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Ryan Levick

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Ryan Levick writes You Learn Something New Everyday 💭, a personal blog at blog.ryanlevick.com about programming and systems. Since 2018, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Rust 2020”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.

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2018–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2019

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link Ryan Levick's DMG-01 guide to emulating a Game Boy in Rust, along with his RustFest talk on building one, as a reference for writing emulators.

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. Rust 2020
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-12-17

What Hacker News says?

  1. And here is a video [1] and free to read online book [2] that someone else made about implementing a Game Boy emulator in Rust. [1]: RustFest Rome 2018 - Ryan Levick: Oh Boy! Creating a Game Boy Emulator in Rust - https://youtu.be/B7seNuQncvU [2]: DMG-01: How to Emulate a Game Boy - http://blog.ryanlevick.com/DMG-01/

    Comment linking /DMG-01/

    on “Implementing a NES Emulator in Rust”
  2. Submitted Sudoku Solver and Generator as a story · 23 points

    HN discussion
  3. That post doesn't have any concrete promises about what stability actually means. Furthermore I don't see that in practice. To be able to say you're stable you have to have a spec and stick to it over a number of years. Is there one? Unit tests in rustc don't count because contributors just regularly delete or change those. I still see statements coming out from other contributors describing regular regressions and…

    Comment linking /rust-2020/

    on “Buffer overflow when pwfeedback is set in sudoers”
  4. Submitted Rust 2020 as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Down the Stack: Compiled Rust. Learning about x86-64 Assembly with Rust as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted DMG – 01: How to Emulate a Game Boy (In Rust) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Rust WebAssembly 2019 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Exploring Fonts and Font Rasterization as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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