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antek's tech blog
Personal blog · anadoxin.org/blogprogrammingsystems
antek's tech blog is a personal blog at anadoxin.org about programming and systems. Since 2016, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on C++ pitfalls, such as portability of random number generation, and on whether Make is worth using. Comments only cite these posts as support, without judging the writing.
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.
What Hacker News says?
What is confusing about CMake? cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.5) add_executable(exe file.cpp) Do you think that's more complicated than the basics of a Makefile? [1] [1]: https://anadoxin.org/blog/is-it-worth-using-make.html/
Comment linking /blog/is-it-worth-using-make.html/
on “Halfix – A portable x86 emulator written in C99”Submitted Reed-Solomon error recovery in RAID-6 as a story · 101 points
HN discussionPortability of random number generation in C++ is also described in this blog post: http://anadoxin.org/blog/c-shooting-yourself-in-the-foot-4.h...
Comment linking /blog/c-shooting-yourself-in-the-foot-4.html
on “Generating random numbers using C++ standard library: the problems”Submitted Use tabs and spaces (2018) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reed-Solomon error recovery in RAID-6 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reed-Solomon error recovery in RAID-6 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is it worth using make? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating a Bootable El Capitan ISO Image as a story · 1 points
HN discussion