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Hans Wennborg
hanshq.net · Personal blog · on HN since 2015
Hans Wennborg, a Google engineer who works on LLVM and Chromium, writes detailed technical articles on low-level programming.
What HN saysHN links it for in-depth posts on Zip files, big-endian testing with QEMU, Android command-line builds, and an Othello implementation. Commenters also mention the e-prime ad.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Zip Files: History, Explanation and Implementation7 people · 165 points · first shared 2020 · 18 comments on HN
- 2The Old-School Fire Effect and Bare-Metal Programming5 people · 161 points · first shared 2017 · 27 comments on HN
- 3Shrink, Reduce, and Implode: The Legacy Zip Compression Methods5 people · 54 points · first shared 2021 · 1 comments on HN
- 4Othello for Desktop, Mobile and Web: An AI and GUI Exercise5 people · 19 points · first shared 2017 · 1 comments on HN
- 5Ones and Zeros, Part 2: Making Executable Files4 people · 9 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 6Finding the First 10-digit Prime in Digits of e (2017)3 people · 47 points · first shared 2017 · 5 comments on HN
- 7Building an Android App from the Command Line3 people · 7 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 8Big-Endian Testing with QEMU3 people · 4 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 9Programming with Ones and Zeros2 people · 64 points · first shared 2015 · 8 comments on HN
- 10A Bigint Calculator in C2 people · 4 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 11Perl One-Liners of the Month2 people · 2 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 12Nibble Sort1 people · 118 points · first shared 2015 · 14 comments on HN
- 13Roman Numeral Conversion in LibreOffice, WebKit, Firefox, and TeX1 people · 1 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
zmodem · 2024-04-22
I think it's a Bay Area thing.
Google's {First 10-digit Prime in Consecutive Digits of e}.com ad is a classic in this genre (https://www.hanshq.net/eprime.html)
cpeterso · 2026-04-06
A post about big-endian testing with QEMU was posted on HN just a few days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47626462
https://www.hanshq.net/big-endian-qemu.html
delhanty · 2021-07-23
Another Zip article from early 2020 - historical but also covers quite a lot of technical ground:
Zip Files: History, Explanation and Implementation
Hans Wennborg
https://www.hanshq.net/zip.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22506451
bla3 · 2020-05-10
Here's how to do this if you also want to have parts in Java: https://www.hanshq.net/command-line-android.html
Tepix · 2019-10-28
Check out the Othello implementation by Hans Wennborg with a bitboard at https://www.hanshq.net/othello.html
xabi · 2018-12-29
This effect was first developed by @thejare in 1993.
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=15071
Old discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15828773
More info here:
http://www.iguanademos.com/Jare/wp/?p=2756
https://www.hanshq.net/fire.html
https://www.gamedev.net/articles/programming/graphics/simple-fire-effe…