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Andrew Sampson
Personal blog · andrews.substack.comprogrammingsystemsweb
Andrew Sampson writes ./make, a personal blog at andrews.substack.com about programming, systems and web. Since 2025, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Zeroperl: Sandboxing Perl with WebAssembly”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-02, 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 this Substack for its series on sandboxing Perl with WebAssembly. One commenter calls Part 1 interesting and says it makes more sense than the Part 2 subhead.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- Zeroperl: Sandboxing Perl with WebAssembly4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-02-10
What Hacker News says?
Subhead is "Sandboxing Perl with WebAssembly - Part 2." The subhead sounds weird, but part 1 makes more sense and is pretty interesting. Perl has many modules to deal with file formats nobody has used since Perl's prime. It isn't totally clear to me if the goal is to compile the Perl interpreter into WASM or interpreter + modules. In any either case the goal is to re-use the original tools within new tooling. I’m bu…
Comment linking /p/zeroperl-sandboxed-perl-with-webassembly
on “Zeroperl: Sandboxing Perl with WebAssembly”Submitted Reverse engineering iWork as a story · 123 points
HN discussionSubmitted Get in loser. We're rewinding the stack as a story · 87 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zeroperl: Sandboxing Perl with WebAssembly as a story · 68 points
HN discussionSubmitted 4 mains or nothing at all as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Sandboxing Perl with WebAssembly as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hako: An embeddable, lightweight, secure, high-performance JavaScript engine as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted TypeScript X Perl as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zeroperl: Sandboxing Perl with WebAssembly as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Embedding TypeScript as a story · 1 points
HN discussion