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victorzhou.com
Personal blog · victorzhou.com/blogprogrammingdataai
victorzhou.com is a personal blog at victorzhou.com about programming, data and ai. Since 2019, 28 different Hacker News readers have linked it 114 times, most often “How to build your own .io game”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Victor Zhou's posts on building a neural network from scratch, writing and selling .io browser games, and properly sizing images in production.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Software Engineer. I blog about web development, machine learning, and more topics.
Most-linked posts?
- How to build your own .io game5 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2019-04-25
- I fell into the trap of premature optimization, the root of all evil4 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2019-08-26
- Minify Your SVGs4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-08-02
- Implementing a Neural Network from Scratch in Python3 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2019-03-04
- Why Webpack? (or, How Not to Serve JavaScript)3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-02-15
- Native image lazy loading for the web3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-08-24
- An Introduction to Recurrent Neural Networks3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-07-24
- Easy Visual Question Answering2 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-01-10
- Neural Networks from Scratch2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-07-30
- I Became a Programmer Because of Runescape2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-03-14
What Hacker News says?
shameless self plug: https://victorzhou.com has a mix of machine learning, web development, and other topics. You may have seen some posts from there on HN in the past
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?”Submitted Implementing a Neural Network from Scratch in Python as a story · 616 points
HN discussionI wonder how many people got into coding because of Runescape like the author... I have almost the same origin story [1] and I know a lot of people who also do. [1] https://victorzhou.com/blog/how-i-became-a-programmer/
Comment linking /blog/how-i-became-a-programmer/
on “How I Made $200k When I Was 16 Years Old Through Coding (2018)”Submitted Random Forests for Complete Beginners as a story · 447 points
HN discussionHey, Author here. If you're new to ML you might also like my introduction to Neural Networks: https://victorzhou.com/blog/intro-to-neural-networks/ Discussion of my neural networks post on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19320217
Comment linking /blog/intro-to-neural-networks/
on “Random Forests for Complete Beginners”Submitted An Introduction to Recurrent Neural Networks as a story · 281 points
HN discussionI do have similar articles for Neural Networks (MLP) and CNNs: --- NN: https://victorzhou.com/blog/intro-to-neural-networks/ NN HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19320217 --- CNN: https://victorzhou.com/blog/intro-to-cnns-part-1/ https://victorzhou.com/blog/intro-to-cnns-part-2/ CNN HN discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19981736 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20064900
Comment linking /blog/intro-to-cnns-part-2/
on “An Introduction to Recurrent Neural Networks”Submitted Minify Your SVGs as a story · 264 points
HN discussionHere's another Neural Network from scratch that I found useful: https://victorzhou.com/blog/intro-to-neural-networks/
Comment linking /blog/intro-to-neural-networks/
on “Build a Neural Network”Submitted Implementing a Convolutional Neural Network from Scratch in Python as a story · 238 points
HN discussionhttps://victorzhou.com for a mix of ML / web dev / other
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on “Ask HN: Favourite blogs?”Submitted Mailchimp to Sendy: Cutting Email Costs as a story · 191 points
HN discussionSide note; Disqus has a terrible reputation for selling user data. https://victorzhou.com/blog/replacing-disqus/ I tend to avoid any site that uses it.
Comment linking /blog/replacing-disqus/
on “Experts vs elites”Submitted Sendy Is Insecure: How Not to Implement ReCAPTCHA as a story · 134 points
HN discussionI've recently came across some articles by a guy that built and sold some io games. You can read some of what he wrote on his website: https://victorzhou.com/blog/creating-and-selling-io-games/
Comment linking /blog/creating-and-selling-io-games/
on “Show HN: MNML – 1v1 turn-based strategy game built with Rust and HTML5”Submitted Implementing a Convolutional Neural Network Using Only NumPy as a story · 126 points
HN discussionThe intro to the previous article explains it: https://victorzhou.com/blog/build-an-io-game-part-1/
Comment linking /blog/build-an-io-game-part-1/
on “How to Build a Multiplayer (.io) Web Game”Submitted Switching from Disqus to Commento reduced my page weight as a story · 47 points
HN discussionThe tweet basically links to the blog post https://victorzhou.com/blog/properly-size-images/ "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Comment linking /blog/properly-size-images/
on “A top 40 site in the US doesn't properly size images in production”Submitted Can You Find the Bug in This Code? as a story · 43 points
HN discussionSubmitted Neural Networks from Scratch as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted Neural Networks from Scratch as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Web Security 101: XSS Attacks as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beginner-friendly Machine Learning articles as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Introduction to Recurrent Neural Networks for Beginners as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mailchimp to Sendy: Cutting Email Costs by 100x as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Neural Networks from Scratch as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Introduction to Recurrent Neural Networks for Beginners as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Keras for Beginners: Building Your First Neural Network as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Moving from Disqus to Commento as a story · 4 points
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