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MJ Pooladkhay
Personal blog · pooladkhay.com/postsprogrammingsystems
MJ Pooladkhay's personal blog at pooladkhay.com covers programming and systems. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “My first patch to the Linux kernel”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-19, 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 post on C's undefined behavior, which argues that nearly everything in C is UB. One commenter pushes back on its claim that "just don't do that" is the right way to handle errors.
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.
MJ Pooladkhay's personal website
Most-linked posts?
- My first patch to the Linux kernel2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-19
What Hacker News says?
> "Just don't do that" is the correct approach to errors We have 54 years of empirical data that literally nobody can follow this approach and reach UB-freeness. To stick to the plan is more like the in-debt gambler who just needs to work their system for a little longer, and they'll become rich. By this logic we don't need any traffic rules other than "just don't crash or hit anyone". And we can aspire to an absolu…
Comment linking /posts/first-kernel-patch/
on “Everything in C is undefined behavior”Submitted My first patch to the Linux kernel as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Virtualization: Theory to Silicon as a story · 1 points
HN discussion