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Nikita Baksalyar

Personal blog · nbaksalyar.github.io · on HN as nbaksalyarprogrammingsystems

Nikita Baksalyar's personal blog at nbaksalyar.github.io covers programming and systems. Since 2015, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Rust in Detail: Writing Scalable Chat Service from Scratch (2015)”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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12mentions?
9HN people?
2015–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2015

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this post about debugging in Rust, as a pointer to the state of Rust's debugging tools. The only comment is a bare link with a remark about the topic, not the writing.

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.

The author on HN?

nbaksalyar · 2,571 karma · member since 2011

Feel free to contact me at nikita.baksalyar@gmail.com (or Twitter @nbaksalyar). My blog: http://nbaksalyar.github.io/

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Rust in Detail: Writing Scalable Chat Service from Scratch (2015)
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-10-12
  2. A Future for Debugging Rust
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-09-29
  3. The Soul of a New Debugger
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-12

What Hacker News says?

  1. msie · 2020-09-29
    I hope the debugging story for Rust gets better: https://nbaksalyar.github.io/2020/05/19/rust-debug.html

    Comment linking /2020/05/19/rust-debug.html

    on “Rust 2021: GUI”
  2. ghosthamlet · 2018-04-14

    Submitted Rust in Detail: Writing Scalable Chat Service from Scratch (2015) as a story · 38 points

    HN discussion
  3. nbaksalyar · 2019-12-03
    SEEKING WORK | REMOTE or UK I'm a senior Rust engineer with experience in compilers, distributed systems, networking (including decentralized networks), native libraries & APIs, and performance optimization. Email: nikita.baksalyar@gmail.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nbaksalyar/ Website: http://nbaksalyar.github.io/

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (December 2019)”
  4. adamnemecek · 2015-10-12

    Submitted Rust in Detail: Writing Scalable Chat Service from Scratch as a story · 32 points

    HN discussion
  5. nbaksalyar · 2015-11-09

    Submitted Rust in Detail: Writing Scalable Chat Service from Scratch, Part 2 as a story · 21 points

    HN discussion
  6. jkire · 2015-07-11

    Submitted Rust in Detail: Writing Scalable Chat Service from Scratch as a story · 19 points

    HN discussion
  7. nbaksalyar · 2015-07-10

    Submitted Rust in Detail: Writing Scalable Chat Service from Scratch as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  8. nbaksalyar · 2020-07-12

    Submitted The Soul of a New Debugger as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. woadwarrior01 · 2015-10-12

    Submitted Rust in Detail: Writing Scalable Chat Service from Scratch as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  10. fanf2 · 2020-10-05

    Submitted A Future for Debugging Rust as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. pcr910303 · 2020-09-30

    Submitted A Future for Rust Debugging as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. lukastyrychtr · 2020-07-16

    Submitted The Soul of a New Debugger as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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