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Justin Abrahms
Personal blog · justin.abrah.msprogrammingsystems
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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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?
- Big-O notation explained by a self-taught programmer4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-01-17
- Wrapping my head around Steve Yegge's gastown2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-06
What Hacker News says?
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”Submitted Big-O notation explained by a self-taught programmer as a story · 169 points
HN discussionI 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”Submitted Big-O notation explained by a self-taught programmer as a story · 100 points
HN discussionwhat 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…
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on “P vs. NP and the Computational Complexity Zoo (2014) [video]”Submitted Javascript Refactoring without an IDE as a story · 18 points
HN discussionThe 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...
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on “WTF Is Big O Notation?”Submitted The State of GitHub's code review tooling as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to calculate the Big-O of something as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Big-O notation explained by a self-taught programmer as a story · 5 points
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HN discussionSubmitted Wrapping my head around Steve Yegge's gastown as a story · 2 points
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HN discussionSubmitted Big-O notation explained by a self-taught programmer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Visualize code coverage as you write your code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Pipe linter output to GitHub code reviews as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Claws don't need to be complicated as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wrapping my head around Gas Town as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ignore Django, write testable code as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Easymock for mere mortals as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Literate API testing with Dredd as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Book Review: Backbone.js Testing as a story · 1 points
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