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Coding Relic

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Coding Relic is a personal blog at codingrelic.geekhold.com about programming, systems and hardware. Since 2008, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 33 times, most often “The Six Million Dollar LibC (2008)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-10, and you can follow it by feed.

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33mentions?
21HN people?
2008–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 12 in 2010

Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Coding Relic for its detailed posts on assembly and networking, and cite its history of BSD libc code and Google's software engineer career ladder.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Random musings on software in an embedded world.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The Six Million Dollar LibC (2008)
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-07-18
  2. Software Engineering Maxims Which May or May Not Be True
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-11-04
  3. BangIP Option (2012)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-04-01

What Hacker News says?

  1. messel · 2011-10-17Recommends
    Here are the ones in my reader, admittedly I haven't visited often enough over the past couple of months: http://www.igvita.com/ http://ejohn.org/ http://codingrelic.geekhold.com/ (Denny covers assembly and networking issues often in great detail) http://buhrmi.tumblr.com/ http://elegantcode.com/ http://72lions.com/ http://kellabyte.com/ (mobile-ish dev) http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ http://ihumanable.com/blog htt…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily?”
  2. Submitted Non-blocking Programmers as a story · 60 points

    HN discussion
  3. The technical advantages of ARM aren't _that_ great. True - see also this: http://codingrelic.geekhold.com/2010/08/x86-vs-arm-mobile-cp... However, if x86 has neither a process or a compatibility advantage, then even a tiny technical disadvantage turns into a tiny extra cost, which can be important for high volume chips.

    Comment linking /2010/08/x86-vs-arm-mobile-cpus.html

    on “The End of x86?”
  4. Submitted The Six Million Dollar LibC (2008) as a story · 32 points

    HN discussion
  5. Indeed - they are not dying anytime soon. See also this: http://codingrelic.geekhold.com/2010/08/x86-vs-arm-mobile-cp... for why ARM's technical advantages may be overblown.

    Comment linking /2010/08/x86-vs-arm-mobile-cpus.html

    on “The End of x86?”
  6. Submitted Soft Errors Are Hard Problems (2009) as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  7. > Android already uses the OpenBSD libc (IIRC) It is a mix of code from OpenBSD, NetBSD, and FreeBSD [1][2] [1] http://youtu.be/G-36noTCaiA?t=19m40s [2] http://codingrelic.geekhold.com/2008/11/six-million-dollar-l...

    Comment linking /2008/11/six-million-dollar-libc.html

    on “Boring SSL”
  8. Submitted Embedded + CPU != x86 as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  9. Here is Google's career ladder for software engineers: https://codingrelic.geekhold.com/2018/08/google-software-eng... Your typical engineer with relevant education and 5 years of experience is probably about L4/5.

    Comment linking /2018/08/google-software-engineering-levels-and.html

    on “‘Spiderman’ Hacker Daniel Kaye Took Down Liberia’s Internet”
  10. Submitted Requiem for Jumbo Frames as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  11. It is not, it contains pieces of various BSD libc derivatives: http://codingrelic.geekhold.com/2008/11/six-million-dollar-l...

    Comment linking /2008/11/six-million-dollar-libc.html

    on “Apache Kills Off Its C++ Standard Library”
  12. Submitted 4k Disk Sectors Are Coming as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Don't Cross the Tweetstreams as a story · 3 points

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  14. Submitted Virtual Instruction Sets: Opcode Arguments as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Software Engineering Maxims Which May or May Not Be True as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted BangIP Option (2012) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Discrimination on the Basis of Bytes as a story · 2 points

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  18. Submitted A Moon of Endor as a story · 2 points

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  19. Submitted Death of Copper Predicted. Film at 11 as a story · 2 points

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  20. Submitted Untouchable Code as a story · 2 points

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  21. Submitted Software Engineering Maxims Which May or May Not Be True (2017) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Coding Relic: The Decapitated Duck Curve as a story · 1 points

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  23. Submitted Coding Relic: BangIP Option as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Sending SCSI/ATA commands to HDs in Python (under Linux) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Why Ten Bits is Better Than Eight as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted /dev/tty as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Intel and Achronix Get Engaged as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted What will Microsoft do with their ARM license? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted The New Intelligence Agency: All of Us as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted Voyager 2 Soft Error as a story · 1 points

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