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Anmol Sarma

Personal blog · anmolsarma.in/post · on HN as unmolesystemsprogramming

Anmol Sarma's personal blog at anmolsarma.in covers systems and programming. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “DCCP: The socket type you probably never heard of”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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17mentions?
5HN people?
2015–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2019

The author on HN?

unmole · 7,291 karma · member since 2013

https://www.anmolsarma.in/about/

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. DCCP: The socket type you probably never heard of
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-12-13
  2. Network Redirections in Bash
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-05-04
  3. Stop Memsetting Structures
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-04-27

What Hacker News says?

  1. I stumbled upon Bash network redirections last year and spent some trying to figure out how echoing to /dev/$PROTO/$HOST/$PORT works: https://www.anmolsarma.in/post/bash-net-redirections/

    Comment linking /post/bash-net-redirections/

    on “Sockets in Your Shell”
  2. Submitted Stop Memsetting Structures as a story · 191 points

    HN discussion
  3. Here's an overview of DCCP I wrote if anyone is interested: https://www.anmolsarma.in/post/dccp/

    Comment linking /post/dccp/

    on “Linux kernel: CVE-2017-6074: DCCP double-free vulnerability (local root)”
  4. Submitted DCCP: The socket type you probably never heard of as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  5. [Shameless Plug] A blog post I wrote about file creation time in Linux: https://www.anmolsarma.in/post/linux-file-creation-time/

    Comment linking /post/linux-file-creation-time/

    on “A statx(2) Linux system Python wrapper”
  6. Submitted Single-stepping through the Kernel as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. It might not be your primary concern but I found Ghost's performance to be much better than Wordpress': http://www.anmolsarma.in/lazy-performance-comparison-of-word...

    Comment linking /lazy-performance-comparison-of-wordpress-and-ghost/

    on “Ask: Ghost or Wordpress?”
  8. Submitted DCCP: The socket type you probably never heard of as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. https://www.anmolsarma.in/ I haven't written anything in 3 years but I think a few of my posts were pretty good. Some of them even made it to the top of HN and Proggit.

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”
  10. Submitted DCCP: The socket type you probably never heard of as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Early in the pandemic, I built a mouse jiggler for my roommate for a similar reason: https://www.anmolsarma.in/post/mouse-jiggler/

    Comment linking /post/mouse-jiggler/

    on “Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022”
  12. Submitted Stop Memsetting Structures as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted A DIY USB Mouse Jiggler as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Network Redirections in Bash as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted File Creation Time in Linux as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Network Redirections in Bash as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Lazy Performance Comparison of WordPress and Ghost as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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