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/dev/nonsense
Personal blog · devnonsense.comprogrammingsystems
/dev/nonsense is a personal blog at devnonsense.com about programming and systems. Since 2023, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “The return of GLFighters: Porting a 23-year-old game to WebAssembly”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a TCP connection timeout thread as the author's latest update, revealing the cause of the mystery. The linked post is about asymmetric routing. No comment judges the writing.
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.
Taking things apart and putting them back together. Old software. Memories.
Most-linked posts?
- The return of GLFighters: Porting a 23-year-old game to WebAssembly3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-12-03
- Apple's Sillyballs (1988)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-04-27
- How does Linux NAT a ping?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-09
What Hacker News says?
Here is the author's latest update and the revelation of the mystery: https://devnonsense.com/posts/asymmetric-routing-around-the-...
Comment linking /posts/asymmetric-routing-around-the-firewall
on “TCP connection timeout mystery”Submitted TCP connection timeout mystery as a story · 137 points
HN discussionSubmitted Asymmetric Routing Around the Firewall as a story · 58 points
HN discussionSubmitted Evading the WiFi Router Ban as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mac Programming for Dummies (1999) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple's Sillyballs (1988) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple's SillyBalls as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The return of glfighters: porting a 23-year-old game to WebAssembly as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The return of GLFighters: Porting a 23-year-old game to WebAssembly as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Return of GLFighters: Porting a 23-Year-Old Game to WebAssembly as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted GLFighters Return: Porting a 23-year-old Game to the Web as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Vim syntax highlighting breaks sometimes (2022) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why start a coding side project? (2021) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How does Linux NAT a ping? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How does Linux nat a ping? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion