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Stephen Gruppetta writes Notes from the Near Future, a personal blog at thepythoncodingstack.com about programming and writing. Since 2024, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 47 times, most often “`Bytes`: The Lesser-Known Python Built-In Sequence”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.

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47mentions?
4HN people?
2024–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 23 in 2024

The Permanently Curious Stack • Read about my exploration and experimentation as we learn to collaborate with AI agents to do, well, everything. Also, Python and Rust here….

Most-linked posts?

  1. `Bytes`: The Lesser-Known Python Built-In Sequence
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-06
  2. What Can a Coffee Machine Teach You About Python's Functions?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-30

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted A simplified Python simulation of diffusion as a story · 124 points

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  2. Submitted Demystifying decorators: They don't need to be cryptic as a story · 54 points

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  3. Submitted `Bytes`: The Lesser-Known Python Built-In Sequence as a story · 27 points

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  4. Submitted Are Python Dictionaries Ordered Data Structures? as a story · 18 points

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  5. Submitted `Bytes`: The Lesser-Known Python Built-In Sequence and Understanding UTF-8 as a story · 9 points

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  6. Submitted What's in a List–Yes, but What's *Really* in a Python List as a story · 4 points

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  7. Submitted What Can a Coffee Machine Teach You About Python's Functions? as a story · 4 points

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  8. Submitted Creating a Singleton Class in Python and Why You (Probably) Don't Need It as a story · 3 points

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  9. Submitted Do You Know How `or` and `and` Work in Python? as a story · 3 points

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  10. Submitted I Want My Own Fancy F-String Format Specifiers Sure You Can as a story · 3 points

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  11. Submitted Goat or Car? Solving the Monty Hall Problem with Python and NumPy as a story · 3 points

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  12. Submitted Is There Any Doctor Here? We're All Doctors as a story · 3 points

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  13. Submitted When You No Longer Need That Object • Dealing with Garbage in Python as a story · 2 points

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  14. Submitted When You No Longer Need That Object • Dealing with Garbage in Python as a story · 2 points

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  15. Submitted Do You Know How `or` and `and` Work in Python? as a story · 2 points

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  16. Submitted Disassembling Python Code Using the `Dis` Module as a story · 2 points

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  17. Submitted Unzipping in Python - the difference Between Zipping and Unzipping Your Jacket? as a story · 2 points

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  18. Submitted A Story About Parameters and Arguments in Python Functions as a story · 2 points

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  19. Submitted The Code That Almost Led to Disaster • a Starbase Story as a story · 2 points

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  20. Submitted And Now for Something New as a story · 2 points

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  21. Submitted What happens when you first create an instance of a class? as a story · 2 points

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  22. Submitted What's The Difference Between NumPy's `arange()` and `linspace()` as a story · 2 points

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  23. Submitted The Trees in the Woods (Data Structures in the Real World #1) as a story · 2 points

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  24. Submitted Different Take on NumPy Broadcasting–Strange Practices at the Broadcaster's Inn as a story · 2 points

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  25. Submitted Who does the work, the model or the software? as a story · 1 points

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  26. Submitted Anatomy of an Agent – By Stephen Gruppetta as a story · 1 points

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  27. Submitted My Life • the Autobiography of a Python Object as a story · 1 points

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  28. Submitted My Life • the Autobiography of a Python Object as a story · 1 points

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  29. Submitted And Now You Know Your ABC – By Stephen Gruppetta as a story · 1 points

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  30. Submitted The Networking Event (#4 in The itertools Series) as a story · 1 points

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