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DHO is Mostly Confused
Personal blog · 9vx.org/postprogrammingsystems
DHO is Mostly Confused is a personal blog at 9vx.org about programming and systems. Since 2013, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “On Window TinyLFU (2016)”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for explanations of caching algorithms such as Window-TinyLFU, and for a post on drawing diagrams with ASCII art. Comments are brief and mostly cite the posts as sources.
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?
- On Window TinyLFU (2016)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-03-11
What Hacker News says?
Window-TinyLFU seems cool. Here's a blog post going through it at a level I mostly understand: https://9vx.org/post/on-window-tinylfu/ The core trick is to use some kind of Bloom-filter-style structure to keep approximate counts of accesses. Caffeine uses a count-min sketch, but you could also use a counting Bloom filter, and these are really just two members of a family of very similar things. The counts are occasi…
Comment linking /post/on-window-tinylfu/
on “Multigenerational LRU: more performant, versatile, straightforward than Linux's”Submitted Debugging: Psychology, Theory, and Application as a story · 5 points
HN discussionAccording to [0], the illustrations in "ØMQ - The Guide" [1] are made using asciitosvg. See, for example, the illustration following the "Divide and Conquer" heading: http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all#Divide-and-Conquer [0] https://9vx.org/post/simplistic-diagrams-with-ascii-art/ [1] http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all
Comment linking /post/simplistic-diagrams-with-ascii-art/
on “ASCIIToSVG: Convert ASCII Diagrams to Beautiful SVGs”Submitted On Window TinyLFU (2016) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Malloc Idiom in Go as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wait-Free Monitors for Concurrent Batching Workloads as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Window TinyLFU as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ascii Art to SVG as a story · 1 points
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