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Hauleth's blog

Personal blog · hauleth.dev/postprogrammingsystems

Hauleth's blog is a personal blog at hauleth.dev about programming and systems. Since 2020, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Reviewing Code Requires Reading”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-04, and you can follow it by feed.

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12mentions?
6HN people?
2020–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2026

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for its post on BEAM process memory usage, cited as a comparison point for how Erlang and Elixir fare on memory when running many concurrent tasks.

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.

Blog about BEAM, Rust, fantasy & stuff

Most-linked posts?

  1. Reviewing Code Requires Reading
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-06-04
  2. How much memory is needed to run 1M Erlang processes?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-10

What Hacker News says?

  1. signa11 · 2024-11-29Recommends
    fta, please consider reading this: https://hauleth.dev/post/beam-process-memory-usage/ as well to see how erlang (elixir) fares as well.

    Comment linking /post/beam-process-memory-usage/

    on “How much memory do you need in 2024 to run 1M concurrent tasks?”
  2. Submitted Who Watches Watchmen? – Integrating Elixir Applications with Systemd as a story · 188 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Stop Spreading C**p at my $HOME as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted The Lion, The Witch, and the audacity of recruiters as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Reviewing Code Requires Reading as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Jeopardy World as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Reviewing Code Requires Reading as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted My journey in optimising Elixir codebase as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted How much memory is needed to run 1M Erlang processes? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Guards Guards – small gotcha in Elixir guard expressions as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted How do I write Elixir tests? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Who watches watchmen? – Integrating Elixir applications with systemd – part II as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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