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Nikhil Jha
Personal blog · nikhiljha.com/blog · on HN as ninjhasystemshardwareprogramming
Nikhil Jha's personal blog at nikhiljha.com covers systems, hardware and programming. Since 2018, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Using a 1978 terminal in 2026 (DEC VT-100)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in threads on Flutter and app development and on learning deep learning. One commenter calls his Flutter posts content-light and not well thought out; no comment recommends them.
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.
A student, maker, and more from California.
Most-linked posts?
- Using a 1978 terminal in 2026 (DEC VT-100)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-04-28
- ARM Clusters and Selfhosting: A Perfect Match2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-05-02
What Hacker News says?
Thanks for the blog link! definitely going to start reading! Have you seen the Flutter Show[0]? It's actually a pretty good watch, though I'm a little skeptical/suspicious of how hard the marketing team of Flutter is pushing things, it reeks of when subpar/fledgling projects try to advertise/market themselves to greatness. Then again, the way Flutter works is pretty novel for the space so it's clearly not a marketin…
Comment linking /blog/a-reflection-how-to-actually-write-apps
on “Dropbike: Data Breaches and Free Bike Rides”Submitted Using a 1978 terminal in 2026 (DEC VT-100) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI have a few posts about Flutter and app development in general, but they were mostly just to blow off steam (content-light) and aren't exactly well thought out: https://nikhiljha.com/blog I do plan to write a better comparison about the whole development lifecycle, performance, etc. later though. I'd also like to urge you to reconsider dart. It feels kind of like a Kotlin-Java hybrid language, and I mean that in th…
Comment linking /blog
on “Dropbike: Data Breaches and Free Bike Rides”Submitted Using a 1978 terminal in 2026 (DEC VT-100) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm trying to do something similar by starting the other way around (first why it works, then how it works) and so far it's working for me pretty well.[1] For reference, I'm in high school, so I don't really have the necessary math background to understand everything first try-but I think I'll be able to push through and understand it. The top down (fast.ai) approach didn't really work for me - as I felt like I didn…
Comment linking /2018/02/06/Neural-Networks-First-Steps/
on “How to learn Deep Learning in 6 months”Submitted Kubernetes is a container orchestration system, but that's not the point as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using a 1978 terminal in 2026 (DEC VT-100) · Nikhil Jha as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted ARM Clusters and Selfhosting: A Perfect Match as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted ARM Clusters and Selfhosting: A Perfect Match? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion