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Ben Simms
Personal blog · bensimms.moehardwareprogrammingsystems
Ben Simms's personal blog at bensimms.moe covers hardware, programming and systems. Since 2026, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's post on what ORMs taught the author about learning SQL. One commenter discusses the Haskell query library Rel8 and their Rust port of it, without judging the post.
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?
- Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-09-08
What Hacker News says?
I really enjoy using Rel8 ( https://rel8.readthedocs.io/ ), so much so that I reimplemented it in Rust ( https://github.com/simmsb/rust-rel8 ). For me I find it's an excellent step up from a plain SQL query builder (with an API such as `select(Foo).join(bar)`) as it lets me both effortlessly perform projections (one can write `(\e -> (e.foo, e.bar) <$> someQuery` to take a query producing rows of `E` and turn it int…
Comment linking /postgres-lateral-makes-quite-a-good-dsl/
on “What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)”Submitted Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust as a story · 452 points
HN discussionSubmitted Squeezing rust onto more things, this time: Flashlights as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reverse engineering my E-Scooter and rewriting it in Rust as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rooting My IoT Stand Mixer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Postgres's lateral joins allow for quite the good eDSL as a story · 1 points
HN discussion