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Neil Kandalgaonkar
Personal blog · neilk.net/blog · on HN as neilkprogramming
Neil Kandalgaonkar's personal blog at neilk.net covers programming. Since 2013, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Why you should use Node.js for CPU-bound tasks”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's 2000 post on Abigail's regex that tests for prime numbers, as a fuller explanation of the trick and its 1998 origin.
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.
Neil Kandalgaonkar's personal website
Most-linked posts?
- Why you should use Node.js for CPU-bound tasks4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-04-30
- The programmers' Sefirot2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-05-01
- /blog/2000/06/01/abigails-regex-to-test-for-prime-numbers/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-09-09
What Hacker News says?
Invented in 1998 by Perl hacker Abigail: http://neilk.net/blog/2000/06/01/abigails-regex-to-test-for-... (check out Abigail's other JAPHs if you like stuff like this)
Comment linking /blog/2000/06/01/abigails-regex-to-test-for-prime-numbers/
on “Regular Expression That Checks If A Number Is Prime”Submitted HeartForth: An Emoji-Based Stack Language as a story · 53 points
HN discussionFWIW... Better explanations in http://neilk.net/blog/2000/06/01/abigails-regex-to-test-for-... Abigail's other regular expression hacks https://metacpan.org/author/ABIGAIL?sort=[[3,1] ]
Comment linking /blog/2000/06/01/abigails-regex-to-test-for-prime-numbers/
on “A regular expression to check for prime numbers (2007)”Submitted Stories as a story · 3 points
HN discussionLocation: Vancouver, Canada Remote: yes Willing to relocate: maybe - I lived for 7 years in the San Francisco Bay Area Technologies: I've done websites in every way you can imagine and at the largest scale possible, solo or part of a team. Lately I do a lot in Node.JS on the backend, and JS on the frontend. Python, Ruby, Java, etc. Am a full-stack type who can get obsessed with efficiency on the backend and prettine…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2014)”Submitted Why you should use Node.js for CPU-bound tasks as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI did my own tests with Google+. Some results: - Google+ queues images for recognition. Results improved steadily over 72 hours. - Google+ does not use OCR of text in the images. That surprised me. But perhaps it's a privacy issue. - Google+ does use information gleaned from elsewhere on the web. Words that were associated with the same images on Flickr would turn up those very pictures on Google+. - Oddly, Google+…
Comment linking /blog/2013/05/23/testing-google-photos-ai/
on “Unlabeled Object Recognition in Google+”Submitted Why you should use Node.js for CPU-bound tasks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK - Vancouver, Canada or remote. Travelling/relocating to San Francisco Bay Area or Pacific Northwest is possible. Full-stack guy, has worked at highest scale possible. Can get obsessed both with pretty frontends and server efficiency alike. Like everyone else I have a very long list of technologies I've been paid money to work with, but right now I'm working mostly in Node.JS, JS frontends, Python, and P…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2014)”Submitted Why you should use Node.js for CPU-bound tasks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK, Vancouver, Canada. Remote work a possibility. Depending on what you need, I can be that careful full-stack engineer with experience working at very large scale, or that guy who can do quick proof-of-concept hacks. I'm not a designer, but I can help you make good-looking sites as well. I'm looking for some short-term contracts at this time. I'm most interested in Node.js right now, but I can also do wor…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2013)”Submitted Why you should use Node.js for CPU-bound tasks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI wrote a blog post about the algorithm over here: http://neilk.net/blog/2013/04/16/letterpwn-a-nodejs-based-le... Maybe the concurrency techniques for a computation-heavy service in Node.JS are of more general interest, but I'm still working on a writeup for that.
Comment linking /blog/2013/04/16/letterpwn-a-nodejs-based-letterpress-solver/
on “Show HN: my side project, a Letterpress solver in Node.js”Submitted Links to essays in "Best Software Writing I" (2005) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Links to essays in “Best Software Writing I” (2005) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The programmers' Sefirot as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Programmers' Sefirot as a story · 1 points
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