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Max Burstein

Personal blog · maxburstein.com/blog · on HN as mburstprogrammingweb

Max Burstein's personal blog at maxburstein.com covers programming and web. Since 2012, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “Rendering 12,000 Image Albums at Imgur”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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29mentions?
6HN people?
2012–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 16 in 2013

The author on HN?

mburst · 844 karma · member since 2011

I'm a staff software engineer @cruise. Formerly staff engineer @imgur. Checkout my blog at https://www.maxburstein.com/ or challenge yourself to some logic and programming puzzles over at https://www.problemotd.com/. If you're in to Dota download my app at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teamtol.livedota. You can reach me via e-mail at my HN user name @maxburstein.com We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible. -Vince Lombardi

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Rendering 12,000 Image Albums at Imgur
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-09-14
  2. Speeding Up Your Python Code
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-03-17

What Hacker News says?

  1. A few years ago I had the desire to have a version controlled CV. This is what I came up with after spending a few hours learning about LaTeX https://github.com/mburst/resume I put out a tutorial about how to make you're own if anyone is curious http://www.maxburstein.com/blog/creating-resume-using-latex/ I still use it to this day

    Comment linking /blog/creating-resume-using-latex/

    on “Limecv – A LaTeX CV Document Class”
  2. Submitted Python Shortcuts for the Python Beginner as a story · 187 points

    HN discussion
  3. I had about 180 according to Google Analytics for http://maxburstein.com/blog/python-shortcuts-for-the-python-... It was at the top of Hacker News and /r/programming for a little bit. It stayed pretty constant at that level for about half the day. My first post to get over 120 users at a time was http://maxburstein.com/blog/creating-resume-using-latex/ It was at the top of /r/programming with over 1000 points so it…

    Comment linking /blog/creating-resume-using-latex/

    on “Ask HN: What is the most amount of people you have had on your site at one time?”
  4. Submitted Introduction to Graph Theory: Finding The Shortest Path (Part 2) as a story · 77 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Bit Level Manipulation as a story · 31 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Speeding Up Your Python Code as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Speeding Up Your Python Code as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Rendering 12,000 Image Albums at Imgur as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Introduction To Unit Testing In Python and Ruby as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Achieving Your Goals as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Introduction to Graph Theory: Finding The Shortest Path as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Django Settings File Tricks as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Creating a Simple Bloom Filter as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Simple way to push to multiple git repos as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Programmatically Identifying Political Media as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Rendering 12,000 Image Albums at Imgur as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted My Experience Making My First Android App as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted From 0 To 500 Users In 7 Days as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Creating Your Resume Using LaTeX as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Rendering 12,000 Image Albums at Imgur – Max Burstein's Blog as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Rendering 12,000 Image Albums at Imgur as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Fighting Comment Spam as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Speeding Up Your Python Code as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Build Your Own RSS Feed Reader as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Create Your Own jQuery Autocomplete Function as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted How to Create a Realtime Django App Using Node.js and Socket.IO as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Easy way to create your own threaded commenting system with Django as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Serve your Django static files for free with Heroku as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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