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Leonid Kaganov
Personal blog · lleo.me/dnevnikwritingculture
Leonid Kaganov writes Леонид Каганов, a personal blog at lleo.me about writing and culture. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link Leonid Kaganov's Russian-language diary posts as examples: a receipt-printer message experiment, election integer-spike analysis, the Huiku poetry manifest, and an ISP injection checker.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Russian writer Leonid Kaganov had this idea back in 2021, with an added twist that he also put the printer in his bathroom: https://lleo.me/dnevnik/2021/11/30
Comment linking /dnevnik/2021/11/30
on “I invited strangers to message me through a receipt printer”It's kinda sad to see our elections to be used as reference for falsification detection research... This isn't exactly new, such analysis was done as early as 2011, i.e. http://lleo.me/dnevnik/2011/12/07_gauss.html Although, they were more focused on the peculiar distribution, than on integer spikes.
Comment linking /dnevnik/2011/12/07_gauss.html
on “Integer percentages as fingerprints of electoral falsification”This reminds me how some Russian poets in the year 2000 decided that as a replacement to the elements of Haiku lost during an adaptation they need to create a new dimension to it, and so Huiku (Хуйку, from the Russian swear word хуй (dick)) was made which additionally requires first letters of every line to combine into a Russian cursing. Here is the manifest: https://lleo.me/huiku/manifest.htm It contains an exampl…
Comment linking /huiku/manifest.htm
on “Error messages in Haiku?”Obligatory Kaganov link: http://lleo.me/e/lucky_e.htm
Comment linking /e/lucky_e.htm
on “When Ramjets Ruled Science Fiction”If it's ISP injecting stuff, then there is a handy site [1] that would check for these. If you don't speak Russian, then just wait for the countdown to finish, then it would be either a green V meaning no injection, or something red and the description of the injected stuff. [1] https://lleo.me/dnevnik/2015/02/20.html
Comment linking /dnevnik/2015/02/20.html
on “Google's link tracking causing problems?”