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Loïc Baumann
Personal blog · nockawa.github.io/blogprogrammingsystems
Loïc Baumann writes Nockawa’s Blog, a personal blog at nockawa.github.io about programming and systems. Since 2026, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Why I'm Building a Database Engine in C#”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on what game engines know about data that databases forgot. One commenter discusses the author's about-page wording and compares its style to the linked post, without judging the post's content.
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.
Hello there, I'm Loïc Baumann Welcome to my site I talk about programming
Most-linked posts?
- Why I'm Building a Database Engine in C#2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-31
What Hacker News says?
If anything, this confirms it for me. On his about page, there's this: "Hi there, I am Loïc Baumann, I’m from Paris area, France I develop, since early 90s, first assembly, then C++ and nowadays mostly .net. My area of interest are 3D programming, low-latency/highly-scalable/performant solutions and many other things." Compare that style to what's in this most recent blog - mildly ungrammatical constructions typical…
Comment linking /microservice-or-not-microservice/
on “What Game Engines Know About Data That Databases Forgot”Submitted What Game Engines Know About Data That Databases Forgot as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I'm Building a Database Engine in C# as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I'm Building a Database Engine in C# as a story · 1 points
HN discussion