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Lukáš Zapletal
Personal blog · lukas.zapletalovi.comprogrammingsystems
Lukáš Zapletal's personal blog at lukas.zapletalovi.com covers programming and systems. Since 2012, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Hidden gems of xterm”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on why Mastodon is hard to scale and Ruby's execution model, on enabling TRIM with LUKS on SSDs, and on Java startup speed with CDS. Comments only cite the posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Hidden gems of xterm2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-02-10
What Hacker News says?
Maybe not the best testimonial. From what I've heard, Mastodon is a bit of a beast to scale. While some of this is probably due to ActivityPub (a la https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2022/11/14/scaling-mastodon/ ) itself, some of it may be related to Ruby's execution model: https://lukas.zapletalovi.com/posts/2022/why-mastodon-instan... My issue with Ruby (and Rails) has always been the "ball of mud" problem that I feel orig…
Comment linking /posts/2022/why-mastodon-instances-are-difficult-to-scale/
on “Tiny JITs for a Faster FFI”Submitted Hidden gems of xterm as a story · 5 points
HN discussionOn Linux systems, you can configure LUKS encrypted volume to use trim[1], but there are additional consequences you need to consider before doing that[2]. [1] http://lukas.zapletalovi.com/2013/11/how-to-trim-your-ssd-in... [2] http://asalor.blogspot.cz/2011/08/trim-dm-crypt-problems.htm...
Comment linking /2013/11/how-to-trim-your-ssd-in-fedora-19.html
on “Why SSD Drives Destroy Court Evidence, and What Can Be Done About It (2012)”Submitted Microbenchmark: Ruby 1.9 MRI vs Google Dart 0.2 TP as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI came across CDS before when trying to get desktop java applications to start up faster. I also had hoped it would allow e.g. a constantly running fat server to run eclipse for multiple users more efficiently than each desktop duplicating work. http://lukas.zapletalovi.com/2012/11/want-faster-java-startu... I had thought CDS was just for Sun and IBM implementations, but from the above I can infer it works on OpenJD…
Comment linking /2012/11/want-faster-java-startups-in-fedora.html
on “Multi-tenant Java 8 VM in beta”Submitted Gems of Xterm (2013) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reserved Custom Keyboard Key in VSCode as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted New in Go 1.20: wrapping multiple errors as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Xterm zen mode as a story · 1 points
HN discussion