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Rufflewind's Scratchpad

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Rufflewind's Scratchpad is a personal blog at rufflewind.com about programming and math. Since 2017, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Graphical depiction of ownership and borrowing in Rust”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.

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9mentions?
8HN people?
2017–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2017

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Rufflewind's Scratchpad for its 2017 post on Rust move, copy and borrow semantics. Commenters offer it as a help for people learning Rust ownership, and as an example of diagram-based explanation.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Graphical depiction of ownership and borrowing in Rust
    5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2017-02-16

What Hacker News says?

  1. Ygg2 · 2017-02-16Recommends
    Here is something, that might ease things: https://rufflewind.com/2017-02-15/rust-move-copy-borrow

    Comment linking /2017-02-15/rust-move-copy-borrow

    on “Next Iteration of “The Rust Programming Language” Book”
  2. Submitted Graphical depiction of ownership and borrowing in Rust as a story · 45 points

    HN discussion
  3. I think for some of it you could be nide to do diagrams, e.g. something like this: https://rufflewind.com/2017-02-15/rust-move-copy-borrow

    Comment linking /2017-02-15/rust-move-copy-borrow

    on “Getting Past “Ampersand-Driven Development” in Rust”
  4. Submitted Graphical depiction of ownership and borrowing in Rust as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Graphical depiction of ownership and borrowing in Rust as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Reverse-mode automatic differentiation as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Graphical depiction of ownership and borrowing in Rust as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Graphical depiction of ownership and borrowing in Rust as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Introduction to compiled libraries as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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