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Dave Airlie

Personal blog · airlied.blogspot.comsystemsprogramming

Dave Airlie's personal blog at airlied.blogspot.com covers systems and programming. Since 2018, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Linux graphics, why sharing code with Windows isn't always a win”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-16, and you can follow it by feed.

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17mentions?
15HN people?
2018–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2023

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link Dave Airlie's blog for posts about Linux graphics driver work, such as a 2018 post on RADV being Vulkan 1.1 conformant on launch day. Only one comment links it, as a citation.

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?

  1. Linux graphics, why sharing code with Windows isn't always a win
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-11-11
  2. Rust, Linux, Developers, Maintainers
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-30
  3. Vulkan video vp9 decode – radv update
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-14

What Hacker News says?

  1. Notably, radv is 1.1 conformant on launch day: https://airlied.blogspot.com/2018/03/radv-vulkan-11-coforman...

    Comment linking /2018/03/radv-vulkan-11-coformant-on-launch-day.html

    on “Vulkan 1.1 Released”
  2. Submitted Rust, Linux, Developers, Maintainers as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Fedora 38 LLVM vs. Team Fortress 2 as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Rust, Linux, Developers, Maintainers as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Linux graphics, why sharing code with Windows isn't always a win (Dave Arlie) as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Linux graphics, why sharing code with Windows isn't always a win as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Linux graphics, why sharing code with Windows isn't always a win as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Linux graphics, why sharing code with Windows isn't always a win as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted A tale of Vulkan/nouveau/nvk/zink/mutter and deadlocks as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Benchmarking LLMs on open source Vulkan as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted radv: Vulkan AV1 video decode status as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Update on Vulkan video decoding vith open-source AMD driver RADV as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Tinygrad and rusticl and aco: why not? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Nouveau/GSP and kernel module firmware selection for initramfs generation as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Vulkan video vp9 decode – radv update as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Vulkan Video VP9 Decode – AMD Radeon RADV Driver Update as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Why sharing code between Linux and Windows drivers isn't always a win as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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