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Iouri Khramtsov
Personal blog · i-kh.netprogrammingproductivity
Iouri Khramtsov's personal blog at i-kh.net covers programming and productivity. Since 2019, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “My lazy Wordle strategy: same words every time”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Iouri Khramtsov's posts on how ion channels work in neurons and how signals propagate through them. The comments are bare links or a submission-correction note, so the writing itself is not judged.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Launched 2 months ago.
Most-linked posts?
- My lazy Wordle strategy: same words every time2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-22
- The magic of ion channels in the neurons2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-27
What Hacker News says?
I've been using an Excel file ( https://i-kh.net/2019/10/20/how-i-keep-the-side-project-movi... ) for week-to-week goals and tracking how I do. I find it's a bit more structured, and easier to review afterwards. Though I still use text file for organizing a day's work.
Comment linking /2019/10/20/how-i-keep-the-side-project-moving/
on “My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file”Submitted My self-study plan for electrical engineering as a story · 369 points
HN discussionThose are decent words for antiwordle (my usual starting words for that are ESSES, MAMMA, COCCO), but this game is significantly stricter than antiwordle. A decent strategy for guaranteeing that you can win is: 1. Play good Wordle moves (SOARE, RAISE, CRANE, SLANT/PRICE/DOUGH/BALMY[1], HANDY/SWIFT/GLOVE/CRUMP[2]) so that you can determine what the secret is. 2. Undo each of those so you have no restrictions about wh…
Comment linking /2022/04/22/my-lazy-wordle-strategy/
on “Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?”Submitted If AI coding is lowering your code quality, you're not managing quality right as a story · 129 points
HN discussionThanks! we've changed to that from https://i-kh.net/2020/08/26/how-signals-propagate-through-ne... .
Comment linking /2020/08/26/how-signals-propagate-through-neurons/
on “The magic of ion channels in the neurons”Submitted My lazy Wordle strategy: same words every time as a story · 101 points
HN discussionhttps://i-kh.net/2020/08/26/the-magic-of-ion-channels/
Comment linking /2020/08/26/the-magic-of-ion-channels/
on “The magic of ion channels in the neurons”Submitted The magic of ion channels in the neurons as a story · 50 points
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