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geeklan.co.uk is a personal blog at geeklan.co.uk about systems and programming. Since 2015, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Repurposing FPGA-Based Products as Development Kits [pdf]”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

18mentions?
11HN people?
2015–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2020

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

Why HN links it

The only comment is a bare link to a hosted PDF on the Plan 9 compiler for RISC-V, shared as a reference in an HN thread about hand-optimizing the TCC code generator.

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. Repurposing FPGA-Based Products as Development Kits [pdf]
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-17
  2. A Plan 9 C compiler for RISC-V [pdf]
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-10-26

What Hacker News says?

  1. The plan9 compiler: https://www.geeklan.co.uk/files/oshug69-Miller-criscv.pdf

    Comment linking /files/oshug69-Miller-criscv.pdf

    on “Hand-optimizing the TCC code generator”
  2. Submitted A Plan 9 C compiler for RISC-V [pdf] as a story · 137 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted The Viewpoint Linux Distribution as a story · 36 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Western Digital SSDs and Legacy Macs as a story · 28 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Repurposing FPGA-Based Products as Development Kits [pdf] as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Lingering Mac Office 2008 workaround (2023) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Book Review: Practical File System Design with the Be File System as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted My MNT Reform laptop almost a year on as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted How to open source: going from NetBSD to Linux as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Trying to operate macOS in single user mode as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Building a l2tp/IPsec VPN based around a OpenBSD head-end – Part 1 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Cross-platform software packaging with pkgsrc as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Running Uxn on Mac OS X Tiger as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Ubuntu 22.10 on Sipeed Lichee RV board as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted My MNT Reform as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Repurposing FPGA-based products as development kits [pdf] as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Full name of root account in BSD as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Adventures in Open Source Software: Dealing with Security as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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