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Fernando Simões

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Fernando Simões's personal blog at frn.sh covers systems and programming. Since 2025, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-01, and you can follow it by feed.

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22mentions?
11HN people?
2025–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 20 in 2026

Most-linked posts?

  1. A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-09-13
  2. Page Table Memory Consumption
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-10-01
  3. Io_uring Without Readahead
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-09-01
  4. Postgres got group commit by deleting most of the patch
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-21
  5. Where did 400 MiB go?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-21

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted Io_uring Without Readahead as a story · 121 points

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  2. Submitted A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap as a story · 117 points

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  3. Submitted Page Table Memory Consumption as a story · 78 points

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  4. Submitted A 40ms Go GC pause caused by swap as a story · 11 points

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  5. Submitted 40ms Go GC stop-the-world pauses caused by swap as a story · 6 points

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  6. Submitted Page table memory consumption as a story · 5 points

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  7. Submitted A 40ms Go GC pause caused by swap as a story · 5 points

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  8. Submitted Understanding copy-on-write: why Redis needs memory overcommit as a story · 4 points

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  9. Submitted Page Table Memory Consumption as a story · 3 points

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  10. Submitted Postgres got group commit by deleting most of the patch as a story · 3 points

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  11. Submitted io_uring without readahead as a story · 3 points

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  12. Submitted What an 8kb Postgres read costs as a story · 3 points

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  13. Submitted Where did 400 MiB go? as a story · 3 points

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  14. Submitted Flipping two bytes to stop ls from being a program as a story · 2 points

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  15. Submitted What happens inside Postgres when IOPS runs out as a story · 2 points

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  16. Submitted Swap, memory pressure and the Go GC as a story · 1 points

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  17. Submitted The lock around WAL flush as a story · 1 points

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  18. Submitted 1193 back ends waiting on an append as a story · 1 points

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  19. Submitted Reading a cryptominer from its strace as a story · 1 points

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  20. Submitted Investigating Node.js memory bloat: V8 lazy GC and glibc arena fragmentation as a story · 1 points

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  21. Submitted Three Cache Layers Between Select and Disk as a story · 1 points

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  22. Submitted What Is a Program? as a story · 1 points

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