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Andrew Loutfi
Personal blog · aloutfi.com/writing · on HN as anloutfiprogrammingsystems
Andrew Loutfi's personal blog at aloutfi.com covers programming and systems. Since 2026, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “The load-bearing smoking gun”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link one post, 'load-bearing-smoking-gun', in threads on DRAM and a fruit fly connectome visualization. The comments say little about the writing itself.
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.
Technologist building software tools. Writing on backend and platform engineering.
Most-linked posts?
- The load-bearing smoking gun4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-07-29
What Hacker News says?
https://aloutfi.com/writing/load-bearing-smoking-gun I still pretty much stand by what I said; if my comments are ringing alarm bells then you're not really picking up on the right signals.
Comment linking /writing/load-bearing-smoking-gun
on “Spaghettifying DRAM”Submitted AI Shi(f)ts the Cost to the Reader as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://aloutfi.com/writing/load-bearing-smoking-gun
Comment linking /writing/load-bearing-smoking-gun
on “Claude Is Down”Submitted The load-bearing smoking gun as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://aloutfi.com/writing/load-bearing-smoking-gun I love it.
Comment linking /writing/load-bearing-smoking-gun
on “A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome”