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Justin Abrahms

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Justin Abrahms's personal blog at justin.abrah.ms covers programming and systems. Since 2013, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Big-O notation explained by a self-taught programmer”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-26, and you can follow it by feed.

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23mentions?
13HN people?
2013–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link Justin Abrahms' posts on scripts he uses regularly and on Big O notation, a write-up that introduces the topic for programmers.

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.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Big-O notation explained by a self-taught programmer
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-01-17
  2. Wrapping my head around Steve Yegge's gastown
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-06

What Hacker News says?

  1. Think this is the source https://justin.abrah.ms/bash/forgotten_friend_3.html

    Comment linking /bash/forgotten_friend_3.html

    on “Scripts I wrote that I use all the time”
  2. Submitted Big-O notation explained by a self-taught programmer as a story · 169 points

    HN discussion
  3. I did writing to a similar effect yesterday. https://justin.abrah.ms/2022-01-27-my-thoughts-on-crypto.htm... tl;dr - I would really love to like the crypto stuff that's being worked on, I just can't get on board with the big problems I'm seeing.

    Comment linking /2022-01-27-my-thoughts-on-crypto.html

    on “Tell HN: We have a responsibility to speak out against blockchain technologies”
  4. Submitted Big-O notation explained by a self-taught programmer as a story · 100 points

    HN discussion
  5. what we are concerned with here are two things, that becomes easier to explain as three things: * the problem's class * the algorithm.. or proof * the size of the input * the problem's class: each problem has a corresponding class(i) determined by a universal set of rules based on current solving algorithms and how they react to different input in a beautiful and approachable paper by richard karp titled: reducibili…

    Comment linking /computer-science/big-o-notation-explained.html

    on “P vs. NP and the Computational Complexity Zoo (2014) [video]”
  6. Submitted Javascript Refactoring without an IDE as a story · 18 points

    HN discussion
  7. User23 · 2019-03-26Recommends
    The formal definition is a fairly gentle introduction to logical math. Here is a decent enough write-up: https://justin.abrah.ms/computer-science/understanding-big-o...

    Comment linking /computer-science/understanding-big-o-formal-definition.html

    on “WTF Is Big O Notation?”
  8. Submitted The State of GitHub's code review tooling as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted How to calculate the Big-O of something as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Big-O notation explained by a self-taught programmer as a story · 5 points

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  11. Submitted Selenium's Page Object Pattern: The Key to Maintainable Tests as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Converting from MySQL to Postgres as a story · 3 points

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  13. Submitted Wrapping my head around Steve Yegge's gastown as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Vim and Python: Making yourself at home as a story · 2 points

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  15. Submitted Big-O notation explained by a self-taught programmer as a story · 2 points

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  16. Submitted Visualize code coverage as you write your code as a story · 2 points

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  17. Submitted Show HN: Pipe linter output to GitHub code reviews as a story · 2 points

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  18. Submitted Claws don't need to be complicated as a story · 1 points

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  19. Submitted Wrapping my head around Gas Town as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Ignore Django, write testable code as a story · 1 points

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  21. Submitted Easymock for mere mortals as a story · 1 points

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  22. Submitted Literate API testing with Dredd as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Book Review: Backbone.js Testing as a story · 1 points

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