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Mendhak / Code
Personal blog · code.mendhak.comprogrammingsystemssecurity
Mendhak / Code is a personal blog at code.mendhak.com about programming, systems and security. Since 2016, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-16, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for practical how-to posts, such as running Stable Diffusion on Ubuntu. One commenter cites the post as a setup guide they followed with conda.
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.
Articles, information, and tutorials on development, programming, technology, science.
Most-linked posts?
- I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-25
- It's OK to hardcode feature flags2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-01
What Hacker News says?
Yes I followed one recently, though it uses conda. The SD script runs in a conda environment, so when you uninstall conda your system is preserved and hasn't been stomped on. https://code.mendhak.com/run-stable-diffusion-on-ubuntu/
Comment linking /run-stable-diffusion-on-ubuntu/
on “Running Stable Diffusion on Your GPU with Less Than 10Gb of VRAM”Submitted I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022) as a story · 796 points
HN discussionSubmitted My OpenStreetMap Workflow: Mapping the Village of Marmari, Evia as a story · 168 points
HN discussionSubmitted 'Zero trust’ security is a poor choice of words as a story · 153 points
HN discussionSubmitted It's OK to hardcode feature flags as a story · 99 points
HN discussionSubmitted In praise of opinionated frameworks as a story · 80 points
HN discussionSubmitted Use KeePassXC to sign your Git commits as a story · 79 points
HN discussionSubmitted It's OK to hardcode feature flags (2025) as a story · 77 points
HN discussionSubmitted My brief attempt at learning about Software Defined Radio on Ubuntu as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted There is a dearth of automatic infinite scroll mice as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to use KeePass with KeeAgent to serve SSH keys as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running Windows apps natively in Linux with Docker as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My most useful network troubleshooting commands and tools as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons Learned in Moving on from Lightroom as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Appreciating F-Droid as an app developer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Routing only a few domains over a VPN as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Homepage for the Terminal as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Privacy Is Not a Soundbite as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Talking to a local LLM in the Firefox sidebar as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How do terminal progress bars work? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kobo with text-to-image generation and ELI5 (Stable Diffusion/OpenAI) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The unpleasant hackiness of CSS dark mode toggles as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wildcard certificates are not always a security risk as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Escaping Jekyll, and Moving to Eleventy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why the Fuck won’t you build? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Standard paper sizes are an elegant example of simple maths as a story · 1 points
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