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mammoth
Personal blog · ammoth.us/blogprogramminggames
mammoth is a personal blog at ammoth.us about programming and games. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “A winning solution for SimCity”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked posts are about Magnasanti, described as the largest and most terrible city in SimCity. The one comment discusses the article's translation history and attribution, not the quality of the writing.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- A winning solution for SimCity2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-10-11
What Hacker News says?
It's odd because the original version was written in English. Then somebody (Alconost) translated to Russian, without giving credit to the original source, but putting in a bunch of advertisements for their own site, then somebody poorly translated it back to English. How many people in the world speak Russian is irrelevant and has nothing to do with the fact that it's odd that whoever translated it to Russian didn'…
Comment linking /blog/2010/10/magnasanti/
on “Magnasanti – The largest and most terrible city of SimCity”Submitted A winning solution for SimCity as a story · 63 points
HN discussionSubmitted An atlas of the infrastructure behind the iphone as a story · 8 points
HN discussion