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akr.am
Personal blog · akr.am/blog · on HN as thefilmoreprogrammingsystems
akr.am is a personal blog at akr.am about programming and systems. Since 2018, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “A graph of programming languages connected through compilers”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link akr.am's list of languages that compile to JavaScript. One commenter paired it with a graph of languages that transpile to each other, posted to HN separately.
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?
- A graph of programming languages connected through compilers3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-07-06
- A Tricky Floating-Point Calculation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-27
What Hacker News says?
I wrote a guide [1] that collects this information in one place. [1] https://akr.am/blog/posts/a-guide-to-compiling-programs-on-w...
Comment linking /blog/posts/a-guide-to-compiling-programs-on-windows
on “I built a native Windows Todo app in pure C (278 KB, no frameworks)”Submitted GitLab Isn’t Really Open-Source as a story · 258 points
HN discussionI wrote one [1] a while ago. [1] https://akr.am/blog/posts/a-guide-to-compiling-programs-on-w...
Comment linking /blog/posts/a-guide-to-compiling-programs-on-windows
on “A guide to Windows application development using w64devkit”Submitted A graph of programming languages connected through compilers as a story · 241 points
HN discussiona graph of languages that transpile to each other was posted on HN a couple months ago, and pairs great with this list: https://akr.am/languages/ discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17470161
Comment linking /languages/
on “List of languages that compile to JS”Submitted Parsing JSON in Forty Lines of Awk as a story · 129 points
HN discussionSubmitted Today in History, Brought to You by Unix as a story · 80 points
HN discussionSubmitted Abusing CSS to create colored dots as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unix Is Not Linux as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generating User-Friendly Random IDs (2017) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Self-Hosted Dynamic DNS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Installing FreeBSD on Oracle Cloud as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted MacOS Terminal Timer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Tricky Floating-Point Calculation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Tricky Floating-Point Calculation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Guide to Compiling Programs on Windows as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Get Notifications from the Terminal as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Editing Configuration Files Programmatically as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Will Software Engineering Survive? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Improving Date Formatting Performance in Node.js as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Languages and Compilers Network Graph as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using UTF-8 in the Windows Terminal as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted MacOS Terminal Dark Mode Toggle as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted API Errors as Exceptions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zero-Setup Web Analytics as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted JavaScript Generator Gotchas as a story · 1 points
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