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John Wickerson
Personal blog · johnwickerson.wordpress.comhardwareprogramming
John Wickerson writes Wickopedia, a personal blog at johnwickerson.wordpress.com about hardware and programming. Since 2016, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Mix-testing: revealing a new class of compiler bugs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-26, 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 its posts on ReDoS (regular expression denial of service). The only comment discusses compiling the re2c regex engine to WebAssembly for runtime use, not the writing itself.
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.
A blog by John Wickerson
Most-linked posts?
- Mix-testing: revealing a new class of compiler bugs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-28
- C4: The C Compiler Concurrency Checker2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-06-09
- Memory Consistency Models, and how to compare them automatically2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-11-11
- How to Draw Block Diagrams (2019)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-08-08
- Diagrams for Composing Compilers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-21
What Hacker News says?
Actually one more thing I realized about this idea that would be wild... Since re2c itself is written in C, it can be easily compiled to wasm (even if it has a few gotos). So then you get an engine that can compile user patterns at runtime, rather than having it be an offline process. (I don't really think there is that much difference in constraints between the offline and online processes, as some of have suggeste…
Comment linking /2020/05/21/diagrams-for-composing-compilers/
on “ReDoS: Regular Expression Denial of Service”Submitted Highlights from FPGA 2020 as a story · 93 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Hoare Cube as a story · 86 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automated feature testing of Verilog parsers using fuzzing as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted CXL: What’s All the Fuss About? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Diagrams for Composing Compilers as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mix-testing: revealing a new class of compiler bugs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fuzzing High-Level Synthesis Tools as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Memory Consistency Models, and how to compare them automatically as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Are conference reviewers harsher when they have a submission of their own? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mix-testing: revealing a new class of compiler concurrency bugs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Draw Block Diagrams (2019) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted C4: The C Compiler Concurrency Checker as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Verified high-level synthesis – now with hyperblocks as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted C4: The C Compiler Concurrency Checker as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Loop invariants – where should we put them? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modulo scheduling with rational initiation intervals as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Draw Block Diagrams as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Memory Consistency Models, and how to compare them automatically as a story · 1 points
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