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Karthik Karanth

Personal blog · karthikkaranth.me/blog · on HN as kkaranthprogramming

Karthik Karanth's personal blog at karthikkaranth.me covers programming. Since 2018, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Generating random points inside a sphere”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-18, and you can follow it by feed.

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14mentions?
5HN people?
2018–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2021

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The linked posts cover generating random points inside a sphere and evenly distributing points on a sphere. One commenter points to the random-points post as a related article; no comment judges the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

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The author on HN?

kkaranth · 346 karma · member since 2018

https://karthikkaranth.me

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Generating random points inside a sphere
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-08-04

What Hacker News says?

  1. Location: Salt Lake City, US Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes, US Technologies: C++, Python, Keras, Rust(neophyte), Graphics(Opengl/Webgl), Linux, Git, Unity, Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Django, Flask Resume: https://karthikkaranth.me/share/resume.pdf Email: karanth.karthik@gmail.com Website: https://karthikkaranth.me =========== Looking for opportunities in scientific computing, geometry processing, graphic…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2021)”
  2. Submitted Generating random points inside a sphere as a story · 252 points

    HN discussion
  3. Location: Salt Lake City, US Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes, US Technologies: C++, Python, Keras, Rust(neophyte), Graphics(Opengl/Webgl), Linux, Git, Unity, Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Django, Flask Resume: https://karthikkaranth.me/share/resume.pdf Email: karanth.karthik@gmail.com Website: https://karthikkaranth.me =========== Looking for opportunities in scientific computing, geometry processing, graphic…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2021)”
  4. Submitted Bead Sort as a story · 99 points

    HN discussion
  5. Location: Salt Lake City, US Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes, US Technologies: C++, Python, Keras, Rust(neophyte), Graphics(Opengl/Webgl), Linux, Git, Unity, Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Django, Flask Resume: https://karthikkaranth.me/share/resume.pdf Email: karanth.karthik@gmail.com Website: https://karthikkaranth.me =========== Looking for opportunities in scientific computing, geometric processing, graphi…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2021)”
  6. Submitted Calling C Code from Go as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. A somewhat related article recently on the HN front page - "Generating random points inside a sphere": https://karthikkaranth.me/blog/generating-random-points-in-a... ; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17688599

    Comment linking /blog/generating-random-points-in-a-sphere/

    on “Evenly distributing points on a sphere”
  8. Submitted Performance benchmarking: beware frequency scaling as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Functions implementing interfaces in go (2018) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Starting with order: an approach to generative art as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Implementing Seam Carving with Python as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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