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Cracking The Code

Personal blog · indradhanush.github.io/blogsystemsprogramming

Cracking The Code is a personal blog at indradhanush.github.io about systems and programming. Since 2017, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Life of a Container (2020)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-30, and you can follow it by feed.

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12mentions?
4HN people?
2017–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2017

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog's "Life of a Container" post as a companion to other guides on building Linux containers from scratch using namespaces. The comments only list it as a see-also resource.

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.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Life of a Container (2020)
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-07-28
  2. Writing a Unix Shell
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-05-29

What Hacker News says?

  1. See also: * The What, Why and How of Containers ( https://www.annwan.me/computers/what-why-how-containers/ ) * Containers from Scratch ( https://ericchiang.github.io/post/containers-from-scratch/ ) * Linux Containers From Scratch in C ( https://www.lucavall.in/blog/barco-linux-containers-from-scr... ) * Life of a Container ( https://indradhanush.github.io/blog/life-of-a-container/ )

    Comment linking /blog/life-of-a-container/

    on “Building a Linux Container Using Namespaces: Part – 1 (2020)”
  2. Submitted Writing a Unix Shell – Part II as a story · 210 points

    HN discussion
  3. See also: * https://ericchiang.github.io/post/containers-from-scratch/ * https://indradhanush.github.io/blog/life-of-a-container/

    Comment linking /blog/life-of-a-container/

    on “Building a Linux Container Runtime from Scratch”
  4. Submitted Writing a Unix Shell as a story · 193 points

    HN discussion
  5. Location: Bangalore, India Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Python, Golang, Postgres, Redis, Kafka, AWS, Terraform, Docker Resume: http://bit.ly/indradhanush_resume Email: indradhanush.gupta@gmail.com I have 3 years of experience working in the backend and infrastructure team at an online payments startup. Currently I am attending the Recurse Center, a 12 week self directed program aimed at becomin…

    Comment linking /tags/

    on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2017)”
  6. Submitted Life of a Container (2020) as a story · 73 points

    HN discussion
  7. Location: Bangalore, India (UTC +530) Remote: Yes. Preferred. (I have previous remote experience) Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Python, Golang, Postgres, Redis, Kafka, AWS, Terraform, Docker Resume: http://bit.ly/indradhanush_resume Email: indradhanush.gupta@gmail.com I recently finished my batch at the Recurse Center (formerly Hacker School), a twelve week self directed programmer's retreat focussed on bec…

    Comment linking /blog

    on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2017)”
  8. Submitted Whitespaces and Strings in Bash (2018) as a story · 27 points

    HN discussion
  9. Location: Bangalore, India (UTC +530) Remote: Yes (I have previous remote experience) Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Python, Golang, Postgres, Redis, Kafka, AWS, Terraform, Docker Resume: http://bit.ly/indradhanush_resume Email: indradhanush.gupta@gmail.com I recently finished my batch at the Recurse Center (formerly Hacker School), a twelve week self directed programmer's retreat focussed on becoming a bett…

    Comment linking /blog

    on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2017)”
  10. Submitted Writing a Unix Shell – Part III as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Writing a Unix Shell – Part I as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Think about how you deploy code before you write it as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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