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Leonid Shevtsov
Personal blog · leonid.shevtsov.me/post · on HN as lshevtsovprogrammingcareer
Leonid Shevtsov's personal blog at leonid.shevtsov.me covers programming and career. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-25, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its human-driven sort algorithm post and adaptive comparative judgment. One commenter cites it as the basis for the TV Sort game's ranking method.
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chaos lord. computer wizard. renaissance man — Leonid Shevtsov. Channel, writing, projects, interests, hobbies.
What Hacker News says?
Thank you for that! Adaptive comparative judgment gives a name to something I've always believed, but never really quite put my finger on; that comparing things one to another is more reliable than random 1-10 ratings. As for the algorithm, it's a basic Quicksort, building on the work of Leonid Shevtsov[0]. [0]: https://leonid.shevtsov.me/post/a-human-driven-sort-algorith...
Comment linking /post/a-human-driven-sort-algorithm-monkeysort/
on “Show HN: I made TV Sort, a web-based game for ranking TV show episodes”Submitted UUIDs are obsolete in the age of Docker as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Produce a per-day activity report from the log of the current git repository as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Companies that are using Clojure as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A human-driven sort algorithm (MonkeySort) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rails is still the king (2021) as a story · 1 points
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