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Tony Zorman
Personal blog · tony-zorman.com/postsprogrammingmath
Tony Zorman's personal blog at tony-zorman.com covers programming and math. Since 2022, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “The J Incunabulum”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Linked as one of several explanations of the J Incunabulum, a very short J program, in a thread on readable code. The linked post walks through that program.
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?
- The J Incunabulum3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-01-12
- Dissertation Typesetting Considerations2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-21
- Writing a JSON Parser in BQN2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-15
What Hacker News says?
For a smaller example, try the J Incunabulum[0] various explanations are available [1][2] It's been discussed here before too. [0] https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Incunabulum [1] https://blog.wilsonb.com/posts/2025-06-06-readable-code-is-u... [2] https://tony-zorman.com/posts/j-incunabulum.html
Comment linking /posts/j-incunabulum.html
on “War on Raze”Submitted Dissertation Typesetting Considerations as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing a JSON Parser in BQN as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing a JSON Parser in BQN as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted My PhD Research Workflow–Emacs Inside as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The J Incunabulum as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dissertation Typesetting Considerations as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Potpourri of Emacs Tweaks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted But What about K? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The J Incunabulum as a story · 1 points
HN discussion