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Kamal Marhubi

Personal blog · kamalmarhubi.com/blog · on HN as kalmarprogrammingsystems

Kamal Marhubi's personal blog at kamalmarhubi.com covers programming and systems. Since 2015, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Eliminating branches in Rust for fun but not much profit”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.

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24mentions?
8HN people?
2015–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 11 in 2015

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

Why HN links it

HN commenters link this blog's posts on Rust and low-level code, such as a post on eliminating branches in an is_token function, in discussions of related Rust topics like u128 types.

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.

The author on HN?

kalmar · 475 karma · member since 2010

http://kamalmarhubi.com/

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Eliminating branches in Rust for fun but not much profit
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-09-16
  2. Using strace to figure out how Git push over SSH works
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-11-22

What Hacker News says?

  1. For whoever downvoted, the issues of u128 types came up in the discussion for this function: fn is_token(c: u8) -> bool http://kamalmarhubi.com/blog/2015/09/15/eliminating-branches...

    Comment linking /blog/2015/09/15/eliminating-branches-in-rust-for-fun-but-not-much-profit/

    on “Rust: 128 bit integers preparing to be released”
  2. Submitted Rust and Nix = easier Unix systems programming as a story · 255 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Kubernetes from the ground up: the API server as a story · 116 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Using strace to figure out how Git push over SSH works as a story · 111 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Eliminating branches in Rust for fun but not much profit as a story · 83 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted What is a kubelet? as a story · 82 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Segfaults are our friends and teachers as a story · 60 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Spying on Android events without modifying source code as a story · 42 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Kubernetes from the ground up: the scheduler as a story · 33 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Squashing Docker images with Btrfs as a story · 31 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Hg advent init as a story · 25 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Hg advent -m '02: extensions' as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Poking around /usr/lib/git-core as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Using strace to figure out how Git push over SSH works as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Some preliminary Linux IPC latency data as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Rust should be an excellent open source citizen as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Playing with the Rust AST as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Eat your greens and read your man pages as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Things you could do with the Rust AST as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Git rebase --exec: make sure your tests pass at each commit (and other goodies) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted My git aliases as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Eliminating branches in Rust for fun but not much profit as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted The value of uniform build and test infrastructure as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted The excellence of uniform build and test infrastructure as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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