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blog.oddbit.com is a personal blog at blog.oddbit.com about systems and programming. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on the Noweb literate programming tool and on running Linux on the Xbox 360 with systemd-nspawn and binfmt. One commenter cites a 2016 post on systemd-nspawn as a source, noting it may be out of date.
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?
Literate programming seems to becoming popular in the R community due to KnitR and Rmarkdown. This seems to have sparked a few similar-working tools with possibly broader scope and adoption. In my bookmarks I find: - knot [1]: tangles source code from a text file formatted using plain markdown syntax, can use any markdown converter for weaving into a printable document - snarl [2]: extends markdown code blocks with…
Comment linking /post/2020-01-15-snarl-a-tool-for-literate-blog/
on “Noweb – A Simple, Extensible Tool for Literate Programming”Submitted Tracking down a kernel bug with git bisect as a story · 204 points
HN discussionsystemd-nspawn is still using binfmt which is how Linux tries to read ELF files, and what you really want when executing other architectures is to teach binfmt about qemu. More info (from 2016 so it could be out of date): https://blog.oddbit.com/post/2016-02-07-systemd-nspawn-for-f...
Comment linking /post/2016-02-07-systemd-nspawn-for-fun-and-wel/
on “Linux on the 7th Generation of Consoles Part 1: Xbox 360”Submitted Nat between identical networks using VRF as a story · 1 points
HN discussion