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Nicholas Pilkington
Personal blog · nickp.svbtle.comprogrammingmath
Nicholas Pilkington's personal blog at nickp.svbtle.com covers programming and math. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Time of maximum intersection of two moving polygons”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment is a console snippet for copying links from the 'Great Blogs by Programmers' thread, with a truncated compiled list. It does not say anything about the writing or its subjects.
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.
Nicholas Pilkington | Computers. @DroneDeploy. Fun
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-07-06
- Time of maximum intersection of two moving polygons2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-06-29
What Hacker News says?
Maybe you'll like these: https://nickp.svbtle.com/ (shameless plug)
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on “Poisson's Equation”Submitted Time of maximum intersection of two moving polygons as a story · 35 points
HN discussionI did a blog post of something related with Minkowski geometry: https://nickp.svbtle.com/asteroid-intersections
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on “The GJK Algorithm: A weird and beautiful way to do a simple thing”Submitted A Challenging Combinatorics Problem as a story · 3 points
HN discussionEDIT: Paste this hacky snippet into your browser's console to save all of the links into your clipboard: (() => { let result = [...document.querySelectorAll('td a')] .map((link) => link && !link.href.includes('ycombinator') && !link.href.includes('javascript:void') ? link.href : '' ) .filter(Boolean); result = [...new Set(result)]; result.sort(); copy(result.join('\n\n')); })(); Just to help, here's a compiled-list…
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on “Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers”Submitted Minkowski Asteroids as a story · 3 points
HN discussionShameless plug on my blog on solving and visualizing problems: https://nickp.svbtle.com/
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on “Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers”Submitted Computing furthest point from vertex in a polygon as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI did a toy implementation of a star camera: https://nickp.svbtle.com/star-cameras
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on “SR-71 Blackbird Astro-Nav System (a.k.a. R2-D2) worked by tracking the stars”Submitted Show HN: Estimating your location from audio recording as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://nickp.svbtle.com/ I try to deconstruct and solve interesting coding problems usually from programming competitions.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Location Estimation in Python as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI wrote a blog about the general case https://nickp.svbtle.com/general-collectors-problem
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on “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Conditional Probabilities”Submitted Solving Sudokus in Python Using a SAT-Solver as a story · 2 points
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