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ctrl-c is a personal blog at ctrl-c.us about programming and systems. Since 2021, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “The Tool Cache Manifesto”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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5mentions?
5HN people?
2021–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2024

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link posts on the author's blog about Go testing on other architectures via QEMU (test-goarch) and about syntax highlighting. The comments only cite these posts; none judge the writing.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The Tool Cache Manifesto
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-04

What Hacker News says?

  1. Ah I found this https://ctrl-c.us/posts/test-goarch I guess it's qemu-user-binfmt registering the alternate bin formats to automatically run under QEMU, that's pretty neat

    Comment linking /posts/test-goarch

    on “Show HN: Go Plan9 Memo”
  2. Submitted The Tool Cache Manifesto as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  3. i think that's at least mostly serious. he's not a fan of syntax highlighting. https://ctrl-c.us/posts/highlight

    Comment linking /posts/highlight

    on “Ask HN: Any active COBOL devs here? What are you working on?”
  4. Submitted The Tool Cache Manifesto as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Cross-arch Go tests with QEMU as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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