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David Yat
Personal blog · davidyat.es · on HN as dyatesprogrammingwritingproductivity
David Yat's personal blog at davidyat.es covers programming, writing and productivity. Since 2015, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 42 times, most often “GPU passthrough: gaming on Windows on Linux (2016)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's GPU passthrough guide, which covers running Windows in a VM with a dedicated GPU on Linux. Commenters describe the guide as fairly complete and detailed.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- GPU passthrough: gaming on Windows on Linux (2016)6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2016-11-15
- Lousy Workflow: The Project Wizard2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-03-01
- Creating a personal wiki with Vimwiki and Gollum (2017)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-04-07
- Mine cryptocurrency instead of clicking ads2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-11-11
What Hacker News says?
Mine is https://davidyat.es I write about a lot of different things, often technical, sometimes not. Common subjects include technical tutorials and rants, reviews of books and games, and thoughts about different aspects of internet culture. These are my three most popular posts: How to set up GPU passthrough on Linux: https://davidyat.es/2016/09/08/gpu-passthrough/ Why RSS is better than its modern replacements: ht…
Comment linking /2017/09/01/vimwiki-plus-gollum/
on “Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?”Submitted RSS: there's nothing better as a story · 640 points
HN discussionOn my list is a GPU passthrough setup, which is described in following blog post [1] (with screenshots). I did not set up it yet, but I will try it out next time I build up my home desktop from ground up. [1] https://davidyat.es/2016/09/08/gpu-passthrough/
Comment linking /2016/09/08/gpu-passthrough/
on “Wine 3.0 Released”Submitted Fraidycat as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://davidyat.es My personal blog, with some other stuff lying around. I've been neglecting it over the past year or so. It's a Hugo-powered static site, though I started off using Ghost. My design philosophy, such as it is: Have a unique look without being too esoteric, and minimise cruft on content pages ( https://davidyat.es/2019/05/05/site-redesign/ ) Provide a pleasant reading experience Use JavaScript spari…
Comment linking /2020/12/31/footnote-previews/
on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted Roam Research as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYes, it's an experiment I'm running in advertising-alternative monetisation. Importantly, all mining is consensual -- the miner will only run if you open the accordion and hit Play. Not sure if I made that clear enough in the blurb itself, but it's outlined in the linked post: https://davidyat.es/2017/10/01/js-crypto-mining/ I know these things have gotten a bad rap from various shenanigans with Showtime and TPB, bu…
Comment linking /2017/10/01/js-crypto-mining/
on “RSS: there's nothing better”Submitted The Unified Twitter Experience as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI found this guide which seems fairly complete: https://davidyat.es/2016/09/08/gpu-passthrough/
Comment linking /2016/09/08/gpu-passthrough/
on “Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising”Submitted RIP Google Inbox as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI wrote a short blog post[1] about this pattern a few years ago. I still don't understand why so many apps use this workflow, especially ones that previously didn't. Just let me deal with the project creation stuff on the first write instead of requiring all this up-front commitment! [1]: https://davidyat.es/2018/03/01/project-wizard/
Comment linking /2018/03/01/project-wizard/
on “Show HN: A user-friendly UI for viewing and editing Markdown files”Submitted Writing a LaTeX macro that takes a variable number of arguments as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'm trying to complete each challenge in a different language. I've written up the first five days on my blog[1]. Have completed a few more than just these, but I don't know that I'll get all of them done by Christmas. [1]: https://davidyat.es/2024/12/16/aoc-2024-part1/
Comment linking /2024/12/16/aoc-2024-part1/
on “Advent of Code on the Nintendo DS”Submitted Signifier Flotation Devices as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI taken to writing up tutorials for tasks that take me a non-trivial amount of effort to accomplish and are obscure enough to not have decent existing writeups on the first page of Google searches. Little things about [automating file upload in Ruby]( https://davidyat.es/2015/02/26/automated-file-upload-in-ruby... ) and [setting up a UniFi controller with SELinux]( https://davidyat.es/2015/03/02/unifi-centos-selinux…
Comment linking /select-only-nth-row-in-t-sql/
on “Blog Little Things”Submitted Death to the Document as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCongratulations on the achievement. I recently hit my 10 year blogging milestone.[1] I've also written about some similar thoughts to those in your linked "Content is King" post.[2] Long may the individualist personal website live. [1]: https://davidyat.es/2024/04/07/ten-years/ [2]: https://davidyat.es/2020/03/14/reader-modes/
Comment linking /2020/03/14/reader-modes/
on “20 Years of Blogging on my own website”Submitted Creating a personal wiki with Vimwiki and Gollum (2017) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou can start following here: https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/ it is a subreddit dedicated to hardware passthrough. They run Windows in a virtual machine, and pass a dedicated GPU into the VM, the results are very impressive, but the installation is very complicated, and you won't get rid of Windows. As VFIO matures, and the API stabilizes a bit more, I think we will see distros offering an easy "install and play" exp…
Comment linking /2016/09/08/gpu-passthrough/
on “Fix Windows 10 Privacy”Submitted Dumb Smart Quotes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionInteresting read! A lot of AoC challenges involve navigating 2D grids, which can map quite nicely onto the text adventure model of connected rooms with compass direction exits (a grid of straightforward little passages, all alike). This insight led me to attempt Day 6 from last year's Advent of Code in Inform 7[1], though I ultimately admitted defeat on the second half. I've always found Inform 7's Mathematics Textb…
Comment linking /2024/12/23/aoc-2024-part2/
on “Advent of Code on the Z-Machine”Submitted Tiling Window Managers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSeems to be a pretty detailed article: https://davidyat.es/2016/09/08/gpu-passthrough/
Comment linking /2016/09/08/gpu-passthrough/
on “Best Linux Distros for Gaming in 2017”Submitted Untangling the IndieWeb as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNot only those excellent points, but also why not just install Linux on the best hardware you have? A bunch of people's experience of GNU/Linux is going to be based on running it on old hardware. Select new hardware with freedom in mind: * no dodgy nVidia videocards * research the wireless chipset * research GPU passthrough capabilities of the CPU * install Windows (if you really need it) in a VM * profit This is ol…
Comment linking /2016/09/08/gpu-passthrough/
on “How to switch an old Windows laptop to Linux”Submitted Mine cryptocurrency instead of clicking ads as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI switched to Niri at the end of last year after over a decade on i3.[1] Having horizontal scroll unbounded by my monitor size and workspace count unbound by the number of shortcut keys I have configured has been very freeing, and the graphical stuff is nice too. My only remaining pain-point is that its X compatibility layer, xwayland-satellite, does not yet support drag and drop between X and Wayland programs.[2] […
Comment linking /2026/01/28/niri/
on “Niri 26.04 was just released (scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor)”Submitted GPU passthrough: gaming on Windows on Linux (2016) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lousy Workflow: The Project Wizard as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stable Diffusion as a story · 1 points
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