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Erik Engheim
Personal blog · erikexplores.substack.comprogrammingsystemshardware
Erik Engheim writes Erik Explores, a personal blog at erikexplores.substack.com about programming, systems and hardware. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Grokking RISC-V Vector Processing”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Substack for posts on RISC-V Vector extensions and on Unix shells and terminal emulators. The comments cite these as references and note the blog's URL change.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Software development, space exploration, green energy and microprocessors.
Most-linked posts?
- Grokking RISC-V Vector Processing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-05
What Hacker News says?
The purpose was to pick interesting features to talk about and select one language for each feature which is a good exponent for that features. For instance I used Smalltalk to cover image based development: https://erikexplores.substack.com/p/what-makes-smalltalk-uni... Yet Smalltalk was not the first language supporting image based development. I would pick Julia to talk about multiple dispatch. Likewise Zig is pi…
Comment linking /p/what-makes-smalltalk-unique
on “What Makes the Zig Programming Language Unique?”Submitted What Makes the Zig Programming Language Unique? as a story · 128 points
HN discussionV extension and SVE2 are very different. Here is a quite recent introduction to RISC-V Vector[0]. 0. https://erikexplores.substack.com/p/grokking-risc-v-vector-p...
Comment linking /p/grokking-risc-v-vector-processing
on “Transcoding Unicode with AVX-512: AMD Zen 4 vs. Intel Ice Lake”Submitted What Makes Lisp Unique? as a story · 33 points
HN discussionhttps://erikexplores.substack.com/p/unix-shells-and-terminal... "I changed the URL of my new substack, so apologies to every for whom I broke links. The new address is: https://erikexplores.substack.com " https://twitter.com/erikengheim/status/1548050604215283713
Comment linking /
on “Unix Shells and Terminal Emulators”Submitted The Zig and Go Programming Showdown as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Python Criticism from a Julia Perspective as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Handling Side Effects in Unison Programming Language as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Makes Julia Programming Language Unique? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generic Map, Filter and Reduce in Go as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Do Rocket Engines Look So Complex? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Big Rocket Showdown: Falcon 9 vs. Neutron as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing Code Without Plain Text Files as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Grokking RISC-V Vector Processing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Breaking Big Applications into Small Applications as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted OOP code in Carbon, C++ and Go Compared as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google Carbon vs. Apple Swift as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Julia Test Running: Best Practices as a story · 1 points
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