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Stewart C. Russell

Personal blog · scruss.com/bloghardwareprogramming

Stewart C. Russell writes We Saw a Chicken …, a personal blog at scruss.com about hardware and programming. Since 2013, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “The Raspberry Pi’s Hardware Random Number Generator”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-19, and you can follow it by feed.

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11mentions?
9HN people?
2013–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2021

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

Why HN links it

Stewart C. Russell's blog, of which one 2013 post is linked as an example in a thread on the Infinite Noise true random number generator. The comment does not say what the post argues.

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.

Stewart C. Russell's home page.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The Raspberry Pi’s Hardware Random Number Generator
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-07-17

What Hacker News says?

  1. bigiain · 2015-02-01
    Some do: http://scruss.com/blog/2013/06/07/well-that-was-unexpected-t...

    Comment linking /blog/2013/06/07/well-that-was-unexpected-the-raspberry-pis-hardware-random-number-generator/

    on “Infinite Noise true random number generator”
  2. DanBC · 2013-07-17

    Submitted The Raspberry Pi’s Hardware Random Number Generator as a story · 136 points

    HN discussion
  3. rbanffy · 2021-04-30

    Submitted Pen plotters: not just output devices (2016) as a story · 91 points

    HN discussion
  4. app4soft · 2020-02-17

    Submitted FreeCAD on Raspberry Pi 4 as a story · 91 points

    HN discussion
  5. slater · 2018-10-09

    Submitted 𒐳 / ༳ == ( ⑽ – 𐹭 ) * ( 𒐲 / 𐅉 ), of course as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  6. muunbo · 2022-08-10

    Submitted INA219 Current Sensor and MicroPython as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. DanBC · 2013-01-26

    Submitted The Quite Rubbish Clock - QR Code clock on Raspberry PI as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. rbanffy · 2026-06-15

    Submitted New Font: Nic7pin as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. sehugg · 2026-05-20

    Submitted The Broken Basic Years as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. _Microft · 2021-05-06

    Submitted Book: Fortran techniques with special reference to non-numerical appl. (1972) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. pabs3 · 2021-03-24

    Submitted Synthesizing Simple Chords with SoX as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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