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David Hamp-Gonsalves

Personal blog · davidhampgonsalves.com · on HN as dh-gprogrammingwriting

David Hamp-Gonsalves's personal blog at davidhampgonsalves.com covers programming and writing. Since 2012, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “Solar Powered Conways Game of Life”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-11, and you can follow it by feed.

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27mentions?
9HN people?
2012–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2023

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for a Spritz-style RSVP reader bookmarklet, a tool for reading text one word at a time. The only comment is a bare link, with no judgment of the writing.

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?

dh-g · 300 karma · member since 2017

https://www.davidhampgonsalves.com/

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

Most-linked posts?

  1. /spritz-like-rsvp-reader-bookmarklet/
    2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-03-05
  2. Solar Powered Conways Game of Life
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-07-27
  3. Keeping Foxish alive for 13 years
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-23
  4. Junk Drawer Phone as a Music Streaming Server
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-28

What Hacker News says?

  1. I made a small solar powered CGOL( https://davidhampgonsalves.com/solar-powered-conways-game-of... ) that has a low pixel count. After 100 frames it randomly generates a new starting point b/c I didn't implement loop detection. Are their any algorithms or techniques for generating interesting starting states?

    Comment linking /solar-powered-conways-game-of-life/

    on “AMA: I'm Dave Greene, an accidental expert on Conway's Game of Life”
  2. Submitted Cracking Litter Box DRM as a story · 121 points

    HN discussion
  3. I made one with those features(except that pause doesn't jump to that word) http://www.davidhampgonsalves.com/spritz-like-rsvp-reader-bo...

    Comment linking /spritz-like-rsvp-reader-bookmarklet/

    on “Zethos – Speed reading tool in 1 kb”
  4. Submitted Barcode APIs as a story · 46 points

    HN discussion
  5. I made one too that has key bindings as well: http://www.davidhampgonsalves.com/spritz-like-rsvp-reader-bo...

    Comment linking /spritz-like-rsvp-reader-bookmarklet/

    on “Zethos – Speed reading tool in 1 kb”
  6. Submitted GitHub is your resume so keep your resume in GitHub as a story · 34 points

    HN discussion
  7. Made the same thing yesterday: http://www.davidhampgonsalves.com/spritz-like-rsvp-reader-bo... HN will probably see a lot of these in the next few days. Edit: Some users requested keybindings and I found them useful(pause, skip, rewind, etc).

    Comment linking /spritz-like-rsvp-reader-bookmarklet/

    on “Show HN: A Speed Reading Bookmarklet”
  8. Submitted Junk Drawer Phone as a Music Streaming Server as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  9. clickable link: http://www.davidhampgonsalves.com/spritz-like-rsvp-reader-bo...

    Comment linking /spritz-like-rsvp-reader-bookmarklet/

    on “Show HN: Spritz like bookmarklet”
  10. Submitted The Best Study Resources for Technical Interviews I've found as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  11. I have a music server(Navidrone) running on a similar setup ( https://davidhampgonsalves.com/junk-drawer-phone-as-a-music-... ) but preventing Termux from being killed is a persistent issue. PostmarketOS seems like the best option but its device support is quite limited.

    Comment linking /junk-drawer-phone-as-a-music-streaming-server/

    on “This Blog is hosted on my Android phone”
  12. Submitted SVG Based Vector Scope as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Longterm Cost of Personal Projects as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Solar Powered Pendulum as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Make a life dashboard with an old Kindle (KT 4) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Building IOS Phonegap apps without a Mac as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted DIY Photobooth as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Neon Vector Animation as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Keeping Foxish alive for 13 years as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted 13 Years of Foxish as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Solar Powered Conways Game of Life as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Surviving the Night in Conways Game of Life as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted A New Value Add for Being the Best as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Awesome Free Hosting Stacks as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted JSON Compression Techniques as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted Using Online Ads to Generate Bitcoins as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Phonegap and a million web framework choices as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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