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Guillermo Garron
Personal blog · garron.me · on HN as g-garronprogrammingsystems
Guillermo Garron's personal blog at garron.me covers programming and systems. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 41 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a Linux guide to benchmarking and stress-testing a server, which one commenter called a good intro article on the topic.
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.
Guillermo Garron's site: Linux and tech tutorials, photography and more, in English and Spanish, since 2007.
What Hacker News says?
It was just the day before yesterday that I've written this http://garron.me/blog/what-i-have-learned-at-hacker-news.htm... About how I like HN, and why it is not yet-another-social-site full of kids trying to push their post to the top. Sorry if this sound negative, but I'd rather prefer HN as it is now, If I find something I think might interest this "mature" community I'll come here and post it, It does not matte…
Comment linking /blog/what-i-have-learned-at-hacker-news.html
on “Show HN: Like Button for Hacker News”Submitted Why to use Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus share links and not buttons as a story · 100 points
HN discussionI still think that >It would be better if Samsung and Google could low the price a little bit. That is what I wrote months ago. http://www.garron.me/linux/chrome-os-chromebook-ready-prime-... The price is too high for what this thing is capable of.
Comment linking /linux/chrome-os-chromebook-ready-prime-time.html
on “Chromebox”Submitted Please do not use Feedburner service as a story · 63 points
HN discussionYou are right, it would need less hardware for the same work. Two days ago I wrote this: http://garron.me/linux/perfect-blogging-platform.html But the way his comments work, they way he has implemented the infinite scroll it's great and I'm no expert, but I think that is not possible with static pages.
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on “9 million hits/day with 120 megs RAM”Submitted Starting as an app developer: iPhone or Android? Which one to choose? as a story · 9 points
HN discussionJust because of that I have disabled fb like, twitter and g+ from my blog. I had also disabled google analytics but traffic started to go down. Today I have re-enabled analytics to see if that is the reason. I did not have too much traffic from fb or twitter to think that is because I took their buttons out. Anyway, I prefer to avoid those sites tracking my readers, savvy people can anyway share my content if they w…
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on “ Can websites personally identify visitors?”Submitted Wordpress + Nginx + APC + Varnish = 9+ Million visits/day | No Wordpress Cache as a story · 5 points
HN discussionGood post Chris. And if you have to hire one, which one do you prefer. Some days ago, I've posted this: http://garron.me/blog/designer-vs-coder-hiring.html
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on “Crossing the chasm between design and code”Submitted Google Chrome OS Ready for Prime Time as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThere's a few options with regards to benchmarking your server install, here's a good intro article[1] I found for this. To follow up with 0x400614's answer, you'll want to look at `ab` - ApacheBench. [1] https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-benchmark-stress-your-...
Comment linking /en/go2linux/how-benchmark-stress-your-apache-nginx-or-iis-server.html
on “Ask HN: Fake Traffic Generator”Submitted Enable IPv6 in Nginx as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Git indroduction, the basic commands and workflow as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted [Show HN] My first attempt to do a Git guide. as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Designer vs coder: who would you hire? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Migrate from Drupal to Jekyll, using url_alias info. as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on Google Chrome OS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on Google Chrome OS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted DigitalOcean VPS ($5/mo.) vs. Linode Review as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scp | Guide for the newbie and intermediate user to copy files between computers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On hiring process / key factors to consider as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Multi Blog Site with Jekyll as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 4 Reasons to Have Live Linux at Home as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Almost all you need to know about charset encoding as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tools (platform) for the Linux geek's blog as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I do not write too many Linux reviews as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Image type and size from the Linux command line as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to: Multi language site with Jekyll as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: "Running again" | My first try to write a tale. as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted "The Best" and "The Worst" balanced as a story · 1 points
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