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Shadab Ahmed
Personal blog · shadabahmed.com · on HN as shadykillerprogramminghardwaresystems
Shadab Ahmed's personal blog at shadabahmed.com covers programming, hardware and systems. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Range Count Tree - A simple BST for range counts”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked once in a comment on a thread about a hacker mailing a smartphone to record a video of the process. The comment is rambling and does not discuss the writing itself; the linked posts seem to concern DIY telemetry.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Range Count Tree - A simple BST for range counts2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-03-09
- Infinite Bang Bang2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-08-16
What Hacker News says?
We need more cracked screen smartphone apps at Google play and itunes. This cool postal logger generalizes to recycled smartphone hackaday DIY probes recording their adventure and uplink data of anything desired, intrepidly set adrift in the wild: Telemetry ...is the highly automated communications process by which measurements are made and other data collected at remote or inaccessible points and transmitted to rec…
Comment linking /blog/2013/08/16/bang-bang
on “Hacker sends this through the mail to record a video of the process”Submitted Infinite Bang Bang as a story · 75 points
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HN discussionSubmitted Parenthesis Permutation - A non recursive solution as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Smarter TV Mount with Arduino as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Single Value Tree as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Integrating Slack with GitHub Enterprise as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ditch jsFiddle - Codepen is awesome as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Inside Git Guts with Ruby as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Skyline Tree - A BST for skyline algorithm as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Martin Rem's Puzzle - A surpassing problem as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Range Count Tree - A simple BST for range counts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: MultiConfig Gem for ActiveRecord as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fan Mod for Meanwell Power Supply as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted BST Inorder Sucessor as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mysterious Killer of my Processes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Puzzle - Transform One String to Another as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted RangeCountTree - A Binary Search Tree for range intersections in Ruby as a story · 1 points
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