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Andrew Brampton

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Andrew Brampton writes bramp.net, a personal blog at blog.bramp.net about programming and systems. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Unrolling Java Loops at Runtime with Byte Buddy”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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9mentions?
5HN people?
2015–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog's 2017 post on vanity Go import paths, which lets a module's import path be separate from its repository host. Commenters cite it as a TL;DR for custom Go import paths.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Unrolling Java Loops at Runtime with Byte Buddy
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-09-10
  2. /post/2017/10/02/vanity-go-import-paths/
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-07-27

What Hacker News says?

  1. if you want to decouple the namespace from the repository location you can! https://golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-Remote_import_paths (read until the end) or TL;DR: https://blog.bramp.net/post/2017/10/02/vanity-go-import-path...

    Comment linking /post/2017/10/02/vanity-go-import-paths/

    on “Russ Cox on Go dependency management”
  2. Submitted Alternative Milks as a story · 88 points

    HN discussion
  3. As others have already pointed out you don't need to use Github. Some people call it vanity imports[0]. In my experience 'vanity imports' give better results when googling stuff about custom import paths. [0] - https://blog.bramp.net/post/2017/10/02/vanity-go-import-path...

    Comment linking /post/2017/10/02/vanity-go-import-paths/

    on “Go Modules Cheat Sheet”
  4. Submitted Unrolling Java Loops at Runtime with Byte Buddy as a story · 26 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Benchmarking a Java UnsafeArrayList as a story · 20 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Unrolling loops at runtime with Byte Buddy as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Marvel Cinematic Universe Timeline (2018) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Measuring Percentile Latency as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Unrolling Java Loops at Runtime with Byte Buddy as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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