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Preetham's Posts
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Preetham's Posts is a personal blog at preethamrn.com about programming and career. Since 2023, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Who even uses is-odd and is-even?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-02-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked posts on when to give up, a Wikipedia-based idea for exploring nearby places, and 'Markdown is holding you back', a piece on Markdown for writing. Comments cite them as related reading.
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?
- Who even uses is-odd and is-even?2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-01-17
- Piver – The reason TeX is on version 3.1415926532 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-12-29
- When should you give up on a project that doesn't work?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-02
- I Automated My Taxes Using AutoHotKey2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-08
What Hacker News says?
Is this inspired by https://www.preethamrn.com/posts/when-should-you-give-up ?
Comment linking /posts/when-should-you-give-up
on “Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia”Submitted When should you give up on a project that doesn't work? as a story · 255 points
HN discussionI am surprised TeX [1] and LaTeX (pronounced tech and lay-tech) are not mentioned in this post. When I was a physics undergrad it was required that we wrote our senior thesis in it as well as any studies we meant to publish. Interestingly, my lab worked closely with a lab from the chemistry department and apparently their standard was MS Word docs. I was given to understand that this setup was fairly universal for b…
Comment linking /posts/piver
on “Markdown is holding you back”Submitted What to do when an airline website doesn't accept your legal name as a story · 95 points
HN discussionTo give a more realistic answer to this question, when I was writing an article about npm dependencies[1], I incidentally came upon a case where the developer of node-ipc released a malicious version of the package that affected computers in Russian and Belarusian IPs specifically in response to the Ukraine war[2]. [1]: https://www.preethamrn.com/posts/who-actually-uses-is-odd [2]: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/n…
Comment linking /posts/who-actually-uses-is-odd
on “A cautionary tale about software dependencies during major geopolitical events”Submitted Where are Mr. Beast's early sponsors now? as a story · 40 points
HN discussionSubmitted My First Open Source Contribution as a story · 24 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Fast Inverse Square Root Works as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Who even uses is-odd and is-even? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Piver – The reason TeX is on version 3.141592653 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Automated My Taxes Using AutoHotKey as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automating My Taxes Using AutoHotKey as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Who actually even uses is-odd and is-even? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fear of missing out on the AI train and what I'm doing about it as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using ChatGPT to make a Pokémon theme of my favorite card game as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Piver – The reason TeX is on version 3.141592653 as a story · 1 points
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