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Ishuah Kariuki

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Ishuah Kariuki's personal blog at ishuah.com covers programming and systems. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Build a Simple Terminal Emulator in 100 Lines of Golang”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.

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6mentions?
3HN people?
2012–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2012

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

Why HN links it

The only linked post is a tutorial on building a terminal emulator in 100 lines of code. The comment linking it is a self-promotion by the author.

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.

Ishuah Kariuki is a software engineer and SRE specializing in AI safety and alignment.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Build a Simple Terminal Emulator in 100 Lines of Golang
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-11-25

What Hacker News says?

  1. Shameless plug: I wrote an article on building a terminal emulator in 100 lines of code - https://ishuah.com/2021/03/10/build-a-terminal-emulator-in-1...

    Comment linking /2021/03/10/build-a-terminal-emulator-in-100-lines-of-go/

    on “Write Your Own Terminal”
  2. Submitted Build a Simple Terminal Emulator in 100 Lines of Golang as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted TodoMVC: A node.js + MongoDb adventure as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Understanding the Linux TTY Subsystem as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Build a Simple Terminal Emulator in 100 Lines of Golang as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Realtime todo web app, based on TodoMVC as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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