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Personal blog · mathspp.com/blogprogrammingmath
mathspp.com is a personal blog at mathspp.com about programming and math. Since 2021, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 49 times, most often “Let's build a simple interpreter for APL – part 1”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link mathspp.com for its APL-in-Python interpreter series and a socket programming guide. One comment calls the sockets post a possible help to readers, and another cites the APL series as the closest existing example.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Let's build a simple interpreter for APL – part 13 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-04-24
- Regex Crossword2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-27
- The ins and outs of chaining comparison operators in Python2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-03
- Does Elegance Matter?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-07
- Counting Mosaics with APL2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-16
What Hacker News says?
Not that I have found, closest is an incomplete one done in python. https://mathspp.com/blog/tag:lsbasi-apl#body-wrapper
Comment linking /blog/tag:lsbasi-apl
on “APL Interpreter – An implementation of APL, written in Haskell (2024)”Submitted How to create a Python package in 2022 as a story · 424 points
HN discussionFor your convenience, part 1: https://mathspp.com/blog/lsbasi-apl-part1 I don't know if your wording is too amateurish because you are using lingo outside of my knowledge. Does "make use of the speed of array-based language, but save computation time by compiling" refer to using an array language that is compiled? [Co-dfns]( https://github.com/co-dfns/co-dfns ) compiles a dialect of APL, so that might be interesting…
Comment linking /blog/lsbasi-apl-part1
on “Let's build a simple interpreter for APL, part 2 (2020)”Submitted Lessons I learned from working full-time on a FOSS project for 503 days as a story · 140 points
HN discussionhttps://mathspp.com/blog/sockets-for-dummies might help
Comment linking /blog/sockets-for-dummies
on “About A comprehensive guide for Linux Network (Socket) programming”Submitted Why APL is worth knowing as a story · 121 points
HN discussionI'm an independent creator working mostly with Python, and I have 40% OFF of the Python Problem-Solving Bootcamp ( https://mathspp.com/pythonbootcamp ) through Black Friday. Everything else I have is just free, like my Pydon'ts book ( https://pydonts.com ).
Comment linking /pythonbootcamp
on “Ask HN: Black Friday/Cybermonday deals for hackers?”Submitted Let's build a simple interpreter for APL, part 2 (2020) as a story · 115 points
HN discussionI have been using snappify.com for over a year now and I absolutely love it. I've used snappify to create code snippets to share on social media[1], I've used it to create YouTube video thumbnails, and I've used it to create slides for talks that I've given at big international conferences[2]. I have no affiliation with snappify whatsoever, and I'd love to see your comments on this tool. What things look good/promis…
Comment linking /talks
on “Snappify: Create beautiful code snippets with ease”Submitted Regex Crossword as a story · 107 points
HN discussionOriginal author here, I'll be interested in feedback about the post and use cases you have for property-based testing. FYI my personal blog lives at https://mathspp.com/blog .
Comment linking /blog
on “Getting Started with Property-Based Testing in Python with Hypothesis and Pytest”Submitted Teaching the Largest Programming Lesson as a story · 51 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sockets for Dummies as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why OOP Exists as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let's build a simple interpreter for APL – part 1 as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Imperfect Compression as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using automatons to count 698,438,863,898,480,640 valid passwords in a few ms as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Recursive structural pattern matching – mathspp as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Python's Module Enum Overview as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I Prepare a Technical Talk as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Regex Crossword as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Finding near-duplicate photos with basic maths as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Solving Wordle with APL as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Minimax algorithm and alpha-beta pruning – Mathspp as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Counting Mosaics with APL as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Does Elegance Matter? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tachyon: Sampling Profiling in Python as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let's build a simple interpreter for APL – part 1 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let's build a simple interpreter for APL – part 1 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generalising Itertools.pairwise – Mathspp as a story · 1 points
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