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Anton Kropp

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Anton Kropp's personal blog at onoffswitch.net covers programming. Since 2013, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “A toy generational garbage collector”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-08-25, and you can follow it by feed.

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14mentions?
9HN people?
2013–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2016

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The single comment links one of the author's posts on FogBugz priority prediction with naive Bayes, alongside a Joel on Software article, as support for a point about Gmail. It does not judge the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Ramblings, musings, seg faults, and type systems. 10+ years of (mostly) tech mumbo jumbo. Click to read onoffswitch.net, by Anton Kropp, Launched 3 years ago.

Most-linked posts?

  1. A toy generational garbage collector
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-02-21

What Hacker News says?

  1. raverbashing · 2018-04-29
    Yes, and it's been really due in gmail https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/03/29/the-road-to-fogbug... http://onoffswitch.net/fogbugz-priority-prediction-naive-bay...

    Comment linking /fogbugz-priority-prediction-naive-bayes/

    on “What happened, Gmail?”
  2. devshorts · 2016-02-21

    Submitted A toy generational garbage collector as a story · 32 points

    HN discussion
  3. thunderbong · 2024-04-20

    Submitted 8 Months of Ruby as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  4. seapots · 2025-08-25

    Submitted Use it or lose it – musings on LLMs as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. javinpaul · 2016-01-22

    Submitted Distributed resource allocation with hazelcast as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. monumentshorts · 2013-02-27

    Submitted Creating clean callback registrations on emittable objects in node as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. shphrd · 2013-02-26

    Submitted Building a Custom Lexer as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. thunderbong · 2024-02-20

    Submitted Musings about "On Call" as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. based2 · 2016-08-03

    Submitted Unit testing DNS failovers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. javinpaul · 2016-02-21

    Submitted A toy generational garbage collector as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. cipherzero · 2016-01-21

    Submitted Leadership Election with Cassandra as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. cipherzero · 2015-01-06

    Submitted Creating stronger value type contracts (.Net) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. monumentshorts · 2013-05-05

    Submitted Flood fill and the largest mass problem (F#) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. monumentshorts · 2013-03-01

    Submitted Building yourself a language parser from scratch as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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