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Steve's Real Blog is a personal blog at blog.steveasleep.com about programming and science. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Using data from the Kepler mission to scientifically imagine star systems”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-11, and you can follow it by feed.

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5mentions?
3HN people?
2019–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2019

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

Why HN links it

Linked as a follow-up to a thread on a Forth web framework. The comment points to a post about the algorithm used to work with data from the Kepler missions.

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.

all words typed by human fingers

Most-linked posts?

  1. Using data from the Kepler mission to scientifically imagine star systems
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-02-10
  2. Generating Imaginary Guitar Pedals
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-11-26

What Hacker News says?

  1. Because I'm on a Mac and wouldn't be able to test it. :-D Patches accepted here: https://github.com/irskep/keplverse I also blogged about the algorithm, if that's of interest: https://blog.steveasleep.com/using-data-from-the-kepler-miss...

    Comment linking /using-data-from-the-kepler-mission-to-scientifically-imagine-star-systems

    on “1991 – a server-side web framework written in Forth”
  2. Submitted Generating Imaginary Guitar Pedals as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Let’s generate some imaginary guitar pedals as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Using data from the Kepler mission to scientifically imagine star systems as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Using data from the Kepler mission to scientifically imagine star systems (2019) as a story · 1 points

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