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Validark's Blog

Personal blog · validark.dev/postsprogrammingsystems

Validark's Blog is a personal blog at validark.dev about programming and systems. Since 2025, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Deus Lex Machina: releasing a new compacting Zig tokenizer”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-04-16, and you can follow it by feed.

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5mentions?
4HN people?
2025–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2025

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

Why HN links it

Commenters share this as a personal website, mainly to show the author is a real person with public videos under their own name. No comment discusses the writing, so the posts' subjects aren't shown here.

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.

Posts - Validark's Blog

Most-linked posts?

  1. Deus Lex Machina: releasing a new compacting Zig tokenizer
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-04-19

What Hacker News says?

  1. https://validark.dev

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”
  2. Submitted Deus Lex Machina: releasing a new compacting Zig tokenizer as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  3. Hey, I'm a real person. Here's my website. I have YouTube videos up with my real name and face. https://validark.dev

    Comment linking /

    on “Epoch confirms GPT5.4 Pro solved a Frontier Math Open Problem for the first time”
  4. Submitted Deus Lex Machina: releasing a new compacting Zig tokenizer as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Deus Lex Machina as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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