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Adam Furmanek
Personal blog · blog.adamfurmanek.plprogrammingsystems
Adam Furmanek writes Random IT Utensils, a personal blog at blog.adamfurmanek.pl about programming and systems. Since 2017, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Custom memory allocation in C# Part 1 – Allocating object on a stack (2016)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Adam Furmanek's posts on .NET and Windows internals, such as running C# from PowerShell or SQL Server, custom memory allocation and named pipes. One commenter points to his pipes series.
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?
- Custom memory allocation in C# Part 1 – Allocating object on a stack (2016)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-01-11
What Hacker News says?
Executing C# in Powershell: https://blog.adamfurmanek.pl/2016/03/19/executing-c-code-usi... Executing C# in SQL Server: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/language-extensions/ho... An anecdote: about 7 years ago I made an postal code lookup function for SQL server, that would parse a csv from the danish postal services, that was retrieved from a HTTP GET in T-SQL, then parsed with C# to get the city from a postal…
Comment linking /2016/03/19/executing-c-code-using-powershell-script/index.html
on “Jeffrey Snover and the Making of PowerShell”Submitted .Net Internals Cookbook Part 1 – Exceptions, Filters and Corrupted Processes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou might like this series https://blog.adamfurmanek.pl/2016/04/23/custom-memory-alloca...
Comment linking /2016/04/23/custom-memory-allocation-in-c-part-1/
on “Not your grandad’s .NET: Pipes, Part 1”Submitted Custom memory allocation in C# Part 1 – Allocating object on a stack (2016) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionJust throwing some random ideas out... TCP over file tunnel? https://labs.withsecure.com/tools/tcp-over-file-tunnel or the similar https://blog.adamfurmanek.pl/2022/11/12/availability-anywher... Or maybe establish a named pipe ( https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/ipc/named-pi... ) on the Windows host, and try to access and proxy through it on the guest? ( https://shvechkov.tripod.com/nptp.html ) Never t…
Comment linking /2022/11/12/availability-anywhere-part-12/index.html
on “Ask HN: How to tunnel HTTP(s) through filesystem?”