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Robin Deits

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Robin Deits writes Playing with Legos, a personal blog at blog.robindeits.com about programming and science. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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4HN people?
2013–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked in a thread on holography for a follow-up post on scratch holograms, including one that renders opaque surfaces. The comment only links to the post and does not judge its writing.

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.

What Hacker News says?

  1. One guy even managed to render opaque surfaces: http://blog.robindeits.com/2012/02/20/more-scratch-holograms...

    Comment linking /2012/02/20/more-scratch-holograms/

    on “Holography without Lasers: Hand Drawn Holograms (1995)”
  2. Submitted A Cryptic Crossword Clue Solver (in Python) as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Building a microscope from old camera lenses as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Chromesthesia (MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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