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mina86.com is a personal blog at mina86.com about programming and science. Since 2022, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Rust’s worst feature”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link mina86.com posts on running Emacs remotely over SSH and on the Linux ARG_MAX limit on command-line argument size. The comments cite them as sources rather than judging the writing.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Rust’s worst feature2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-27
What Hacker News says?
I haven't tried this myself but would it be possible with ssh port forwarding? Here is someone who seems to have done it: https://mina86.com/2021/emacs-remote/
Comment linking /2021/emacs-remote/
on “Eglot has landed on master: Emacs now has a built-in LSP client”Submitted Rust’s worst feature as a story · 124 points
HN discussionFor Linux, it's ARG_MAX, so $ getconf ARG_MAX 2097152 It's driven by some formula related to max stack size (ulimit -Ss), but capped at 6 MiB. https://mina86.com/2021/the-real-arg-max-part-1/
Comment linking /2021/the-real-arg-max-part-1/
on “PHP filter_var shenanigans”Submitted SRGB↔XYZ Conversion (2021) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Save 22% of your storage with this one easy trick as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust's Worst Feature as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Accessibility of date formats (and superiority of YYYY-MM-DD) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop using pickle already. Seriously, stop it as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI images should be copyrightable as a story · 1 points
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