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James Hunt
Personal blog · jameshunt.us/writingsprogrammingsystems
James Hunt writes jameshunt(.us), a personal blog at jameshunt.us about programming and systems. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's post on hard linking directories on macOS. The only comment is a bare link, offered as a pointer to the claim that Apple allows directory hard links.
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.
So the other day, I started writing braid. It's an implementation of the HTTP RFCs (723x). You see, I want to write web APIs in C. I know, I know, I should use a more modern language. Or a memory-safe language. Or some other such nonsense. I have been in this industry long enough, I shall do as I da
What Hacker News says?
Apple allows hard linking directories (I believe it is used for Time Machine somehow): https://jameshunt.us/writings/linking-dirs-in-macos/
Comment linking /writings/linking-dirs-in-macos/
on “Why Unix kernels have grown caches for directory entries ('name caches')”Submitted Maps, Smaps and Memory Stats as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Maps, Smaps and Memory Stats as a story · 1 points
HN discussion