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Codethink
Company blog · codethink.co.uk/articlesprogrammingsystems
Codethink is the company blog at codethink.co.uk, writing about programming and systems. Since 2014, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Fixing Rust's test suite on RISC-V”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Codethink's posts as examples of open source engineering work, such as RISC-V big-endian support, a fully open Linux stack on Nvidia Jetson TK1, and Flathub support. Comments only cite them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Established in 2007, Codethink has established an international reputation as a world-class provider of software engineering and consultancy services.
Most-linked posts?
- Fixing Rust's test suite on RISC-V2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-02
- /articles/risc-v-big-endian-support-runtime-testing/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-26
What Hacker News says?
Even the "guaranteed measure of maintenance" is not guaranteed. You don't get an SLA on patches or bugfixes from microsoft. You don't get an uptime SLA. Its all "best effort" or worse "when we feel like it". And the few SLAs they give you, e.g. on cloud stuff, are useless because it basically is "get your money back for that month". And the SLA measurement is done by their own downtime announcements, so a complete j…
Comment linking /news/trustable-software.html
on “Stepping Down as Libxml2 Maintainer”Submitted A cryptographically secure bootloader for RISC-V in Rust as a story · 189 points
HN discussionSome firm called CodeThink have been instigating it for RISC-V lately: https://www.codethink.co.uk/articles/risc-v-big-endian-suppo...
Comment linking /articles/risc-v-big-endian-support-runtime-testing/
on “The Linux Kernel Looks to “Bite the Bullet” in Enabling Microsoft C Extensions”Submitted Fixing Rust's test suite on RISC-V as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAnd the RISC V blog post: https://riscv.org/blog/to-boldly-big-endian-where-no-one-has... And CodeThink blog post: https://www.codethink.co.uk/articles/risc-v-big-endian-suppo...
Comment linking /articles/risc-v-big-endian-support-runtime-testing/
on “Writing a RISC-V Emulator in Rust”Submitted Automated Linux Kernel Testing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionPostgreSQL have a list of companies that can help: https://www.postgresql.org/support/professional_support/ Debian has a list of consultants, many of them are Debian developers: https://www.debian.org/consultants/ In addition there are a bunch of general and specialised open source consultancies, some examples: http://www.credativ.us/ https://www.igalia.com/ http://collabora.com/ http://codethink.co.uk/ http://catal…
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on “Open-source Funding and Support Questionnaire”Submitted Custom toolchains in Bazel using BuildStream as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAn example of regular glibc Linux running on Nvidia Jetson TK1 board (same chipset as in Shield) on fully open stack (nouveau + Wayland): http://www.codethink.co.uk/2014/06/12/no-secret-sauce-just-o... I wonder if there are open drivers for other components in Shield (WiFi, accelerometer, etc.) to enable running fully open stack on it. I'd really like to have something like Nemo or Plasma Active running on top of Wa…
Comment linking /2014/06/12/no-secret-sauce-just-open-source
on “The Nvidia Shield Tablet Review”Submitted Fixing Rust's test suite on RISC-V as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFlatpak is supported by Endless [1], SUSE [2], Codethink [3], Collabora [4], Igalia [5] ... none of these businesses have an issue with "supporting their competitors" because that's an inherent part of doing open source as a business. [1] https://support.endlessos.org/en/apps/flatpak [2] https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/containerised_apps/ [3] https://www.codethink.co.uk/articles/2022/flathub-codethink-... [4]…
Comment linking /articles/2022/flathub-codethink-collaboration/
on “KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store for the Linux desktop”Submitted A new way to develop on Linux (sysext-utils) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted RISC-V: exploring a bug in stack unwinding as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A dynamic rules_cc toolchain configuration for Bazel for both aarch64 and x86_64 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using the Remote Execution API for Distributed Builds as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Improving systemd's integration testing infrastructure (part 1) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted RHEL Flatpak Runtime as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Codethink is hiring software engineers and kernel engineers in Manchester UK as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Codethink Are Hiring in Manchester UK as a story · 1 points
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