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Ryan Keane
Personal blog · ryanjk5.github.io/postsprogramminggames
Ryan Keane's personal blog at ryanjk5.github.io covers programming and games. Since 2026, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Simulating Infinity in Conway's Game of Life with Modern C++”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on simulating Conway's Game of Life in modern C++, including an effectively infinite grid. The only comment is a nit that the torus GIF does not wrap left and right edges as a conventional torus would.
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?
- Simulating Infinity in Conway's Game of Life with Modern C++2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-18
What Hacker News says?
Small nit, this - https://ryanjk5.github.io/assets/2026-05-14-GOLDE/torus.gif - is not what's conventionally referred to as a torus in CGoL. In torus left and right edges are also connected.
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on “Simulating Infinity in Conway's Game of Life with Modern C++”Submitted Beautiful Type Erasure with C++26 Reflection as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simulating Infinity in Conway's Game of Life with Modern C++ as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simulating Infinity in Conway's Game of Life with Modern C++ as a story · 1 points
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