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Eric Khun
Personal blog · erickhun.com · on HN as eric_khunprogrammingai
Eric Khun's personal blog at erickhun.com covers programming and ai. Since 2019, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Explaining Blockchains to Developers”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a post on Taiwan's semiconductor industry and why it is hard to build a chip business there. One comment cites it to argue that many have tried and failed.
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.
I write about AI - Taiwan - Scalability - Infrastructure - Engineering
Most-linked posts?
- Explaining Blockchains to Developers2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-07-02
- Why Taiwan?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-01
- Why you should have a side project2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-10-08
- Sharing Knowledge in a Remote team, across Timezones2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-01
What Hacker News says?
The world starts realising all the processors that everyone depends on is mainly from Taiwan. I just wrote an article[1] about the importance of processors and talking about key players such that help the semis industry such ASML, and why it's not that simple to get into the game. . It's not as easy as pouring money into some companies. Sourcing trusted partners + years (decades?) of R&D might be needed to achieve w…
Comment linking /posts/world-innovation-taiwan-semiconductors/?c
on “EU Signs €145B Declaration to Develop Next Gen Processors and 2nm Technology”Submitted Why you should have a side project as a story · 263 points
HN discussionnot that easy. The barrier to entry is really high, many have tried and failed: https://erickhun.com/posts/world-innovation-taiwan-semicondu...
Comment linking /posts/world-innovation-taiwan-semiconductors/
on “Intel outsources Core i3 to TSMC's 5nm process”Submitted The World's current and next Innovations depend on a single country, Taiwan as a story · 160 points
HN discussionI completely can relate to your experiences (wrote a post about side projects [1]). Strongly agree with "Programming in a void is worthless". Learning a new language shouldn't be the purpose to start a new project, it should just be a tool to get a side project going. And the goal of the side project will make you force you to use it, so it's a great way to learn. It can sometimes be a struggle to learn how to achie…
Comment linking /posts/why-you-should-have-a-side-project/
on “What eight years of side projects have taught me (2019)”Submitted Kubernetes: Make your services faster by removing CPU limits as a story · 129 points
HN discussionSomething I really enjoy at Taiwan is the bike sharing system they've put all around the country. Liking it at a point where I've wrote an essaye about it[1]. It's cheap, everywhere, and built on a really high standard [1] https://erickhun.com/posts/taiwan-youbike-bike-sharing/
Comment linking /posts/taiwan-youbike-bike-sharing/
on “Bringing civic tech to Taiwan's coronavirus pandemic response [audio]”Submitted NFT misconception: JPEG aren't stored on the Blockchain as a story · 101 points
HN discussionYes not only bus or metro, but almost everything. Taiwan put a considerable amount of effort to have a 1 card to rule them all. And it makes life so much easier[1] [1] https://erickhun.com/posts/taiwan-youbike-bike-sharing/
Comment linking /posts/taiwan-youbike-bike-sharing/
on “Eagle Cash”Submitted Explaining Blockchains to Developers as a story · 60 points
HN discussionFor knowledge sharing in a remote team (been working 6y remotely), we do lot of videos sharing called Snackchat and Impromptus Knowledge Screencasts [1]. When there is a question, we give the answer, but also try to give the more context as possible , with a link to a document or slack conversation. [1] https://erickhun.com/posts/sharing-knowledge-in-a-remote-tea...
Comment linking /posts/sharing-knowledge-in-a-remote-team/
on “Ask HN: How does your organisation train programmers?”Submitted Sharing Knowledge in a Remote team, across Timezones as a story · 53 points
HN discussionI live in Taiwan and try to run some beach volleyball games. It's not common here, and not easy to find players. Writing this article[1] helped me to recruit constantly new players (it ranks 1st/2nd in Google). Sometimes I write about things I want people know about Taiwan like their bike-sharing system[2], semiconductors[3], or simply good food in Taiwan[4]. Sometimes, I write about tech stuff, like kubernetes cpu…
Comment linking /posts/explaining-blockchains-to-developers/
on “Ask HN: What has your personal website/blog done for you?”Submitted Explaining Blockchain to Developers as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Taiwan's Bike-Sharing Infrastructure as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Explaining “Proof-of-Work” Blockchains to Developers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Explaining Blockchains to Developers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Taiwan? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Taiwan? as a story · 2 points
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