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Alex Chernyakhovsky

Personal blog · blog.achernya.comsystemsprogramming

Alex Chernyakhovsky's personal blog at blog.achernya.com covers systems and programming. Since 2013, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.

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2013–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2013

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Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for its post on writing a shell in Rust as a learning project, based on xv6. One commenter pointed to the RSS feed as a way to read the post without JavaScript.

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What Hacker News says?

  1. To read this without JavaScript, you can get the post text from the (current) top of the RSS feed: http://blog.achernya.com/feeds/posts/default The source code of the (unfinished) shell is at: https://github.com/achernya/xv6-shell.rs/blob/master/src/mai...

    Comment linking /feeds/posts/default

    on “Starting off in Rust: Trying to write a shell”
  2. Submitted Please Stop Attacking MIT's Network as a story · 365 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted By installing NAT, MIT stifles innovation as a story · 272 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Starting off in Rust: Trying to write a shell as a story · 88 points

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  5. Submitted Systemd to the rescue as a story · 23 points

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  6. Submitted MIT owned so many IPv4 Addresses that it never had NAT until 2017 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Enterprise Linux Emergency Modernization Kit as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted MIT SIPB Network switch outage postmortem as a story · 1 points

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