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John Biesnecker

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John Biesnecker's personal blog at biesnecker.com covers programming and math. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-22, and you can follow it by feed.

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2011–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 15 in 2014

Personal site of John Biesnecker — writing about technology, language, and travel.

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  1. Submitted Understanding XOR: it's just a diff as a story · 6 points

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  2. Submitted Why Mathalicious is wrong about Khan Academy and engineering education as a story · 6 points

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  3. Submitted Building a card game with React.js as a story · 4 points

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  4. Submitted Why I'm betting on JavaScript as a story · 3 points

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  5. Submitted Visualizing a scikit-learn decision tree as a story · 2 points

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  6. Submitted 3 ridiculous JavaScript n00b gotchas as a story · 2 points

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  7. Submitted The joys of having a Forever Project as a story · 2 points

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  8. Submitted Projects fail slowly, and then all at once as a story · 2 points

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  9. Submitted Calculating the square root of a number with Heron's method as a story · 2 points

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  10. Submitted Simulating a full adder in code as a story · 2 points

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  11. Submitted Six simple steps to reading more as a story · 2 points

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  12. Submitted Stop overthinking things and build something as a story · 2 points

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  13. Submitted Diving into tries as a story · 1 points

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  14. Submitted Understanding reservoir sampling as a story · 1 points

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  15. Submitted Show HN: Hachiko: an asyncio wrapper for Watchdog as a story · 1 points

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  16. Submitted Simple, lightweight asyncio-based actors for Python 3.4 as a story · 1 points

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  17. Submitted The one where my company failed as a story · 1 points

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  18. Submitted Drawing dynamic SVGs with React.js as a story · 1 points

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  19. Submitted Predicting the winner of an MLB game from historical data as a story · 1 points

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  20. Submitted Building a reading time widget with React and jQuery as a story · 1 points

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  21. Submitted Integrating React.js into Jekyll as a story · 1 points

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  22. Submitted Show HN: MLB team colors in hexadecimal as a story · 1 points

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  23. Submitted Boolean logic for programmers as a story · 1 points

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  24. Submitted The worries of parenting with technology as a story · 1 points

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  25. Submitted Solving Pell's equations with the Chakravala method and Clojure as a story · 1 points

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  26. Submitted On the importance of knowing the standard library as a story · 1 points

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  27. Submitted Too complicated for mobile is just too complicated as a story · 1 points

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