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Denis Defreyne

Personal blog · stoneship.org/journalprogrammingweb

Denis Defreyne writes denisdefreyne.com, a personal blog at stoneship.org about programming and web. Since 2009, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “C reference counting and you”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.

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5mentions?
5HN people?
2009–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2010

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Denis Defreyne's blog for C programming material such as function pointers and reference counting. One commenter pointed to a reference-counting post on the same site as a further example.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

The personal web site of Denis Defreyne

Most-linked posts?

  1. C reference counting and you
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-01-16

What Hacker News says?

  1. The same site has an interesting example of reference counting: http://stoneship.org/journal/2007/c-reference-counting-and-y...

    Comment linking /journal/2007/c-reference-counting-and-you/

    on “A Simply Neat Example of Function Pointers in C”
  2. Submitted Test-Driven Development Bypasses Your Brain as a story · 55 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted A Simply Neat Example of Function Pointers in C as a story · 31 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Comments on Comments on Zeldman's XHTML WTF as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted C reference counting and you as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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