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A Gnu in the Savannah

Personal blog · gnu.wildebeest.org/blog/mjwsystemsprogramming

A Gnu in the Savannah is a personal blog at gnu.wildebeest.org about systems and programming. Since 2016, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Looking forward to GCC6 – Many new warnings”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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15mentions?
13HN people?
2016–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2016

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

Why HN links it

Linked for posts on tracing and debugging tools: user-space tracing on Linux, DTrace-style tracing, and Valgrind and sourceware toolchain work. Comments are mostly bare links or questions.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Looking forward to GCC6 – Many new warnings
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-02-15
  2. Dtrace for Linux
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-02-14
  3. Sourceware – GNU Toolchain Infrastructure Roadmap
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-23

What Hacker News says?

  1. cthalupa · 2016-05-02
    https://lwn.net/Articles/499190/ & https://gnu.wildebeest.org/blog/mjw/2012/05/24/pull-user-spa... http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2015-06-28/linux-ftrace-upr...

    Comment linking /blog/mjw/2012/05/24/pull-user-space-probe-instrumentation/

    on “Google XRay: A Function Call Tracing System [pdf]”
  2. espadrine · 2018-02-14

    Submitted Dtrace for Linux as a story · 354 points

    HN discussion
  3. KindOne · 2018-08-27
    What about this? Does this change anything? https://gnu.wildebeest.org/blog/mjw/2018/02/14/dtrace-for-li...

    Comment linking /blog/mjw/2018/02/14/dtrace-for-linux-oracle-does-the-right-thing/

    on “A little bit of the one-time MacOS version still lingers in ZFS”
  4. pabs3 · 2022-06-23

    Submitted Sourceware – GNU Toolchain Infrastructure Roadmap as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  5. rurban · 2023-05-05
    I do keep a daily sync with my ryzen sha_ni patches here: https://github.com/rurban/valgrind but it's discussed here: https://gnu.wildebeest.org/~mark/fsf-sourceware/sourceware-i... their CI has much more and better architecture support than github, hence gcc, gdb, binutils, valgrind are there. but the sourceware tools are ancient.

    Comment linking /~mark/fsf-sourceware/sourceware-infra.md

    on “Valgrind 3.21 Is Out”
  6. pabs3 · 2025-04-25

    Submitted Copyleft makes the (Java) world turn around (2016) as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. pwg · 2016-02-16

    Submitted Looking forward to GCC6 – Many new warnings as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  8. severine · 2022-06-23

    Submitted Sourceware – GNU Toolchain Infrastructure Roadmap as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. znpy · 2024-01-23

    Submitted Dtrace for Linux; Oracle does the right thing (2018) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. pabs3 · 2022-10-25

    Submitted Valgrind 3.20.0 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. edelsohn · 2019-12-02

    Submitted Mark Wielaard: A public discussion about GNU governance as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. vmorgulis · 2016-01-27

    Submitted ELF, libelf, compressed sections and elfutils as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. ashitlerferad · 2016-05-27

    Submitted Java is Fair Game as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. ingve · 2016-02-17

    Submitted Looking forward to GCC6 – Many new warnings as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. crncosta · 2016-02-15

    Submitted LOOKING FORWARD TO GCC6 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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