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Andrew Lilley Brinker
Personal blog · alilleybrinker.com/blog · on HN as alilleybrinkersecurityprogramming
Andrew Lilley Brinker's personal blog at alilleybrinker.com covers security and programming. Since 2024, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Rust's Culture of Semantic Precision”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-05, 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 posts on Rust and Swift language design, including Rust's culture of semantic precision and a monads-in-Rust tutorial using property-based testing. Also linked is a post about 1Password funding.
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 a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic. I write about software security, memory safety, Rust, and open source.
Most-linked posts?
- Rust's Culture of Semantic Precision4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2026-01-17
- C++ Must Become Safer4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-07-17
- 1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-08-31
- Open Source Software and Corporate Influence2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-11
What Hacker News says?
Not everything will be rewritten in Rust. I've broken down the arguments for why this is, and why it's a good thing, elsewhere [1]. Google's recent analysis on their own experiences transitioning toward memory safety provide even more evidence that you don't need to fully transition to get strong safety benefits. They incentivized moving new code to memory safe languages, and continued working to actively assure the…
Comment linking /blog/cpp-must-become-safer/
on “Why Safety Profiles Failed”Submitted Open Source Software and Corporate Influence as a story · 64 points
HN discussionHere are a few good points: https://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/1password-funds-ethnic-c...
Comment linking /blog/1password-funds-ethnic-cleansing/
on “Omarchy: 1Password and 37signals become Distinguished Corporate Patrons”Submitted 1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe as a story · 35 points
HN discussion"Convenience" here basically means giving up semantic precision https://www.alilleybrinker.com/mini/rusts-culture-of-semanti... It's not clear that this is genuinely desirable.
Comment linking /mini/rusts-culture-of-semantic-precision/
on “Swift is a more convenient Rust”Submitted 1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe as a story · 23 points
HN discussionIn situations like this I appreciate that Rust has a culture of semantic precision [1] and while this kind of API-clarification is painful in the short-term, I think it will be worth it for Linux. [1]: https://www.alilleybrinker.com/mini/rusts-culture-of-semanti...
Comment linking /mini/rusts-culture-of-semantic-precision/
on “Read_once(), Write_once(), but Not for Rust”Submitted C++ Must Become Safer as a story · 8 points
HN discussionTough crowd! Curious what you found incomprehensible about it. I know I've taken a pretty novel approach here. The tutorial doesn't work for everyone, but it's been generally quite well-received (e.g. [1] [2] and many other people, both on social media and privately to me) and has helped a lot of people really understand the implications of monadic behavior for the first time. I'm happy to listen to feedback and see…
Comment linking /mini/the-best-monad-tutorial/
on “Demystifying monads in Rust through property-based testing”Submitted Open Source Software and Corporate Influence as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust's Culture of Semantic Precision as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted C++ Must Become Safer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted C++ Must Become Safer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Softlocking APIs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Move over Gas Town, Claude Has First-Party Agent Orchestration as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust's Culture of Semantic Precision as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust's Culture of Semantic Precision as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gas Town Decoded as a story · 1 points
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