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Diwaker Gupta
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Diwaker Gupta's personal blog at floatingsun.net covers programming and web. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a post about macOS annoyances, specifically .DS_Store files. The one comment describes how zipping folders on macOS adds an unwanted __MACOSX folder. It does not judge 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.
Floating Sun by Diwaker Gupta
What Hacker News says?
I have not encountered .DS_Store files enough for them to annoy me, but the same design flaw works itself into my life almost every day, in the form of zip files. When zipping files on OSX, the common way is to right click on your directory of choice in Finder and select “Archive as…”. This creates a Zip file, with the unwanted addition of a _macosx folder. According to this [1] article, the folder is used for thumb…
Comment linking /2007/02/07/whats-with-__macosx-in-zip-files/
on “Death to .DS_Store”Submitted Thrift vs. Protocol Buffers as a story · 108 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reconsidering Vim as a story · 1 points
HN discussion