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Ilmari Lauhakangas
Personal blog · ilmarilauhakangas.fi · on HN as buovjagasystemsprogramming
Ilmari Lauhakangas's personal blog at ilmarilauhakangas.fi covers systems and programming. Since 2021, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “IRC technology news from the second half of 2021”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's IRC technology and news writing as a reference on chat servers and web front-ends for IRC. The comments only cite it as further reading and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Blog of Ilmari Lauhakangas
Most-linked posts?
- IRC technology news from the second half of 20212 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-01-08
- IRC technology news from the first half of 20262 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-05
- IRC technology news from the second half of 20252 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-15
What Hacker News says?
There are web front-ends to IRC that can mitigate message loss without having to run bouncers. Convos [1] and TheLounge [2] come to mind but there are others [3] [1] - https://convos.chat/ [2] - https://thelounge.chat/ [3] - https://www.ilmarilauhakangas.fi/irc_technology_news_from_th...
Comment linking /irc_technology_news_from_the_second_half_of_2021/
on “Simplicity of IRC”Submitted IRC technology news from the second half of 2021 as a story · 161 points
HN discussionThere is plenty of implementation activity and I am summarising it in these types of posts: https://www.ilmarilauhakangas.fi/irc_technology_news_from_th...
Comment linking /irc_technology_news_from_the_first_half_of_2021/
on “IRCv3 Spec round-up”Submitted IRC technology news from the first half of 2024 as a story · 39 points
HN discussionThat did not happen in H2 2021. I did refer to it briefly in my first article, but enough was written about the event elsewhere: https://www.ilmarilauhakangas.fi/irc_technology_news_from_th...
Comment linking /irc_technology_news_from_the_second_half_of_2020/
on “IRC technology news from the second half of 2021”Submitted IRC technology news from the second half of 2023 as a story · 7 points
HN discussionIt's lacking a maintainer, so didn't have any changes to talk about. I pointed to an active fork called Neırssi instead: https://www.ilmarilauhakangas.fi/irc_technology_news_from_th...
Comment linking /irc_technology_news_from_the_second_half_of_2021/
on “IRC technology news from the second half of 2021”Submitted IRC technology news from the second half of 2024 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionFor the latest in IRC tech, you can read my blog posts: https://www.ilmarilauhakangas.fi/irc_technology_news_from_th... I wrote the summaries with my own two hands, no LLMs involved.
Comment linking /irc_technology_news_from_the_second_half_of_2025/
on “Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month”Submitted IRC technology news from the second half of 2020 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionMy personal preference would be to use UnrealIRCD [1a][1b] + Anope services [2a][2b] and front-end it with TheLounge [3a][3b]. One could modify TheLounge web front-end to look just like Discord or Slack if one were so inclined. Unreal is the most flexible and stable chat daemon I have ever used. It has had decades of battle hardening and is feature rich. Most of the features are modules that can be disabled entirely…
Comment linking /irc_technology_news_from_the_second_half_of_2021/
on “Ask HN: What is your recommended stack for real time chat?”Submitted IRC technology news from the first half of 2026 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted IRC technology news from the first half of 2025 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted IRC technology news from the first half of 2022 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted IRC technology news from the second half of 2025 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted IRC technology news from the first half of 2023 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted IRC technology news from the first half of 2021 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted IRC technology news from the first half of 2026 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted IRC bouncer setup with soju and gamja on a Caddy web server as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted IRC technology news from the second half of 2022 as a story · 1 points
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