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Gil Tene writes Stuff Gil Says, a personal blog at stuff-gil-says.blogspot.com about programming and systems. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “WriterReaderPhaser: A story about a new (?) synchronization primitive”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.

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5mentions?
4HN people?
2014–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2014

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The only comment is in a thread on programming blogs, where one commenter lists other engineering blogs from their RSS reader. No comment addresses this blog's writing, so its value to HN readers can't be judged from these comments.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. WriterReaderPhaser: A story about a new (?) synchronization primitive
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-03-29

What Hacker News says?

  1. Here are some software engineering blogs from my RSS reader in addition to the ones listed in TFA. I honestly don't know how over or underrated they are, but I guess that varies depending on which communities you're closer to. Mikola Lysenko https://0fps.net Graphics programming, geometry and algorithms. --- Steven Wittens http://acko.net Not underrated in any sense of the word, but I have to include it in case ther…

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    on “Programming blogs”
  2. Submitted New JIT optimizer in the Zing JVM as a story · 99 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted What sort of allocation rates can servers handle? as a story · 40 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted WriterReaderPhaser: A story about a new (?) synchronization primitive as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted WriterReaderPhaser: A story about a new (?) synchronization primitive as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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