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Niklas Oberhuber

Personal blog · obrhubr.orgprogrammingsciencemath

Niklas Oberhuber's personal blog at obrhubr.org covers programming, science and math. Since 2024, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Dithering in Colour”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-22, and you can follow it by feed.

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17mentions?
6HN people?
2024–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 9 in 2025

Hey, I'm Niklas! I like to write about anything that crosses my mind, most of which is related to computers.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Dithering in Colour
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-09
  2. Can a Computer Program Be a Cruciverbalist?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-27
  3. Phucking with Phishers
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-19
  4. Weather Model based on ADS-B
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-29
  5. Deriving the Kelly Criterion to Maximise Profits
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-12

What Hacker News says?

  1. surprisetalk · 2025-07-30

    Submitted Weather Model based on ADS-B as a story · 261 points

    HN discussion
  2. surprisetalk · 2025-03-09

    Submitted Dithering in Colour as a story · 168 points

    HN discussion
  3. xlinux · 2024-11-19

    Submitted How to Build a Chess Engine and Fail as a story · 134 points

    HN discussion
  4. surprisetalk · 2025-05-31

    Submitted Estimating Logarithms as a story · 103 points

    HN discussion
  5. obrhubr · 2024-07-04

    Submitted Reverse Engineering the Verification QR Code on My Diploma as a story · 77 points

    HN discussion
  6. obrhubr · 2024-10-12

    Submitted Deriving the Kelly Criterion to Maximise Profits as a story · 50 points

    HN discussion
  7. Bogdanp · 2025-07-29

    Submitted Weather Model based on ADS-B as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  8. surprisetalk · 2024-10-17

    Submitted Can a Computer Program Be a Cruciverbalist? as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  9. surprisetalk · 2024-11-13

    Submitted Voter Fraud in My Online Poll for the School Canteen as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  10. surprisetalk · 2024-10-19

    Submitted Phucking with Phishers as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  11. todsacerdoti · 2025-03-09

    Submitted Dithering in Colour as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. frizlab · 2025-02-08

    Submitted Phucking with Phishers as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. surprisetalk · 2024-10-16

    Submitted Deriving the Kelly Criterion to Maximise Profits as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. surprisetalk · 2025-07-26

    Submitted A Practical (and Incomplete) History of Language Models as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. surprisetalk · 2025-06-11

    Submitted How to be Right without being Sure as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. surprisetalk · 2025-02-14

    Submitted How FM Radio Works as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. todsacerdoti · 2024-08-27

    Submitted Can a Computer Program Be a Cruciverbalist? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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