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River Gillis

Personal blog · river.codes · on HN as rivergprogrammingsystems

River Gillis's personal blog at river.codes covers programming and systems. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Emulating a Computer: The Chip-8 Interpreter”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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7mentions?
3HN people?
2019–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2020

This is my personal blog.

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riverg · 10 karma · member since 2019

https://river.codes/

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Emulating a Computer: The Chip-8 Interpreter
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-12-06

What Hacker News says?

  1. I wrote up a series [0] documenting a CHIP-8 emulator I wrote that I hope explains how to get something like this working from the ground up, albeit for a much simpler system. [0] https://river.codes/emulating-a-computer-part-1/

    Comment linking /emulating-a-computer-part-1/

    on “Yuzu (Nintendo Switch Emulator) Progress Report January 2021”
  2. Submitted Demystifying malloc as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Emulating a Computer: Images and Rendering as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Emulating a Computer: The Chip-8 Interpreter as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Emulating a Computer: The CHIP-8 Interpreter as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Emulating a Computer: The Chip-8 Interpreter as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Show HN: Enter Name, Become Domain as a story · 1 points

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