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Giampaolo Rodola
Personal blog · gmpy.dev/blogprogrammingsystems
Giampaolo Rodola's personal blog at gmpy.dev covers programming and systems. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Ending 15 years of subprocess polling”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked post covers new heap introspection APIs in psutil 7.2.0 and the psleak tool for detecting memory leaks in C extension modules. The one comment announces the release and 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.
Python enthusiast, core developer, psutil author
Most-linked posts?
- Ending 15 years of subprocess polling3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-01-28
What Hacker News says?
I have released new psutil 7.2.0, which includes 2 new APIs to inspect C heap memory allocations. I have also released a new tool called psleak, which detects memory leaks in C extension modules. https://gmpy.dev/blog/2025/psutil-heap-introspection-apis https://github.com/giampaolo/psleak/
Comment linking /blog/2025/psutil-heap-introspection-apis
on “Detect memory leaks of C extensions with psutil and psleak”Submitted Wheels for free-threaded Python now available for psutil as a story · 72 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ending 15 years of subprocess polling as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted From Python 3.3 to today: ending 15 years of subprocess polling as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted From Python 3.3 to today: ending 15 years of subprocess polling as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Detect memory leaks of C extensions with psutil and psleak as a story · 1 points
HN discussion