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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.
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?
- The Six Million Dollar LibC (2008)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-07-18
- Software Engineering Maxims Which May or May Not Be True2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-11-04
- BangIP Option (2012)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-04-01
What Hacker News says?
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…
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on “Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily?”Submitted Non-blocking Programmers as a story · 60 points
HN discussionThe 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?”Submitted The Six Million Dollar LibC (2008) as a story · 32 points
HN discussionIndeed - 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?”Submitted Soft Errors Are Hard Problems (2009) as a story · 11 points
HN discussion> 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”Submitted Embedded + CPU != x86 as a story · 10 points
HN discussionHere 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”Submitted Requiem for Jumbo Frames as a story · 6 points
HN discussionIt is not, it contains pieces of various BSD libc derivatives: http://codingrelic.geekhold.com/2008/11/six-million-dollar-l...
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on “Apache Kills Off Its C++ Standard Library”Submitted 4k Disk Sectors Are Coming as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't Cross the Tweetstreams as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Virtual Instruction Sets: Opcode Arguments as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software Engineering Maxims Which May or May Not Be True as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted BangIP Option (2012) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Discrimination on the Basis of Bytes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Moon of Endor as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Death of Copper Predicted. Film at 11 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Untouchable Code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software Engineering Maxims Which May or May Not Be True (2017) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Coding Relic: The Decapitated Duck Curve as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Coding Relic: BangIP Option as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sending SCSI/ATA commands to HDs in Python (under Linux) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Ten Bits is Better Than Eight as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted /dev/tty as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Intel and Achronix Get Engaged as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What will Microsoft do with their ARM license? as a story · 1 points
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HN discussionSubmitted Voyager 2 Soft Error as a story · 1 points
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