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Kevlin Henney
Personal blog · kevlinhenney.medium.comprogrammingcareer
Kevlin Henney's personal blog at kevlinhenney.medium.com covers programming and career. Since 2020, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “Out of Control”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Kevlin Henney's Medium posts on programming topics, including a article on Roman numerals and one on the Sleep Sort sorting algorithm. The comments only cite the posts and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Out of Control3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-12-17
- Exceptional Naming2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-06-26
- Immutable Value2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-06
- Restrict Mutability of State2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-08
- Changing Your Priorities. The what, how, and why of prioritizing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-01
- Taking Months to Bits: A calendrical journey into low-level programming2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-26
- Need Something Sorted? Sleep on It2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-05-24
- FAQ: What's a KevlinHenney?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-19
- Think for Yourself2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-04
What Hacker News says?
Reminds me of this article on roman numerals https://kevlinhenney.medium.com/out-of-control-97ed6efa2818
Comment linking /out-of-control-97ed6efa2818
on “The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed (2019)”Submitted Need Something Sorted? Sleep on It as a story · 123 points
HN discussionI dunno if it's "cool" in the sense of something I'd want to ever use, but Sleep Sort is amusing. https://kevlinhenney.medium.com/need-something-sorted-sleep-...
Comment linking /need-something-sorted-sleep-on-it-11fdf8453914
on “What are some of the coolest algorithms you know?”Submitted Exceptional Naming as a story · 55 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Maritime Approximation as a story · 35 points
HN discussionSubmitted Agility ≠ Speed as a story · 33 points
HN discussionSubmitted Taking Months to Bits: A calendrical journey into low-level programming as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Recurse of Factorial as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Immutable Value as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Out of Control as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted FAQ: What's a KevlinHenney? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Restrict Mutability of State as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exceptional Naming as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Think for Yourself as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Immutable Value. A pattern for keeping value objects simple and free of change as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Get the Drop on Sorting as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Most Bogus Sort as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Taking Months to Bits as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Changing Your Priorities. The what, how, and why of prioritizing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted An essay on paradigms, refactoring control flow, data, code, dualism as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Out of Control as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Code Cleanliness On the origins of 'clean code' as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Think for Yourself (When Working with LLM-Generated Code) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted FAQ: What's a KevlinHenney? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Restrict Mutability of State as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting over the Waterfall as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Get the Drop on Sorting: Dropsort adventures in algorithm design as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Get the Drop on Sorting as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Changing Your Priorities: The what, how and why of prioritizing development work as a story · 1 points
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