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Martin Drashkov
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Martin Drashkov's personal blog at martin.drashkov.com covers hardware and ai. Since 2008, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “Why Perl Lost It”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-09, 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 cite this post on why Perl lost ground, arguing from the language's stalled development and weak adoption. One commenter says it does a good enough job of explaining this.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Why Perl Lost It2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-12-01
What Hacker News says?
A lot of us had a good laugh when people said the global android phenomenon would could to a halt because of the Verizon iPhone. My opinion on why the iPad will suffer the same fate: http://martin.drashkov.com/2011/03/why-android-tablets-will-...
Comment linking /2011/03/why-android-tablets-will-dominate.html
on “Android”Submitted Show HN: Check out the 23" Android 'tablet' I made for $600 as a story · 160 points
HN discussionI was thinking about the same thing a few months ago, so I wrote a blog post, which then turned into a little calculator. http://martin.drashkov.com/2015/09/how-cheap-can-autonomous-... Paying 15-20 cents per kilometre to ride in an autonomous taxi seems achievable. This means that public transit could become slightly cheaper and self-sustaining. At this rate, it also means people will likely be travelling a lot mor…
Comment linking /2015/09/how-cheap-can-autonomous-cars-get.html
on “How Cheap Can Electric Vehicles Get?”Submitted How To Make a 23" Android Touchscreen as a story · 9 points
HN discussionHere's something I wrote back in December based on no info: http://martin.drashkov.com/2009/12/iphone-4g-predictions.htm... Not that it means very much - changes like the screen, storage and ram/cpu were pretty obvious.
Comment linking /2009/12/iphone-4g-predictions.html
on “Steve Jobs live from WWDC 2010”Submitted Why Perl Lost It as a story · 9 points
HN discussionThis was by far the easiest thing to see coming to the 2010 iPhone. http://martin.drashkov.com/2009/12/iphone-4g-predictions.htm... I recently ported my company's iPhone app to Android (they both have the same look, rather than using each platform's look) and the difference between the two images side by side when testing on the Nexus One was striking. Quite simply, Apple could not have gone into the 2010 holiday se…
Comment linking /2009/12/iphone-4g-predictions.html
on “Why 960 x 640”Submitted What Comes After Services? Interpretation as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI wonder if marco reads HN? I'd be down for some action on longbets.com: http://martin.drashkov.com/2011/03/why-android-tablets-will-...
Comment linking /2011/03/why-android-tablets-will-dominate.html
on “Sales of obscure game consoles vs. non-iPad tablets”Submitted The iPhone 4G Predictions as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI really to believe the answer to RIM's troubles begins with Jon Rubinstein: http://martin.drashkov.com/2011/09/how-to-save-rim.html
Comment linking /2011/09/how-to-save-rim.html
on “RIM reportedly bails on PlayBook, considers exiting tablet market”Submitted Priced Android Applications Coming Within Weeks as a story · 7 points
HN discussion"Recently Martin Drashkov wrote "Why Perl lost It" ( http://martin.drashkov.com/2009/11/why-perl-lost-it.html ). " OMG, I'm famous! Now that fame is here, fortune must be right around the corner. ;) I wish I spent more than half an hour ranting there. I could have made a much better argument, especially concerning new programmers and Perl.
Comment linking /2009/11/why-perl-lost-it.html
on “Damian Conway on Perl and its future”Submitted Why Android Tablets Will Dominate as a story · 4 points
HN discussionTo be honest, I am a little baffled that they haven't already. Around this time last year I wrote about why Apple would use a 960x640 screen in it's 4th iPhone* and I naturally expected a product line split. It would have made perfect sense to have a top-end 4" 960x640 phone and a low-end phone using the old screen, less RAM and other money-saving components. Perhaps they wanted to hold off another year protecting t…
Comment linking /2009/12/iphone-4g-predictions.html
on “The Smartphone Explosion”Submitted Why the BlackBerry Storm 2 Could be a Winner as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWhat length of comment is required for you to begin introspection? This does a good enough job: http://martin.drashkov.com/2009/11/why-perl-lost-it.html . I personally look to lack of advancement of the language and lack of adoption for new ventures. Google adopted Python for GAE, for example. Heroku used Ruby for their PaaS product. When you look at new devops tools they aren't written in Perl. So, it's not a matte…
Comment linking /2009/11/why-perl-lost-it.html
on “What is "Modern Perl"?”Submitted How To Save RIM: Hire Jon Rubinstein as a story · 3 points
HN discussionShameless Plug: I built a similar 23" Android "tablet" last year. http://martin.drashkov.com/2011/09/android-megapad-23-androi... I thought Android is a much better choice of an OS, seeing as how many apps would already scale up nicely. I still think this is a valid product category - various specialized kiosks and smartboards will soon be replaced. I guess we'll see whether it'll be Android or Win8 (or some Apple t…
Comment linking /2011/09/android-megapad-23-android-tablet-for.html
on “Sony launches 20 inch tablet running Windows 8”Submitted The difference between Android and iPhone illustrated as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMy thoughts on this from a few days ago: http://martin.drashkov.com/2010/03/nexus-one-as-halo-product...
Comment linking /2010/03/nexus-one-as-halo-product.html
on “The Nexus One is a Failure (Fat Chance)”Submitted Letting Gemini Drive My Rover as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAs the article notes regular Gemini and Gemma also have spatial reasoning capabilities, which I decided to test by seeing if Gemini could drive a little rover successfully, which it mostly did: https://martin.drashkov.com/2026/02/letting-gemini-drive-my-... LLMs are really good at the sort of tasks that have been missing from robotics: understanding, reasoning, planning etc, so we'll likely see much more use of them…
Comment linking /2026/02/letting-gemini-drive-my-rover.html
on “Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6”Submitted A Stadium Full of Ancestors as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI recently got started and as others have said, it helps to have some idea of what you want to do, since 'robotics' is such a wide field. In my case I was curious if I can get LLMs to drive a robot, so I bought a quality, mostly-assembled chassis ( https://www.waveshare.com/ugv-beast.htm ) that let me focus more on software and sensors. If you want more low-level stuff, you can make your own chassis (motors, 3d prin…
Comment linking /2026/02/letting-gemini-drive-my-rover.html
on “Ask HN: How to get started with robotics as a hobbyist?”Submitted How Cheap Can Autonomous Cars Get? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Nexus One as a halo product as a story · 1 points
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