020) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The insidious corruption of open access publishers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Not to reference papers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Concise Functions and Spanning Trees as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What to Expect in the AI Era as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What if they are all wrong? (2020) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Deserve Better Journals as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How NOT to Reference Papers (2014) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Guest Publishing Scam as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Start a Paper? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What If Math Dies? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
