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Personal blog · thomassimon.dev/psprogrammingweb

Thomas Simon writes Thomas SIMON, a personal blog at thomassimon.dev about programming and web. Since 2023, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Blog Uses JavaScript”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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6mentions?
4HN people?
2023–2023first – last linked?

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

Why HN links it

Thomas Simon's post 'Building an Economy Simulator from Scratch' describes how the author built a small economy simulation. The one comment asks whether the source code is available, since the posted code is minified.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Blog Uses JavaScript
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-15

What Hacker News says?

  1. Is the source code for this simulator available anywhere? The post's code itself is minimized/obfuscated: https://thomassimon.dev/assets/cashloss.1fca21f6.js I couldn't find anything on the author's GitHub. I'm mostly just curious how it's built.

    Comment linking /assets/cashloss.1fca21f6.js

    on “Building an Economy Simulator from Scratch”
  2. Submitted The flat OS kernel utopia as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted A 40 lines app needs 40 files as a story · 3 points

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  4. Submitted Building an Economy Simulator from Scratch as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Blog Uses JavaScript as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted This Blog Uses JavaScript as a story · 1 points

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