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Matt Hall

Personal blog · mattjhall.co.uk/posts · on HN as mattjhallprogramming

Matt Hall's personal blog at mattjhall.co.uk covers programming. Since 2024, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Go Is a Well-Designed Language”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-15, and you can follow it by feed.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 10 in 2025

Matt Hall's personal website detailing his projects and with a blog

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mattjhall · 447 karma · member since 2021

Software Engineer in Manchester, UK mattjhall.co.uk

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Go Is a Well-Designed Language
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-01-07
  2. Taking OCaml and Eio for a Spin
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-20
  3. Be careful with Go struct embedding
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-05
  4. Snapit: Snapshot Testing for C
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-03

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted Be careful with Go struct embedding as a story · 134 points

    HN discussion
  2. Submitted Go Is a Well-Designed Language as a story · 71 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Implementing and Improving Skiplists as a story · 36 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Go Is a Well-Designed Language as a story · 20 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Snapit: Snapshot Testing for C as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Go is a well designed language, actually as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Jujutsu from the Trenches as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Taking OCaml and Eio for a Spin as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Snapit: Snapshot Testing for C as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Plan for Obsolescence as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted My First Armageddon Bug as a story · 2 points

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  12. Submitted Taking OCaml and Eio for a Spin as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Gas Town Is the Second Worst Place to Live as a story · 1 points

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  14. Submitted Be Careful with Go Struct Embedding as a story · 1 points

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