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Rik's Weblog
Personal blog · huijzer.xyz/postsprogrammingaipolitics
Rik's Weblog is a personal blog at huijzer.xyz about programming, ai and politics. Since 2021, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 47 times, most often “Optimizing Julia Code”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked posts cover a recommendations post, a thesis set in Typst, the health effects of electromagnetic radiation, and printing a book at home. Comments are mostly bare links or fixes to broken links.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
My blog containing posts about open source software, statistics, history, and related topics
Most-linked posts?
- Optimizing Julia Code2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-03-20
- Why I still recommend Julia2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-26
- Raspberry Pi as Forgejo Runner2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-23
- The Health Effects of Electromagnetic Radiation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-11
- Printing a Book at Home with Minimal Equipment2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-29
What Hacker News says?
Yep that's also my experience. Except HN because it does not use *** Cloudflare because it knows it is not necessary. I just wrote a blog titled "Do Not Put Your Site Behind Cloudflare if You Don't Need To" [1]. [1]: https://huijzer.xyz/posts/123/
Comment linking /posts/123/
on “Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues”Submitted Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to as a story · 481 points
HN discussion> but I do admit Forgejo looks very interesting to self-host. I've been self-hosting it for a few years now and can definitely recommend. It has been very reliable. I even have a runner running. Full tutorial at https://huijzer.xyz/posts/55/installing-forgejo-with-a-separ... .
Comment linking /posts/55/installing-forgejo-with-a-separate-runner
on “Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service”Submitted Why I still recommend Julia as a story · 219 points
HN discussionIt’s the same now. I’ve spent arguably too much time trying to avoid Python and it has cost me a whole lot of time. You keep running into bugs and have to implement much more yourself if you go off the beaten path (see also [1]). I don’t regret it since I learned a lot, but it’s definitively not always the easiest path. To this day I wonder whether maybe I should have taken the simple route. [1]: https://huijzer.xyz…
Comment linking /posts/killer-domain/
on “Migrating away from Rust”Submitted Companies are lying about AI layoffs? as a story · 199 points
HN discussionHence why I wrote a post on 18th of Nov (previous Cloudflare outage): https://huijzer.xyz/posts/123/do-not-put-your-site-behind-cl... . That blog post made it to the front page of HN and my site did not go down. Nor did any DDoS network take the site out even though I also challenged them last time by commenting that I would be okay with a DDoS. I would figure out a way around it. In general, marketing often works v…
Comment linking /posts/123/do-not-put-your-site-behind-cloudflare-if-you-dont-need-to
on “Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down”Submitted Every programming language has its 'killer' domain as a story · 34 points
HN discussionI did similar things last year [1]. Also I tried running arbitrary binaries and that worked too. You could even run them in the GPTs. It was okay back then but not super reliable. I should try again because the newer models definitively follow prompts better from what I’ve seen. [1]: https://huijzer.xyz/posts/openai-gpts/
Comment linking /posts/openai-gpts/
on “Reverse engineering OpenAI code execution to make it run C and JavaScript”Submitted Printing a Book at Home with Minimal Equipment as a story · 13 points
HN discussionProbably a good idea to explicitly pin GitHub Actions to commit hashes as I wrote about a few days ago: https://huijzer.xyz/posts/jas/ Also put as much as possible in bash or justfile instead of inside the yaml. It avoids vendor lock-in and makes local debugging easier.
Comment linking /posts/jas/
on “Any program can be a GitHub Actions shell”Submitted Google Shenanigans as a story · 10 points
HN discussionhttps://huijzer.xyz/posts/recommend/
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on “Julia 1.8”Submitted Done with GitHub Actions Supply Chain Attacks as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> Uploading Binaries and execute them Agreed! It's seriously overlooked right now. I threw in typst (a document formatter like LaTeX) and was surprised that it worked [1]. Startup times for the sandbox are a bit slow though with about 8-10 seconds startup time. I also saw that they just added a beta for mentioning custom GPTs with `@`. I really hope these things will move forward more. It shows that there is still a…
Comment linking /posts/openai-gpts/
on “Why Custom GPTs are better than plugins”Submitted Optimizing Julia Code as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI just finished a blog post with some thoughts on AI’s future [1] and the surprising conclusion was that most big tech companies probably have much bigger problems than whether researchers leave or not. As Taleb and DeepSeek’s CEO point out, usually when you have a disruptive technology, then the incumbents will be left behind. Cursor AI and DeepSeek are a sign of new players coming out of nowhere and beating the in…
Comment linking /posts/ai-learning-rate/
on “Meta in talks to reincorporate in Texas or another state, WSJ reports”Submitted We Are in a Speculative Bubble as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAnyone here who knows how much of this can be handled by an intermediary like CloudFlare? Setting it up with Google auth took me only 30 minutes or so for static pages (details at https://huijzer.xyz/posts/static-site-auth/ ), but I have no idea how good it would be for securing a service in production.
Comment linking /posts/static-site-auth/
on “The many problems with implementing Single Sign-On”Submitted The Social Media Good, Bad, and Ugly as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://huijzer.xyz
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted "Let's get real about free speech" as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI just bought a Raspberry Pi 4 1 GB memory with aluminum case, aluminum NVME adapter, and a 64 GB SSD for about 80 euros. With microsd it’s even cheaper. 4 GB RAM would be about 120 euros. The 1 GB RAM replaces one Forgejo runner that was in Hetzner. With €5 per month, I will earn this investment back in less than two years. After the price increase, this period will only shorten! I also wrote about this at https://…
Comment linking /posts/148/raspberry-pi-as-forgejo-runner
on “Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38%”Submitted How Effective Is Russian Subversion? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionDidn't see a pdf of your thesis, except on your web-site[1]. But the version there (at least as it renders on my machine), has a lot of formatting issues. For one egregious example, look at the letter spacing in the title and legend of Figure 2.2 (page 27): "civilia ns", "Pe rs ona lity s core". I'm sure the content is great, but using it as an example of Typst prowess, seems ill-advised. [1] https://huijzer.xyz/fil…
Comment linking /files/f72fa09561f20162.pdf
on “RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust”Submitted Why I wrote the fx web server as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI have moved to self-host Forgejo a few years ago and I can also highly recommend. It's working great. I have posted a tutorial [1] (verified last month that it still works), and recently moved from Hetzner to 2 Raspberry Pi's for hosting the server and the runner [2]. It's great. Really rock solid. Has been more reliable and faster than GitHub. [1]: https://huijzer.xyz/posts/55/installing-forgejo-with-a-separ... [2…
Comment linking /posts/55/installing-forgejo-with-a-separate-runner
on “Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people”Submitted The Health Effects of Electromagnetic Radiation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIn most cases, I just add a blog post for such things. For example, Syncthing on Debian notes [1] or using Spleeter AI to remove background sound from a long audio track [2]. This is why I switched back from static site to a Wordpress-like site [3], so that I can quickly publish notes from my phone. [1]: https://huijzer.xyz/posts/149/setup-a-syncthing-service-on-d... [2]: https://huijzer.xyz/posts/146/installing-and…
Comment linking /posts/146/installing-and-running-spleeter-to-separate-audio-
on “How to Record and Retrieve Anything You've Ever Had to Look Up Twice”Submitted Old Books vs. Modern Books as a story · 2 points
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