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Patterns, Code & Curiosity
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Patterns, Code & Curiosity is a personal blog at earth.hoyd.net about programming and math. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Is the error code 404 Not Found based on a room at CERN or not?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
The comments only fix the submitted URL for a post asking whether the 404 Not Found status code is based on a room at CERN. They say nothing about the writing.
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Writing about command line things, programming, photography, recreational math, art, curiosities and theology - in both norwegian and english.
Most-linked posts?
- Is the error code 404 Not Found based on a room at CERN or not?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-19
What Hacker News says?
This was right up my alley, and inspired by this post, I had to check against the norwegian scrabble dictionary: https://earth.hoyd.net/posts/ord-du-kan-stave-med-en-kalkula...
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on “Three hundred words you can spell on a calculator [pdf]”Submitted Ask HN: Unusual distribution of steps needed to reach Kaprekar's constant (6174) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI once blogged about the lack of word for this smell[0], and came across someone else that has asked this[1] too. Just like 'petrichor' for the smell of fresh earth following rain. I made up my own word for this, in Norwegian: 'Gammelbokduft'. [0] https://earth.hoyd.net/lukten-av-gamle-boker-118/ [1] http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/57416/word-for-th...
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on “Why old books smell so good”Submitted Is the error code 404 Not Found based on a room at CERN or not? (2017) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSure, here is a translated post: Title: Distribution of the Number of Steps to Kaprekar's Constant We are trying Kaprekar's routine. I choose a four-digit number with at least two different digits: 2345. We find the largest possible variant 5432 and the smallest possible variant 2345 from the digits and begin the routine... 5432 - 2345 = 3087 8730 - 0378 = 8352 8532 - 2358 = 6174 We have arrived at Kaprekar's consta…
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on “Ask HN: Unusual distribution of steps needed to reach Kaprekar's constant (6174)”Submitted Is the error code 404 Not Found based on a room at CERN or not? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://earth.hoyd.net Blogs about simple curiosities regarding text, math and coding. Also some additional posts about christianity, space and command line too.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Space game sparked the creation of Unix (2017) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFunny, I did a similar exercise in 2019, https://earth.hoyd.net/visualizing-100k-decimals-of-pi-and-t... loved how it turned out. Even planned to make it into an art piece on the wall.
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on “Footsteps of pi”Fixed now. Submitted URL was https://earth.hoyd.net/was-the-404-not-found-based-on-a-room... . Thanks!
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on “Is the error code 404 Not Found based on a room at CERN or not?”Ironically corrected URL: https://earth.hoyd.net/was-the-404-not-found-based-on-a-room...
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on “Is the error code 404 Not Found based on a room at CERN or not?”
