Top all-time · #11609
Manuel Bernhardt
Personal blog · manuel.bernhardt.iosystemsprogramming
Manuel Bernhardt's personal blog at manuel.bernhardt.io covers systems and programming. Since 2013, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “Getting a 10000 nodes cluster to reach consensus on membership”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a short manifesto-style post urging people to ship one thing a day, and for a post on pinning benchmark runs to CPU cores.
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.
Distributed systems and high performance
Most-linked posts?
- Getting a 10000 nodes cluster to reach consensus on membership2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-04-30
- Generation JavaScript2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-12-30
- You got to hold the frame: Avoiding burnout as an independent consultant2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-05-08
- On pinning and isolating CPU cores2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-22
What Hacker News says?
> SHIP ONE THING TODAY. > RELEASE IT TO THE WORLD. > If you don’t have an idea, imitate something else. > You will think it’s not important enough. > You will think nobody will care. > You will overestimate its importance. > You will sometimes fail. Counterpoint: Instead of focusing on quantity ("hack it together and ship it", "ship it today", "finish it and release it to the world", etc.), let's take a step back an…
Comment linking /2014/12/30/generation-javascript/
on “Finish one thing today”Submitted MacBook Pro Insomnia as a story · 516 points
HN discussionI may seem overly negative but I don't like it when projects beg for stars. It will get one if it's interesting and that's for the reader to decide. That aside, the suggestion to pin to a core should likely be anything above core 0 at least [1] as otherwise the results will be quite noisy. This might not matter as much for such a short running process but using other cores doesn't hurt. [1]: https://manuel.bernhardt…
Comment linking /posts/2023-11-16-core-pinning/
on “Deus Lex Machina: releasing a new compacting Zig tokenizer”Submitted Five years of Scala and counting: debunking some myths as a story · 250 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generation JavaScript as a story · 150 points
HN discussionSubmitted Upgrading from React 0.11.2 to 0.14.7 in 347 easy steps as a story · 141 points
HN discussionSubmitted Slopstructions as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting a 10000 nodes cluster to reach consensus on membership as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reactive Golf or Iteratees and all that stuff in practice as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted On pinning and isolating CPU cores as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 3 key findings from 10 years of home-office as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A 10000 nodes cluster with Akka and the Rapid membership protocol as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I'm still using a MacBook Pro Late 2013 in 2019 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Akka Cluster Sharding as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted List of Akka anti-patterns as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted You got to hold the frame: Avoiding burnout as an independent consultant as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The microservices marathon as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A quick tour of JSON libraries in Scala as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Meaningful programming as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A quick tour of relational database access with Scala as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The 10000 Node Cluster as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 10000 nodes and beyond with Akka Cluster and Rapid as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to scale a cluster to 10000 nodes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tour of Akka Cluster – Akka Distributed Data as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A new accrual failure detector as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A new adaptive accrual failure detector for Akka as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Avoiding burnout or lessons learned from six years as an independent consultant as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Blocking / The cost of context switching as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The reality of writing a technical book as a story · 1 points
HN discussion