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Kyle M. Douglass

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Kyle M. Douglass's personal blog at kmdouglass.github.io covers science and programming. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Out of the Tar Pit: A Summary”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
3HN people?
2020–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2022

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link Kyle M. Douglass's blog for its summary of the paper "Out of the Tar Pit", on software complexity. The one comment only links the summary alongside the original paper.

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.

Optics, programming, and computer vision.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Out of the Tar Pit: A Summary
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-09-24

What Hacker News says?

  1. Summary of that paper [0]. Referenced paper is linked. [0] http://kmdouglass.github.io/posts/summary-out-of-the-tar-pit...

    Comment linking /posts/summary-out-of-the-tar-pit/

    on “Cell Lang: Why yet another programming language?”
  2. Submitted Out of the Tar Pit: A Summary as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Out of the Tar Pit: A Summary as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Out of the Tar Pit: A Summary as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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