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Lethal Guitar is a personal blog at lethalguitar.wordpress.com about programming and games. Since 2017, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Re-implementing an old DOS game in C++ 17 (2019)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-11-19, and you can follow it by feed.

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12mentions?
8HN people?
2017–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2024

Guitars and Code.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Re-implementing an old DOS game in C++ 17 (2019)
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-05-29
  2. Graphical effects in Duke Nukem 1 and 2, part 1
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-13
  3. Full Duke Nukem II source code recreated
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-26

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted How Duke Nukem II’s parallax scrolling worked as a story · 250 points

    HN discussion
  2. Submitted Re-implementing an old DOS game in C++ 17 (2019) as a story · 198 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Re-implementing an old DOS game in C++ 17 (2019) as a story · 54 points

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  4. Submitted Re-implementing an old DOS game in C++ 17 as a story · 53 points

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  5. Submitted Optimizing RigelEngine’s OpenGL Rendering for the Raspberry Pi as a story · 40 points

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  6. Submitted Graphical effects in Duke Nukem 1 and 2, part 1 as a story · 28 points

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  7. Submitted Graphical effects in Duke Nukem 1 and 2, part 1 as a story · 7 points

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  8. Submitted A technique for using automatic memory management (RAII) with C libraries as a story · 2 points

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  9. Submitted Full Duke Nukem II source code recreated as a story · 1 points

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  10. Submitted Full Duke Nukem II source code recreated (2022) as a story · 1 points

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  11. Submitted RAII with C Libraries as a story · 1 points

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  12. Submitted Challenges in adding widescreen mode to Duke Nukem II clone as a story · 1 points

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