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Into the Stack
Personal blog · blog.canoozie.netsystemsdataprogramming
Into the Stack is a personal blog at blog.canoozie.net about systems, data and programming. Since 2025, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Disks Lie: Building a WAL that actually survives”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Comments link Into the Stack's posts on systems topics, such as a write-ahead log post about disks that lie, as examples when discussing whether the author's writing resembles LLM output.
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.
Diving deep into systems
Most-linked posts?
- Disks Lie: Building a WAL that actually survives2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-12
What Hacker News says?
Sure, I believe that completely. But that's not how ChatGPT writes! Here are some random examples from one of the (at least) half-dozen LLM-co-written posts that rose high on the front page over the weekend: https://blog.canoozie.net/disks-lie-building-a-wal-that-actu... You write a record to disk before applying it to your in-memory state. If you crash, you replay the log and recover. Done. Except your disk is lyin…
Comment linking /disks-lie-building-a-wal-that-actually-survives/
on “I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me”Submitted Async I/O on Linux in databases as a story · 205 points
HN discussionSubmitted Disks Lie: Building a WAL that actually survives as a story · 48 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Log Is the Database as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A delightfully silly database that lives in CPU cache as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Modern databases keep their cool as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deep dive: Quad storage for optimal throughput and latency as a story · 1 points
HN discussion