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Roberto Vaccari

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Roberto Vaccari's personal blog at robertovaccari.com covers programming and games. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Steganography: Decoding Pico-8 Cartridges”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2021–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2021

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for its post on hiding one image inside another (steganography), using PICO-8 game cartridges stored in a small PNG as the example. Only one comment, which links it without judging 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.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Steganography: Decoding Pico-8 Cartridges
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-05-19

What Hacker News says?

  1. This is how PICO-8 game cartridges are contained in a small PNG of the game itself! https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php https://robertovaccari.com/blog/2021_01_03_stegano_pico8/

    Comment linking /blog/2021_01_03_stegano_pico8/

    on “Hide a photo inside another photo”
  2. Submitted A journey into GameBoy emulation (2020) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Steganography: Decoding Pico-8 Cartridges as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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