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Jason Evans
Personal blog · jasone.github.iosystemsprogramming
Jason Evans's personal blog at jasone.github.io covers systems and programming. Since 2025, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Jemalloc Postmortem”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jason Evans' postmortem on jemalloc, the memory allocator he created. Commenters cite it as his own account of the project's history, written after he worked at Facebook from 2009.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Jemalloc Postmortem4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-06-13
What Hacker News says?
> See the comment of vocx2tx https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49750698 To: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44264958 * https://jasone.github.io/2025/06/12/jemalloc-postmortem/
Comment linking /2025/06/12/jemalloc-postmortem/
on “Jemalloc 5.4.0”Submitted Jemalloc Postmortem as a story · 801 points
HN discussionJason Evans worked for Facebook for almost two decades, starting in 2009 - https://jasone.github.io/2025/06/12/jemalloc-postmortem/ He's doing just fine. If you're looking for a story about a FAANG company not paying engineers well for their work, this isn't it.
Comment linking /2025/06/12/jemalloc-postmortem/
on “Jemalloc un-abandoned by Meta”Jason Evans (the creator of jemalloc) recounted the entire thing last year: https://jasone.github.io/2025/06/12/jemalloc-postmortem/
Comment linking /2025/06/12/jemalloc-postmortem/
on “Jemalloc un-abandoned by Meta”