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Irfan Ali

Personal blog · irfanali.org/blogmathprogramming

Irfan Ali's personal blog at irfanali.org covers math and programming. Since 2026, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “No Let, No Rec, No Problem: A Gentler Introduction to the Y and Z Combinators”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-13, and you can follow it by feed.

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Irfan Ali's website: expository articles on formal methods, programming language theory, and mathematics.

Most-linked posts?

  1. No Let, No Rec, No Problem: A Gentler Introduction to the Y and Z Combinators
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-06-02

What Hacker News says?

  1. _piud · 2026-09-13

    Submitted Squish, Crease, Tear: An Intuition for Open and Continuous Maps in Topology as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  2. sayyadirfanali · 2026-06-08

    Submitted Poor Man's Time Machine: Lazy Evaluation in JavaScript and Haskell as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  3. thunderbong · 2026-06-03

    Submitted No Let, No Rec, No Problem: A Gentler Introduction to the Y and Z Combinators as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  4. sayyadirfanali · 2026-06-02

    Submitted No Let, No Rec, No Problem: A Gentler Introduction to the Y and Z Combinators as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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