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zephyrtronium
Personal blog · zephyrtronium.github.io/articlesprogrammingmath
zephyrtronium is a personal blog at zephyrtronium.github.io about programming and math. Since 2022, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's articles on Go random number generators and tradeoffs, on whether GitHub Copilot output carries license obligations, and on Go concurrency and io.Reader safety.
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.
I'm Branden. Software developer with a mathematics fixation. Formerly a signal analyst in the United States Air Force. I love learning and helping people learn.
What Hacker News says?
Related, this article discusses difference generators and tradeoffs for Go using them as Source: https://zephyrtronium.github.io/articles/randomness.html
Comment linking /articles/randomness.html
on “Evolving the Go Standard Library with math/rand/v2”Submitted Static Assert in Go as a story · 3 points
HN discussionCode pilot can offer code, but can the recipient use it. Some licenses are not compatible. When copilot offers code does it link to that codes license? https://zephyrtronium.github.io/articles/copilot.html
Comment linking /articles/copilot.html
on “Open source body quits GitHub, urges you to do the same”Submitted The Importance of Maybe as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere has been a lot of discussion about how the crypto doesn't work. I have some quibbles about the Go. Don't put a mutex in your io.Reader. It is assumed that, unless mentioned in the documentation, it is not safe to use anything in Go from multiple goroutines. If someone wants to make the reader synchronous for use among multiple goroutines, they can do so themselves. But it's so rare that it's unlikely anyone wo…
Comment linking /articles/rwmutex.html
on “Whisper: Wraps any Go io.ReadWriter in a secure tunnel using Ed25519/X25519”Submitted JSON Constructors as a story · 2 points
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