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Kara van Kessel

Personal blog · vankessel.io · on HN as vankesselphilosophymathprogramming

Kara van Kessel's personal blog at vankessel.io covers philosophy, math and programming. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Visualizing Complex Functions”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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7mentions?
3HN people?
2019–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2019

A blog for my thoughts. Mostly philosophy, math, and programming.

The author on HN?

vankessel · 100 karma · member since 2018

https://vankessel.io/ https://github.com/vankessel

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Visualizing Complex Functions
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-09-21

What Hacker News says?

  1. Shameless self promotion https://vankessel.io Still have work to do on it, but I would love to hear feedback.

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: What are some great personal blogs/portfolios?”
  2. Submitted Visualizing Complex Functions as a story · 87 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Visualizing Complex Functions as a story · 77 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Disprove quantum immortality without risking your life (2019) as a story · 53 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Visualizing Complex Functions as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted How to Disprove Quantum Immortality (Without Risking Your Life) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted How to Disprove Quantum Immortality (Without Risking Your Life) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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