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Sondra Eklund
Personal blog · sonderbooks.com/blogwritingculture
Sondra Eklund writes Sonderbooks, a personal blog at sonderbooks.com about writing and culture. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts by Sondra Eklund about a hand-made prime factorization sweater, a follow-up with a math puzzle about ages, and prime factorization T-shirts made in response to HN comments.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Sonderbooks index of book reviews by Sondra Eklund
What Hacker News says?
I think that's my bottom line reason why I didn't include it. This is all about factorization. 1 is the background color, because anything times 1 is itself. But I don't think 0 would quite fit with the pattern. What do you think of my plans for a prime factorization scarf? http://sonderbooks.com/blog/?p=10000
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on “My Prime Factorization Sweater”Submitted My Prime Factorization Sweater as a story · 222 points
HN discussionWell, it was farther off two years ago when I posted the picture. And I got my MA in 1986 on my 22nd birthday. (Later got an MLIS on another birthday.) I put a math problem in my follow-up post. You should be able to calculate my age and my son's ages from these clues: http://sonderbooks.com/blog/?p=10000
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on “My Prime Factorization Sweater”Submitted Beware: AI-produced Children's Books (2023) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIn an earlier submission[1] we saw the one-off, incredibly time-consuming sweater showing the prime factorizations[2]. In that discussion someone said: That's an excellent idea for a T-shirt.[3] The replies did point out the difference between a geeky sweater that takes time to design and make, versus a T-shirt that's simply printed, but even so, now you can get your own T-shirt with the design. The original designe…
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on “In response to HN comments: Prime Factorization T-shirts now available.”