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Ben Visness

Personal blog · bvisness.meprogrammingsystemssecurity

Ben Visness's personal blog at bvisness.me covers programming, systems and security. Since 2022, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “High-Level Is the Goal”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-03, and you can follow it by feed.

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17mentions?
13HN people?
2022–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2023

Most-linked posts?

  1. High-Level Is the Goal
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-01-03
  2. How Does Spectre Work?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-25
  3. LuaX: A Lua Dialect with JSX
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-12-27

What Hacker News says?

  1. kingstnap · 2026-01-21
    There is no ceiling to how much waste you can create. Much like stacks and stacks of badly written web frameworks made things like collapsing comments on new reddit 200 ms of JavaScript execution ( https://bvisness.me/high-level/burnitwithfire.png ) I can easily imagine people layer stuff together till token burn is beyond insane. I mean just look at the Gastown repository. Its like literally hundreds of thousands o…

    Comment linking /high-level/burnitwithfire.png

    on “Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge”
  2. nivethan · 2023-12-28

    Submitted You can't do that because I hate you as a story · 226 points

    HN discussion
  3. goranmoomin · 2023-12-30

    Submitted LuaX: A Lua Dialect with JSX as a story · 190 points

    HN discussion
  4. nalgeon · 2024-08-18

    Submitted Micro-libraries should never be used as a story · 180 points

    HN discussion
  5. bvisness · 2023-12-27

    Submitted I made JSX for Lua as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  6. nalgeon · 2024-03-25

    Submitted How Does Spectre Work? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. 1317 · 2026-01-03

    Submitted High-Level Is the Goal as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. aadhavans · 2024-08-19

    Submitted "It's always a tradeoff" (2023) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. bvisness · 2023-06-22

    Submitted Coroutines make robot code easy for high schoolers as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. jasonnchann · 2023-05-02

    Submitted How to make buttons in VR (2017) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. azhenley · 2022-12-31

    Submitted I did Advent of Code on a Playstation as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. tobr · 2026-01-15

    Submitted High-Level Is the Goal as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. gessha · 2026-01-07

    Submitted High-level is the goal. Why should anyone care about low-level programming? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. yla92 · 2024-07-11

    Submitted How Does Spectre Work? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. notmysql_ · 2023-05-14

    Submitted How to make a 3D renderer in Desmos as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. goranmoomin · 2023-01-01

    Submitted Untangling a bizarre WASM crash in Chrome as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. jasonnchann · 2022-12-19

    Submitted How to Make Buttons in VR as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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