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Daniel Prilik
Personal blog · prilik.com/blogprogrammingsystemshardware
Daniel Prilik's personal blog at prilik.com covers programming, systems and hardware. Since 2018, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Paravirtualized Devices in Crosvm – A Performance Panacea for Modern VMs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked by HN readers for a post on turning a dumb air conditioner smart without losing a rental security deposit. The one comment points to a section listing rejected options for the problem.
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.
Daniel Prilik, Software Engineer
Most-linked posts?
- Paravirtualized Devices in Crosvm – A Performance Panacea for Modern VMs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-05-21
- A Quest to Find a Highly Compressed Emoji:Shortcode: Lookup Function2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-27
- WideNES – Peeking Past the Edge of NES Games2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-08-27
- Show HN: Turning a Dumb AC Unit Smart (Without Losing My Security Deposit)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-21
What Hacker News says?
I actually had to wrestle with this exact effect while working on wideNES [1]. By saving a screenshot of the screen at each frame alongside with it's PPUSCROLL value, it's possible to gradually build-up a map of the level as it's explored. Moreover, on subsequent playthroughs of the same level, it's possible to sync the map with the on-screen action, effectively enabling a "widescreen" mode for old NES games (with c…
Comment linking /blog/2018/08/24/wideNES.html
on “Zelda Screen Transitions Are Undefined Behaviour”Submitted WideNES – Peeking Past the Edge of NES Games as a story · 249 points
HN discussionThere are two other rejected ideas discussed in the section: What are my options here? https://prilik.com/blog/post/automating-ac-nyc/#-what-are-my...
Comment linking /blog/post/automating-ac-nyc/
on “Turning a Dumb AC Unit Smart (Without Losing My Security Deposit)”Submitted C Is Not Dependency Free as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSubmitted WideNES – Peeking Past the Edge of NES Games as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: ANESE – Another NES Emulator as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Quest to Find a Highly Compressed Emoji:Shortcode: Lookup Function as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted WideNES – Peeking Past the Edge of NES Games as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Turning a Dumb AC Unit Smart (Without Losing My Security Deposit) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Turning a Dumb AC Unit Smart (Without Losing My Security Deposit) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Paravirtualized Devices in Crosvm – A Performance Panacea for Modern VMs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Quest to Find a Highly Compressed Emoji :shortcode: Lookup Function as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted WideNES – Peeking Past the Edge of NES Games (2018) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Paravirtualized Devices in Crosvm: Performance Panacea for Modern VMs as a story · 1 points
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