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Jacek Galowicz

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Jacek Galowicz's personal blog at blog.galowicz.de covers programming. Since 2016, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “A reinterpret_cast Trap”. It has a working feed you can follow.

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25mentions?
5HN people?
2016–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 9 in 2016

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for a tutorial on setting up C++ projects with Nix. One commenter cites Nix as a dependency management tool with multi-language support, reproducible builds and package caching.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. A reinterpret_cast Trap
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-01-23
  2. Setting up a C++ project environment with nix
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-04-18

What Hacker News says?

  1. Nix is becoming more of a name in dependency management systems: https://blog.galowicz.de/2019/04/17/tutorial_nix_cpp_setup/ Its claims to fame are support for multiple languages, reproducible builds, and system-wide package caching.

    Comment linking /2019/04/17/tutorial_nix_cpp_setup/

    on “Re: Integrating "safe" languages into OpenBSD? (2017)”
  2. Submitted Setting up a C++ project environment with nix as a story · 34 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Constructing Parameterized Matrices with GNU Octave as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted (Qt)Quick C++ Project Setup with Nix as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted NixOS Community Oceansprint 2021 Report as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Generating Integer Sequences at Compile Time as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Executing Brainfuck at Compile Time with C++ Templates as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Book Review: Algorithms to Live By – The Computer Science of Human Decisions as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted NixOS Community Oceansprint late 2022 Report as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Managing libraries with Nix as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted A reinterpret_cast Trap as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Implementing a Turing Tape for Use at Compile Time as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Uncaught Exceptions in C++ as a story · 2 points

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  14. Submitted A __FILE__ Macro Which Does Not Contain the Whole Source File Path as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Interpolation of Records of Values in PureScript as a story · 1 points

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  16. Submitted Mixed C++ Monorepo Project Structure Development and Build Workflow as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Automatic Testing of Display Resolution and Frame Drop Detection as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Book Review: A Philosophy of Software Design as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Filtering Unique Items from Heterogeneous Lists at Compile Time as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Managing libraries with Nix as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted A reinterpret_cast Trap as a story · 1 points

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  22. Submitted Do Not Fear Recursion as a story · 1 points

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  23. Submitted Transformations Between User Input/Output and Type Lists as a story · 1 points

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  24. Submitted Type Lists as a story · 1 points

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  25. Submitted C++: Const References to Temporary Objects as a story · 1 points

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