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Benjamin Blundell

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Benjamin Blundell's personal blog at benjamin.computer covers hardware, programming and science. Since 2018, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.

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5HN people?
2018–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2018

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Why HN links it

HN readers link this personal blog for its geeky side, including an electronic wedding invitation that one commenter calls a favourite. The commenter says the rest of the site is quite something.

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.

My name is Dr Benjamin Blundell. I make things with computers.

What Hacker News says?

  1. Schiphol · 2018-07-26Recommends
    Benjamin seems to be a bona fide geek, and the rest of his website is quite something. The [electronic wedding invitation]( https://benjamin.computer/posts/2016-11-29-WeddingInvite.htm... ) is another favorite of mine. I don't think he is trolling, no.

    Comment linking /posts/2016-11-29-WeddingInvite.html

    on “Attempting to modify e-coli with CRISPR in my bathroom”
  2. Submitted Attempting to modify e-coli with CRISPR in my bathroom as a story · 56 points

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  3. Submitted Modernising the Amiga at Forty as a story · 54 points

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  4. Submitted Multiply – a book about calculators I helped create as a story · 45 points

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  5. Submitted The Holy Trinity of WireGuard, Hosts and PiHole as a story · 20 points

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  6. Submitted Cell Segmentation with U-Net and Others as a story · 17 points

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  7. Submitted Upgrading an Amiga 500 for Today as a story · 13 points

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  8. Submitted Creating protein loops in Tensorflow as a story · 5 points

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  9. Submitted Rust, Python and Fish as a story · 4 points

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  10. Submitted Linux 4K Demo Development as a story · 3 points

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  11. Submitted Visualising the PyTorch Compute Graph for Bug Fixing as a story · 2 points

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  12. Submitted Reading ROMS from a scanning electron microscope (2018) as a story · 2 points

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  13. Submitted Mixing Deep Learning and Structural Biology Part 1 as a story · 2 points

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  14. Submitted Profiling Python Programs Promptly as a story · 1 points

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  15. Submitted Blocking Big Battery Booms (With Bootloaders) as a story · 1 points

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  16. Submitted Getting nice stats out of PyTorch Microscopy Experiments as a story · 1 points

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  17. Submitted The Cybar at Electromagnetic Field 2018 as a story · 1 points

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