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Personal blog · mihai.page · on HN as mihai_maruseacprogrammingmathai

Mihai's page is a personal blog at mihai.page about programming, math and ai. Since 2023, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Testing Graph Databases”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-31, and you can follow it by feed.

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7mentions?
7HN people?
2023–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2026

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The one comment cites the post for the reasons its author chose NixOS, namely bleeding-edge packages alongside a stable system. The linked page covers the author's choice of Linux distribution.

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.

Through a Haskell Lens

The author on HN?

mihai_maruseac · 276 karma · member since 2014

"If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn." https://mihai.page/

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Testing Graph Databases
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-02

What Hacker News says?

  1. I recommend NixOS, if you want both a bleeding edge and stable (as in, your system doesn't break) distribution. These two are the reasons this guy chose NixOS[1]: Why does NixOS work for me? I got attracted to Nix because of the possibility of being on the bleeding edge. According to repology Nix related package repositories are far up and to the right, their own cluster. In fact, only Arch is getting close by, but…

    Comment linking /nixos-and-me/

    on “Microsoft removes documentation for switching to a local account in Windows 11”
  2. Submitted Six Months at OpenAI as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. It's very close to 123456 * 8 + 6 = 987654 and the rest. I just wrote an article on that (and the fact that this submission on HN exists, I was not expecting that) https://mihai.page/ramblings-on-a-math-pattern/

    Comment linking /ramblings-on-a-math-pattern/

    on “Pi square is nearly 10”
  4. Submitted Pi square is nearly 10 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Testing 80 LLMs on spatial reasoning on grids as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Testing Graph Databases as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Testing Graph Databases as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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