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Manuel Bernhardt

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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.

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29mentions?
6HN people?
2013–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2017

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?

  1. Getting a 10000 nodes cluster to reach consensus on membership
    2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-04-30
  2. Generation JavaScript
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-12-30
  3. You got to hold the frame: Avoiding burnout as an independent consultant
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-05-08
  4. On pinning and isolating CPU cores
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-22

What Hacker News says?

  1. > 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”
  2. Submitted MacBook Pro Insomnia as a story · 516 points

    HN discussion
  3. I 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”
  4. Submitted Five years of Scala and counting: debunking some myths as a story · 250 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Generation JavaScript as a story · 150 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Upgrading from React 0.11.2 to 0.14.7 in 347 easy steps as a story · 141 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Slopstructions as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Getting a 10000 nodes cluster to reach consensus on membership as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Reactive Golf or Iteratees and all that stuff in practice as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted On pinning and isolating CPU cores as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted 3 key findings from 10 years of home-office as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted A 10000 nodes cluster with Akka and the Rapid membership protocol as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Why I'm still using a MacBook Pro Late 2013 in 2019 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Akka Cluster Sharding as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted List of Akka anti-patterns as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted You got to hold the frame: Avoiding burnout as an independent consultant as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted The microservices marathon as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted A quick tour of JSON libraries in Scala as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Meaningful programming as a story · 2 points

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  20. Submitted A quick tour of relational database access with Scala as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted The 10000 Node Cluster as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted 10000 nodes and beyond with Akka Cluster and Rapid as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted How to scale a cluster to 10000 nodes as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Tour of Akka Cluster – Akka Distributed Data as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted A new accrual failure detector as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted A new adaptive accrual failure detector for Akka as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Avoiding burnout or lessons learned from six years as an independent consultant as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Blocking / The cost of context switching as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted The reality of writing a technical book as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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