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Samson Machete

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Samson Machete's personal blog at nalaginrut.com covers programming. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 30 times, most often “Recon the Hydra Cave: a development note of Rust on GCC (part 1)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-23, and you can follow it by feed.

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30mentions?
5HN people?
2014–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2015

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this for a preview of Guile-Lua, a Lua implementation on Guile, along with the author's opinions. Only one commenter discusses it, asking why Lua 5.2 was chosen and objecting to a change made under ISSUE-1.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Recon the Hydra Cave: a development note of Rust on GCC (part 1)
    2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-04-28
  2. Hurd, SeL4, Thoughts
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-12-11

What Hacker News says?

  1. catwell · 2016-09-05
    The link shows a blank page for me (Firefox, Arch Linux). I can read the article on the home page ( https://nalaginrut.com ). It is interesting that you chose to implement Lua 5.2. Why choose 5.2 over 5.3 (the most recent version) or 5.1 (probably still the most used)? As a Lua developer I really don't like what you did with ISSUE-1. In particular there could be some code that calls `foo()` explicitly on another obj…

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    on “A preview of Guile-Lua (rebirth), and some opinions”
  2. nalaginrut · 2025-11-02

    Submitted Hashtable vs. A-list in Scheme, which to choose? as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  3. nalaginrut · 2016-09-05

    Submitted A preview of Guile-Lua (rebirth), and some opinions as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  4. nalaginrut · 2015-01-29

    Submitted [ANN] GNU Artanis 0.0.2 released [alpha] as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  5. dragonsh · 2021-09-14

    Submitted Scheme language is good enough for products as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  6. nalaginrut · 2024-09-11

    Submitted Cloud Computing's Hidden Hero: The Untold Story of OpenBMC as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  7. nalaginrut · 2019-12-11

    Submitted Hurd, SeL4, Thoughts as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  8. dragonsh · 2020-09-26

    Submitted Recon the Hydra Cave: a development note of Rust on GCC (part 1) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. nalaginrut · 2019-12-25

    Submitted What's New in GNU Artanis 0.4.1 as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. nalaginrut · 2015-09-16

    Submitted Actor-Model: a revealed black box in Scheme as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. nalaginrut · 2021-02-16

    Submitted GNU Artanis-0.5 is ready for Docker as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. nalaginrut · 2021-02-14

    Submitted What's news in GNU Artanis-0.5? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. dragonsh · 2020-09-27

    Submitted Recon the Hydra Cave: a development note of Rust on GCC (part 1) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. nalaginrut · 2019-10-17

    Submitted What's New in GNU Artanis 0.4 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. nalaginrut · 2019-09-18

    Submitted Install GNU Artanis with Docker as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. nalaginrut · 2015-03-02

    Submitted [ANN] GNU Artanis 0.0.3 released [alpha] as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. nalaginrut · 2015-01-01

    Submitted New Scheme web-framework Artanis-0.0.1 released as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. nalaginrut · 2014-04-25

    Submitted Write your code in pipeline style as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. nalaginrut · 2024-09-06

    Submitted People who are serious about AI should have their own datacenter as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. pmoriarty · 2023-03-16

    Submitted Use ChatGPT for compiler error regeneration as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. dragonsh · 2021-09-20

    Submitted Scheme language is good enough for products as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. todsacerdoti · 2020-10-09

    Submitted Hurd, SeL4, Thoughts as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. dragonsh · 2020-09-30

    Submitted Recon the Hydra Cave: a development note of Rust on GCC (part 1) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. nalaginrut · 2020-04-28

    Submitted Recon the Hydra Cave: a development note of Rust on GCC (part 1) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. nalaginrut · 2019-10-31

    Submitted 8 Essential patterns you should know about functional programming in C++14 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. nalaginrut · 2015-03-27

    Submitted Do some quick and dirty with Guile FFI as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. nalaginrut · 2015-02-28

    Submitted Simple solution to mkdir a tree as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  28. nalaginrut · 2014-06-30

    Submitted Uroboros: The power of high order function as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  29. nalaginrut · 2014-04-15

    Submitted Simple, but not so simple as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  30. nalaginrut · 2014-03-27

    Submitted How to write shit with you elegant Scheme language as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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