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Vladimir Varankin

Personal blog · vladimir.varank.in/notes · on HN as varankinvprogrammingsystems

Vladimir Varankin's personal blog at vladimir.varank.in covers programming and systems. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook. AI build one for me”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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13mentions?
5HN people?
2020–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2026

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

Why HN links it

HN readers cite this blog's FreeBSD brcmfmac note as an example of coding agents writing working device drivers, and one commenter says it is how they found the Pi coding agent.

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.

The author on HN?

varankinv · 260 karma · member since 2018

https://vladimir.varank.in/

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook. AI build one for me
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-02-23
  2. My real life use-case for generics in Go: API for client-side pagination
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-05-17
  3. Client-side pagination in Go (1.22 range-over function edition)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-29

What Hacker News says?

  1. mgoetzke · 2026-02-24
    I only discovered PI after reading https://vladimir.varank.in/notes/2026/02/freebsd-brcmfmac/ .. and its the first coding agent that makes using local llms and switching to commercial options really fast and well behaved. Still testing it, but I have to say so far I am extremely impressed.

    Comment linking /notes/2026/02/freebsd-brcmfmac/

    on “Pi.dev: There are many coding agents, but this one is mine”
  2. varankinv · 2021-04-26

    Submitted Wireless-to-Ethernet island for RPi cluster: IPv6, NDP proxy, mDNS reflector as a story · 88 points

    HN discussion
  3. reverius42 · 2026-03-24
    Claude Code or OpenAI Codex can even write working device drivers for your hardware these days. https://vladimir.varank.in/notes/2026/02/freebsd-brcmfmac/

    Comment linking /notes/2026/02/freebsd-brcmfmac/

    on “Scott Hanselman says he's working on Windows local accounts”
  4. varankinv · 2022-05-17

    Submitted My real life use-case for generics in Go: API for client-side pagination as a story · 46 points

    HN discussion
  5. varankinv · 2026-02-23

    Submitted FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook. AI build one for me as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  6. varankinv · 2024-01-29

    Submitted Client-side pagination in Go (1.22 range-over function edition) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. varankinv · 2023-09-29

    Submitted Compile-time safety for enumerations in Go as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. varankinv · 2021-09-27

    Submitted Making sense of requests for CPU resources in Kubernetes as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. nnx · 2024-02-08

    Submitted Client-side pagination in Go (range-over function edition) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. varankinv · 2023-01-12

    Submitted Go Runtime vs. CFS Quota as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. ArdelleF · 2022-05-18

    Submitted A real life use-case for generics in Go: API for client-side pagination as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. varankinv · 2020-03-30

    Submitted Retrieve Location of macOS Device from Go as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. varankinv · 2020-01-27

    Submitted Building Multi-Platform Docker Images with Travis CI and BuildKit as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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