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Brokenhaze

Personal blog · brokenhaze.com/blogsystemsprogramming

Brokenhaze is a personal blog at brokenhaze.com about systems and programming. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “How Stack Exchange get the most out of haproxy”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
4HN people?
2012–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2014

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

Why HN links it

The one HN comment links a 2014 post on how Stack Exchange's system architecture works. The comment does not comment on the writing itself.

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.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. How Stack Exchange get the most out of haproxy
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-03-25

What Hacker News says?

  1. This might help: http://brokenhaze.com/blog/2014/03/25/how-stack-exchange-get...

    Comment linking /blog/2014/03/25/how-stack-exchange-gets-the-most-out-of-haproxy/

    on “StackExchange System Architecture”
  2. Submitted How Stack Exchange gets the most out of HAProxy as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted How Stack Exchange get the most out of haproxy as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Where are all of the sysadmins? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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