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Vishnu Menon

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Vishnu Menon's personal blog at vishnumenon.com covers programming and ai. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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2012–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this post in threads about young developers announcing their age on HN. One commenter calls it the most common-sense post they have read on the issue.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. /2013/01/21/im-35-months-old-and-i-made-this-cool-app/
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-01-21

What Hacker News says?

  1. It's http://vishnumenon.com/2013/01/21/im-35-months-old-and-i-mad...

    Comment linking /2013/01/21/im-35-months-old-and-i-made-this-cool-app/

    on “Implore HN: Celebrate and encourage young developers who post here”
  2. Submitted Show HN: The Trouble with Starting Web Development / My Solution as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. qzxt · 2013-01-21Recommends
    If this is in relation to http://vishnumenon.com/2013/01/21/im-35-months-old-and-i-mad... then I think you miss the point. I agree with the author of that and it is the most common sense post I've read, so far, regarding this issue. The reality is people posting their age doesn't simply mean "I am new at this. I know you guys aren't. I want you to check it out and give me encouragement and guidance." Simultaneously…

    Comment linking /2013/01/21/im-35-months-old-and-i-made-this-cool-app/

    on “Implore HN: Celebrate and encourage young developers who post here”
  4. Submitted Mandelbrot/Julia Fractal Visualizations with WebWorkers as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. I tend to automatically flag posts with a title like this one, usually devoid of any content worth reading. See this recently killed post: http://vishnumenon.com/2013/01/21/im-35-months-old-and-i-mad... HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5093365

    Comment linking /2013/01/21/im-35-months-old-and-i-made-this-cool-app/

    on “Developer Auction Hires 19 Year Old Thiel Fellow As COO”
  6. Submitted Monte Carlo Pi & Processing.js as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Learn Linear Regression Through Least Squares (My own blog) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted A New HN-Based Home Page as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Language Model UXes in 2027 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Musical Chains: Music Generation with Clojure as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Naive Bayes Classifier in Haskell as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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