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muratkasimov.art
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muratkasimov.art is a personal blog at muratkasimov.art about programming and philosophy. Since 2025, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Natural Transformations as a Basis of Control”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this site's Operators page to explain the author's notation for functors, applicatives and monads, which one commenter calls an 'ideographic alphabet'. The same commenter says it assumes category theory knowledge.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- /Ya/Operators2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-07
- Natural Transformations as a Basis of Control2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-05
What Hacker News says?
They were made up by the author, but actually kind of make sense It's, like, an ideographic alphabet https://muratkasimov.art/Ya/Operators explains a bit The problem is, it explains in a language for people that know category theory, rather than people that merely use functors, applicatives and monads in Haskell Indeed we could say that those programming interfaces don't need a lot of category theory to understand.…
Comment linking /Ya/Operators
on “You Don't Need Monads”Submitted You Don't Need Monads as a story · 23 points
HN discussionApparently, yes: https://muratkasimov.art/Ya/Operators
Comment linking /Ya/Operators
on “You Don't Need Monads”Submitted Я Articles as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Natural Transformations as a Basis of Control as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Natural Transformations as a Basis of Control as a story · 2 points
HN discussion