Hackernews posts about John Carlos Baez

  1. Insanely Long Proofs (2012) (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
    3 points by nill0 16 days ago | discuss
  2. The number pi has an evil twin (mathstodon.xyz)
    579 points by pkaeding 4 months ago | 207 comments
  3. What Is Entropy? (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
    345 points by ainoobler 9 months ago | 200 comments
  4. Why does current flow the opposite way from the electrons? (mathstodon.xyz)
    245 points by johncarlosbaez 10 months ago | 242 comments
  5. Tritone Substitutions (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
    220 points by chmaynard 9 months ago | 134 comments
  6. The seventh most popular easily understood unsolved problem on MathOverflow (mathstodon.xyz)
    187 points by ColinWright about 1 year ago | 104 comments
  7. Quark Stars (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
    135 points by chmaynard 9 months ago | 56 comments
  8. "Homotopical macrocosms for higher category theory" identified as woke DEI grant (mathstodon.xyz)
    108 points by nabla9 2 months ago | 146 comments
  9. The Gravo-Thermal Catastrophe (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
    105 points by terryf 7 months ago | 35 comments
  10. Derivatives don't always act like fractions (2021) (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
    98 points by c1ccccc1 4 months ago | 49 comments
  11. Water (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
    84 points by MaysonL 11 months ago | 8 comments
  12. What are Majorana zero modes? (mathstodon.xyz)
    79 points by ColinWright 2 months ago | 10 comments
  13. The Physics of Butterfly Wings (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
    71 points by boringg 5 months ago | 14 comments
  14. Black Hole Puzzle (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
    67 points by besmirch 5 months ago | 55 comments
  15. John Baez' Applied Category Theory Lectures (mathstodon.xyz)
    65 points by perihelions over 1 year ago | 3 comments
  16. Hexagonal Tiling Honeycomb (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
    56 points by chmaynard 12 months ago | 4 comments
  17. Precursors of Copernicus' heliocentric theory (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
    54 points by chmaynard 5 months ago | 21 comments
  18. The Triassic-Jurassic Extinction (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
    51 points by chmaynard over 1 year ago | 43 comments
  19. Well Temperaments (Part 5) (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
    41 points by chmaynard about 1 year ago | 9 comments
  20. Discussing the Neptunian desert, savanna, and ridge (mathstodon.xyz)
    31 points by ColinWright 7 months ago | 7 comments
  21. What's Causing the Great Stagnation? (mathstodon.xyz)
    15 points by hackandthink 4 months ago | 1 comments
  22. Obelisks (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
    9 points by hackandthink 3 months ago | discuss
  23. Threats to Climate-Related US Agencies (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
    6 points by ggeorgovassilis 5 months ago | 1 comments
  24. What Is Entropy? (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
    6 points by mathgenius 9 months ago | 1 comments
  25. The Probability of Undecidability (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
    5 points by dargscisyhp about 1 year ago | discuss
  26. Category Theorists in AI (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
    4 points by nabla9 2 months ago | discuss
  27. Agent-Based Models (Part 3) (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
    4 points by ColinWright over 1 year ago | discuss
  28. Bosons, Fermions and Clifford Algebras (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
    4 points by mathgenius almost 2 years ago | discuss
  29. The Color of Infinite Temperature (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
    3 points by throwup238 about 1 year ago | 2 comments
  30. The asteroid posing the greatest threat of collision is called 2024 YR₄ (mathstodon.xyz)
    3 points by ColinWright 2 months ago | discuss
  31. Compact Multi-Planet Systems (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
    3 points by chmaynard 5 months ago | discuss