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A Nickel's Worth

Personal blog · a-nickels-worth.dev/postssystemsprogramming

A Nickel's Worth is a personal blog at a-nickels-worth.dev about systems and programming. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Modes Considered Harmful”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2021–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2021

Programming, distributed computing

Most-linked posts?

  1. Modes Considered Harmful
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-13

What Hacker News says?

  1. fanf2 · 2024-10-01

    Submitted Modes Considered Harmful as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  2. panic · 2021-01-04

    Submitted Operatingsystemlessness as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. greyface- · 2022-10-13

    Submitted Modes Considered Harmful (2006) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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