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Russell Power
Personal blog · rjp.io/blogprogrammingsystems
Russell Power writes Idle Thoughts, a personal blog at rjp.io about programming and systems. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “The unreasonable effectiveness of fuzzing for porting programs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked post covers using fuzzing to port programs, with a link to a session log of a Claude-assisted Rust port. The only comment is a note that one of the links is broken.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- The unreasonable effectiveness of fuzzing for porting programs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-18
What Hacker News says?
Author FYI: The "You can see the session log here." link to [1] is broken. [1]: https://rjp.io/blog/claude-rust-port-conversation
Comment linking /blog/claude-rust-port-conversation
on “The unreasonable effectiveness of fuzzing for porting programs”Submitted The unreasonable effectiveness of fuzzing for porting programs as a story · 238 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stepping Back as a story · 178 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reflections on Sudoku, or the Impossibility of Systematizing Thought as a story · 100 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Fuzzing for Porting Programs as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted Playing Doom in 2025, Or, Sculpture from Clay as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted Slackmail – An email to Slack proxy as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Register deprivation: spills and runtime under forced register scarcity as a story · 1 points
HN discussion