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latentcontent.net
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latentcontent.net is a personal blog at latentcontent.net about programming and economics. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as an explanation of libpng's API design, specifically why its setjmp-based error handling is a problem. Cited in a discussion of libpng buffer overflow CVE-2015-8126.
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.
What Hacker News says?
Are you referring to setjmp? Because it's quite the opposite. This blog article does a good job explaining: http://latentcontent.net/2007/12/05/libpng-worst-api-ever/
Comment linking /2007/12/05/libpng-worst-api-ever/
on “CVE-2015-8126: Multiple buffer overflows in libpng”Submitted Fictional Plumbing Problems As A Tortured Analogy For Software Engineering as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted Monolithoogle & Distributazon: A Tale of Two Companies as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Taxes & Leverage as a story · 1 points
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