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Personal blog · xuejie.spaceprogrammingsystems

Less is more is a personal blog at xuejie.space about programming and systems. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.

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6mentions?
3HN people?
2019–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2019

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

Why HN links it

The only comment is an Ask HN reply about work on RISC-V VMs for blockchains, including porting game loops, physics and collision detection to blockchain VMs. It does not discuss the linked post.

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.

What Hacker News says?

  1. Note: this involves blockchain VMs. If that's a dealbreaker, feel free to skip. I get it. I've spent 8 years working on RISC-V VMs for blockchains, recently also contributing to ZK VMs. Modern blockchain VMs are drastically more powerful, and I'm curious how far we can push them. I started porting real game logic to blockchain VMs, running game loop, physics simulation, collision detection, etc., on blockchain VMs.…

    Comment linking /2026_07_10_cpp_ray_tracer_on_jolt_zk_vm/

    on “Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)”
  2. Submitted Introduction to CKB Script Programming 2: Script Basics as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Diviner: A New Attempt on Deterministic Testing as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted CKB Script Programming in Rust: Validation Model as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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