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Joey's HQ
Personal blog · jyu.dev/blogprogrammingsystems
Joey's HQ is a personal blog at jyu.dev about programming and systems. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “/dev/null is an ACID compliant database”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Joey's HQ for its humorous post "/dev/null is an ACID compliant database", which treats the Unix null device as a database. One commenter also cites it under the RFC 863 Discard Protocol thread.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Perpetual Learner. Software Engineer. Student at McGill University.
Most-linked posts?
- /dev/null is an ACID compliant database2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-23
What Hacker News says?
Ah, how cute. An actual "old school" blog. Nostalgia. Tears in eyes. https://jyu.dev/blog/ And the production of articles is about right too. . "Hello World" - The start of something great. [Dec 2024] . "Comparison is the Thief of Joy" - Link to another article. [Apr 2025] . "/dev/null is an ACID compliant database" - Funny, insightful. [Aug 2025] That read about like my blog 20 years ago. Funny post though, good re…
Comment linking /blog/
on “/dev/null is an ACID compliant database”Submitted /dev/null is an ACID compliant database as a story · 622 points
HN discussionSee also https://jyu.dev/blog/why-dev-null-is-an-acid-compliant-datab...
Comment linking /blog/why-dev-null-is-an-acid-compliant-database/
on “RFC 863 – Discard Protocol (1983)”