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bitplane.net is a personal blog at bitplane.net about programming, systems and history. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link this blog for its Rust reimplementations of older formats and tools, such as an Amiga LZX port. One commenter notes the author seems to enjoy this kind of project.

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.

The author on HN?

davidsong · 247 karma · member since 2013

https://github.com/bitplane / gaz@bitplane.net

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

What Hacker News says?

  1. The same guy reimplemented Amiga LZX in Rust. https://bitplane.net/dev/rust/amiga-lzx/ He seems to like doing this kind of stuff.

    Comment linking /dev/rust/amiga-lzx/

    on “Rars: a Rust RAR implementation, mostly written by LLMs”
  2. Submitted Inkey$ and His 8 Legs as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Rars: a Rust RAR implementation, mostly written by LLMs as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted On software aptitude tests as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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