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Ifeanyi Ubah

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Ifeanyi Ubah writes Chord Simple, a personal blog at ifeanyi.co about systems and programming. Since 2015, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “A deep dive into Linux namespaces”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.

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2015–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2019

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

Why HN links it

Linked in a Docker-slim thread. The one comment explains Linux namespaces and layered overlayfs images, and does not comment on the writing itself, so the linked posts seem to be about container images.

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.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. A deep dive into Linux namespaces
    6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2019-06-27

What Hacker News says?

  1. I'm not completely sure what it is you want to know, but basically there are two pieces to linux container tech (Docker and others). The first is a set of Linux kernel features that lets us isolate various aspects of processes in separate namespaces. The second is layered images, using filesystem features like overlayfs and copy-on-write to avoid having to duplicated everything. These two features of the Linux kerne…

    Comment linking /posts/linux-namespaces-part-1/

    on “Docker-slim: Minify your Docker container image without changing anything”
  2. Submitted A deep dive into Linux namespaces, part 4 as a story · 158 points

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  3. Submitted Understanding consensus and Paxos in distributed systems as a story · 107 points

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  4. Submitted A deep dive into Linux namespaces, part 2 as a story · 51 points

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  5. Submitted Implementing a browser game in Haskell as a story · 8 points

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  6. Submitted A deep dive into Linux namespaces as a story · 5 points

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  7. Submitted A deep dive into Linux namespaces as a story · 4 points

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  8. Submitted A Deep Dive Into Linux Namespaces (2019) as a story · 3 points

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  9. Submitted A deep dive into Linux namespaces as a story · 2 points

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  10. Submitted A deep dive into Linux namespaces, part 3 as a story · 1 points

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  11. Submitted A deep dive into Linux namespaces as a story · 1 points

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