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Tim White
Personal blog · notoriousbfg.com · on HN as trwhiteprogrammingcareer
Tim White writes tim's blog, a personal blog at notoriousbfg.com about programming and career. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 35 times, most often “Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread about Scorched Planets, a space game with planetary gravity. One commenter points to the author's post on Hole Punch, a game about slinging a spaceship around gravitational fields.
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.
The personal blog of Tim White, Software Engineer from Somerset, UK.
Most-linked posts?
- Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-03
What Hacker News says?
I've written about this and some of the ideas being discussed here. Essays that I'm reasonably proud of: https://notoriousbfg.com/building-software-sharing-knowledge https://notoriousbfg.com/code-and-context TLDR: I don't think that poorly written code is as common as devs like to thing it is. Context is just as important in our general perception of how well some code has been written/designed. There are several wa…
Comment linking /code-and-context
on “Who wrote this shit?”Submitted Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields as a story · 373 points
HN discussionhttp://notoriousbfg.com
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted My Recent Woodworking Projects as a story · 45 points
HN discussionI had too much physics in my life so my brain is screaming " Is energy and angular momentum conserved here??? ". I'm not sure if I'm a typical user :) What I dislike about influence areas is that sometimes small changes in the direction or speed makes big changes in the trajectory. You may enjoy looking at another recent game " Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields " https://notoriousbfg.com/h…
Comment linking /hole-punch/
on “Scorched Planets: "Scorched Earth" but in space with planetary gravity effects”Submitted Code Age vs. Time to Recall as a story · 30 points
HN discussionhttps://notoriousbfg.com Some of my favourite posts: Building Software, Sharing Knowledge https://notoriousbfg.com/building-software-sharing-knowledge... Code and Context https://notoriousbfg.com/code-and-context/ Some Quality Biases https://notoriousbfg.com/some-quality-biases/
Comment linking /some-quality-biases/
on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted There is no substitute for hard work as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why do people drop litter? as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted A network-less world as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Feel like everything is so boring lately? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tell People Something New as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted No Smoking Gun as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Constraint Breeds Creativity as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted People Were Always Shitty as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Time and Regret as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We're not family and that's okay as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Success Is Relative (Updated) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Impact of Culture as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Substance in an Increasingly Superficial World as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Guardian Angel, a Short Story as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I wrote a program to help me make better fantasy football decisions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Resonance and Inspiration as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Embracing the Heterodox as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some Quality Biases as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hacker News: Send me your PHP/Laravel questions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Code and Context as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Code and Context as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Side Project Zen as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Illusion of Technology as a story · 1 points
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