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Jim Calabro
Personal blog · calabro.ioprogrammingsystems
Jim Calabro's personal blog at calabro.io covers programming and systems. Since 2024, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jim Calabro's Uscope, a Linux debugger written from scratch. The one comment quotes the post's complaint that gdb and lldb crash often, mishandle data types and are slow to use.
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.
Jim Calabro
What Hacker News says?
> The available Linux debuggers are gdb and lldb. They both suck. They crash all the time, don't understand the data types I care about, and they don't make the data I need available at my fingertips as quickly as possible. quote from https://calabro.io/uscope Of course gdb, lldb have their problems (e.g. smashing tui with app output, what can be easily fixed, or very very very very long tab-tab completion, and cras…
Comment linking /uscope
on “Show HN: Uscope, a new Linux debugger written from scratch”Submitted One Hash Bloom Filters as a story · 152 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building Statically Linked Go Executables with CGO and Zig as a story · 144 points
HN discussionSubmitted How DWARF Works as a story · 32 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Dwarf Works: Parsing Just Enough ELF as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Uscope: A New Debugger and Introspection Toolchain as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted One Hash Bloom Filters as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Dwarf Works: Debug Information Entries as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted One Hash Bloom Filters as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Uscope Update #1 (GUI Linux Debugger) as a story · 1 points
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