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Julian Hunt

Personal blog · julian.bearblog.dev · on HN as julianh65systemsprogramming

Julian Hunt writes Julian's Blog, a personal blog at julian.bearblog.dev about systems and programming. Since 2022, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “The Internet from Rocks – A High Level Explanation of Computers and the Internet”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-04-16, and you can follow it by feed.

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7mentions?
5HN people?
2022–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2022

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Julian Hunt's post 'The Internet from Rocks', a high-level explanation of computers and the internet. The comments are bare links or brief mentions, with no judgment of the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Julian Hunt's Blog

The author on HN?

julianh65 · 135 karma · member since 2020

https://julian.bearblog.dev/

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The Internet from Rocks – A High Level Explanation of Computers and the Internet
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-07-11

What Hacker News says?

  1. Reminds me of The Internet from Rocks at https://julian.bearblog.dev/the-internet-from-rocks/ .

    Comment linking /the-internet-from-rocks/

    on “Ask HN: Do you also marvel at the complexity of everyday objects?”
  2. Submitted The Internet from Rocks – A High Level Explanation of Computers and the Internet as a story · 32 points

    HN discussion
  3. The blog post’s path was edited: - Old: https://julian.bearblog.dev/the-internet-from-rocks-a-high-l... - New: https://julian.bearblog.dev/the-internet-from-rocks/ They should have also set up a redirect. Cool URIs don’t change.

    Comment linking /the-internet-from-rocks/

    on “The Internet from Rocks – A High Level Explanation of Computers and the Internet”
  4. Submitted The Internet from Rocks – A High Level Explanation of Computers and the Internet as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. https://julian.bearblog.dev/the-internet-from-rocks/

    Comment linking /the-internet-from-rocks/

    on “The Internet from Rocks – A High Level Explanation of Computers and the Internet”
  6. Submitted A High Level Explanation of Computers and the Internet (2022) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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