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Death and the penguin

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Death and the penguin is a personal blog at deathandthepenguinblog.wordpress.com about programming and systems. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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2015–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2015

A tech blog

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  1. Submitted Poor man's memory leak detection with strace as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  2. Submitted What's all this new-fangled DBus rubbish? (2021) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Apparently this is legal: float* b_ptr = &f.a and 1; as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted O(1) space, O(N) time non-modifying median using ranges beats std:nth_element as a story · 1 points

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