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Lee Jacobson

Personal blog · theprojectspot.com · on HN as leejw00t354programmingai

Lee Jacobson writes The Project Spot, a personal blog at theprojectspot.com about programming and ai. Since 2011, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 30 times, most often “An introduction to genetic algorithms”. It has a working feed you can follow.

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10HN people?
2011–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 12 in 2012

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

Why HN links it

The only comment does not discuss this blog's writing. It is an Ask HN reply about porting a 1991 Unix ant farm program from C to React, and it links to a different site.

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?

leejw00t354 · 809 karma · member since 2011

I make websites: http://www.theprojectspot.com http://www.twitter.com/leejacobson_

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

Most-linked posts?

  1. An introduction to genetic algorithms
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-02-13
  2. Understanding Node.js callbacks for beginners
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-03-06
  3. Node.js for beginners - Hello world and a bit of fun
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-02-02
  4. How to solve the traveling salesman problem with a genetic algorithm
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-08-21
  5. Introduction to the simulated annealing optimization algorithm
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-04-12

What Hacker News says?

  1. I'm having a lot of fun making a virtual ant farm as a side project. https://meomix.github.io/antfarm/ I found some code written in 1991 for Unix (in C) and decided I would port it to React and get it running on the web. I have to implement persistence and iron out a few bugs, but it's at least functional at this point. I wrote the original coder and let them know I'm rewriting their code 30 years later. They're sto…

    Comment linking /tutorial-post/ant-colony-optimization-for-hackers/10

    on “Ask HN: What is something exciting you're working on?”
  2. Submitted Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks – Part 1 as a story · 168 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted An introduction to genetic algorithms as a story · 68 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Ant colony optimization for hackers – with JavaScript example as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Node.js for beginners - Hello world and a bit of fun as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Solving the traveling salesman problem on GoogleMaps with a GA and JavaScript as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Solving the Traveling Salesman Problem Using Google Maps and Genetic Algorithms as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Consciousness, coming to a machine near you. as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Node.js for beginners - Hello world and more as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Optimising the Hacker News community as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks - Part 1 as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Introduction to the simulated annealing optimization algorithm as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Understanding Node.js callbacks for beginners as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted I'm a web designer as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks – Part 1 (2013) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted How to solve the traveling salesman problem with a genetic algorithm as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted The day we fought back with a list of names as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Introduction to Node.js callbacks as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted An introduction to Node.js as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Creating a Genetic Algorithm for Beginners as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Is the UK becoming a bad place for Internet startups? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Why Windows 8 tablets will be big as a story · 2 points

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  23. Submitted UI is your book's cover as a story · 2 points

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  24. Submitted Implementing the simulated annealing algorithm as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Node.js for beginners - Callbacks as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted Creating a genetic algorithm for beginners as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Applying a genetic algorithm to the travelling salesman problem as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Maximising Happiness as a story · 1 points

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  29. Submitted Become a pirate, save the world, kind of as a story · 1 points

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  30. Submitted Thank you Steve Jobs as a story · 1 points

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