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Personal blog · xnacly.me/posts · on HN as xnaclyprogrammingsystems

xnacly is a personal blog at xnacly.me about programming and systems. Since 2022, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 89 times, most often “Porting a Segmented List from C to Rust”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-10, and you can follow it by feed.

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89mentions?
11HN people?
2022–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 35 in 2026

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The comments mention only the site's red Google banner, a Linux power-user guide that has moved, and a complaint about another blog's navigation. None judge the writing. The linked posts appear to cover a Google acquisition and Linux tips.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

A blog all around tech, programming and whatever im currently interested in

The author on HN?

xnacly · 562 karma · member since 2022

website: xnacly.me “Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.” ~ Edward Snowden

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

Most-linked posts?

  1. Porting a Segmented List from C to Rust
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-10-16
  2. Rust for tokenising and parsing
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-11-05
  3. Lexical Analysis of Markdown in Go
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-04-09
  4. Inserting 100k rows 66 times faster
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-20
  5. Leetcode Optimization and Go
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-11
  6. Optimizing a Go Package by 38147125738.8x
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-11-19
  7. Revisiting and Optimising go-iso8601-duration
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-10
  8. The Manchester Garbage Collector and purple-garden's runtime
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-07
  9. RSA and Python
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-19
  10. Poking holes into bytecode with peephole optimisations
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-14

What Hacker News says?

  1. I wrote a similar blog post a while ago using python [1]. I however attacked RSA using prime number factorization. [1]: https://xnacly.me/posts/2023/rsa/

    Comment linking /posts/2023/rsa/

    on “RSA is deceptively simple and fun”
  2. Submitted Rust for tokenising and parsing as a story · 285 points

    HN discussion
  3. First and foremost, remove that red "Google is actively hurting the open web with its browser chromium" banner from your personal website[1]. [1] https://xnacly.me/

    Comment linking /

    on “What I learned getting acquired by Google”
  4. Submitted Strategies for Fast Lexers as a story · 180 points

    HN discussion
  5. A little late to the party but heres mine: https://xnacly.me Its a simple hugo generated static site with my own theme.

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Share Your Personal Site”
  6. Submitted Fun with Go Iterators as a story · 161 points

    HN discussion
  7. https://xnacly.me/ I really enjoy writing especially to work on my english and how i express my thoughts. I try to write at least one post a month but im usually pretty busy with work. My top 3 favorite posts are: linux guide for powerusers https://xnacly.me/posts/2022/linux-for-powerusers/ Rsa and python https://xnacly.me/posts/2023/rsa/ Lexical analysis of Markdown in Go https://xnacly.me/posts/2023/lexer-markdown/

    Comment linking /posts/2023/lexer-markdown/

    on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”
  8. Submitted Abusing C to implement JSON parsing with struct methods as a story · 118 points

    HN discussion
  9. - bro you really need to ramp the ux of your blog - i just wanted to take a quick glance at all the posts to see if anything catches my eye - https://unsung.aresluna.org/all - https://unsung.aresluna.org/archive - https://unsung.aresluna.org/archives - https://unsung.aresluna.org/posts - https://unsung.aresluna.org/blog - none of the above links work, a lot of dudes sharing blogs on HN absolutely do not check if the…

    Comment linking /posts/

    on “Lock Scroll with a Vengeance”
  10. Submitted Building a Minimal Viable Armv7 Emulator from Scratch as a story · 75 points

    HN discussion
  11. The page appears to have moved to https://xnacly.me/posts/2022/linux-for-powerusers/

    Comment linking /posts/2022/linux-for-powerusers/

    on “Linux guide for aspiring power users”
  12. Submitted Embedding Lua in Sqleibniz with Rust as a story · 59 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Highlighting Parts of Lua as Bash as a story · 22 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Why I love Rust for tokenising and parsing as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Porting a Segmented List from C to Rust as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Rethinking How I Deal With CLI Arguments (replacing getopt) as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted I love Rust for tokenising and parsing as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Inserting 100k rows 66 times faster as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Calling Go Functions from C++ as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Linux Guide for Power Users as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Porting a Segmented List from C to Rust as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Handrolling ISO8601 Duration Support for Go as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Making libjson RFC 8259 compilant as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted How to optimize websites for fast loading and slow network speeds as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted How to periodically sync a Git repository with its remote as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted Porting a Segmented List from C to Rust as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Go: Where Are Slice.Flatten and Slice.Map as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Optimizing libjson, or: beating encoding/JSON by at least 2.5x as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted HashMap in 25 Lines of C as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted Interpreter spill stack on the process stack and trait as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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