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awilkins.id.au is a personal blog at blog.awilkins.id.au about programming. Since 2011, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Go in the Browser: llgo does PNaCl”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.

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10mentions?
10HN people?
2011–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog's llgo posts, about a Go frontend that targets Portable Native Client to run Go in the browser. Comments use them as background on PNaCl and Go-in-browser work.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Go in the Browser: llgo does PNaCl
    7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2012-12-25

What Hacker News says?

  1. michaelwww · 2013-03-16
    Related: Andrew Wilkins has written his NaCl module in Go http://blog.awilkins.id.au/2012/12/go-in-browser-llgo-does-p...

    Comment linking /2012/12/go-in-browser-llgo-does-pnacl.html

    on “Google Kills Its RSS Subscription Browser Extension Too”
  2. stevedomin · 2013-05-18

    Submitted Llgo on Go 1.1 as a story · 55 points

    HN discussion
  3. axw · 2013-11-13
    Indeed, something I have been thinking about for over a year ;) http://blog.awilkins.id.au/2012/12/go-in-browser-llgo-does-p... Sadly I don't have a lot of time, so progress is quite slow. The PNaCl support isn't working at all at the moment, as I'm going through a fairly major refactoring to make things a bit more solid.

    Comment linking /2012/12/go-in-browser-llgo-does-pnacl.html

    on “Portable Native Client”
  4. usea · 2013-03-17

    Submitted Go in the Browser: llgo does PNaCl as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. eliben · 2013-11-12Recommends
    You'll be interested in this project, then: http://blog.awilkins.id.au/2012/12/go-in-browser-llgo-does-p... It's important to emphasize that PNaCl is a platform. We currently provide front-ends for C and C++, but nothing prevents you from writing your own, for your own language (or an existing one). As long as you emit PNaCl bitcode, Chrome will run it for you. The PNaCl bitcode has a definition here - https://devel…

    Comment linking /2012/12/go-in-browser-llgo-does-pnacl.html

    on “Google launches Portable Native Client”
  6. signa11 · 2014-01-07

    Submitted llgo (golang frontend for llvm) now uses go.tools/ssa as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. vanderZwan · 2013-05-18
    Andrew Wilkins is working on a Go frontend that can also target PNaCL[1], but since it's a spare time project and he just had a baby it's slowed down. So if anyone want to help him out... [1] http://blog.awilkins.id.au/2012/12/go-in-browser-llgo-does-p...

    Comment linking /2012/12/go-in-browser-llgo-does-pnacl.html

    on “Google Introduces Portable Native Client”
  8. mikespook · 2012-12-25

    Submitted Go in the Browser: llgo does PNaCl as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. jared314 · 2013-05-18
    There is an earlier post about that. http://blog.awilkins.id.au/2012/12/go-in-browser-llgo-does-p...

    Comment linking /2012/12/go-in-browser-llgo-does-pnacl.html

    on “Llgo on Go 1.1”
  10. pixdamix · 2011-09-06

    Submitted Using cpython to do LD_PRELOAD hooks as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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