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Personal blog · blog.notryan.comprogrammingsystems

notryan is a personal blog at blog.notryan.com about programming and systems. Since 2020, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Show HN: HTTP Blog Server – 100 Lines of C in a Closet”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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10mentions?
7HN people?
2020–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 9 in 2020

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The linked posts cover serving over 100K web pages a day over a slower home internet connection. The only comment is a note about a server bug (text/plain content-type), not the writing.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Show HN: HTTP Blog Server – 100 Lines of C in a Closet
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-05-05

What Hacker News says?

  1. It's working now! But check the content-type for https://blog.notryan.com/ . It's returning text/plain, and I see the html src in firefox instead of the rendered web page..

    Comment linking /

    on “How to Serve over 100K Web Pages a Day on a Slower Home Internet Connection”
  2. Submitted Fun Facts on Producing Minimal HTML as a story · 101 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Show HN: HTTP Blog Server – 100 Lines of C in a Closet as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted I Am a Programmer as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Silencing Hacker News as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Server.c – 100 Lines of C in a Closet as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Silencing Hackernews as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Revel in Its Difficulty as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted HTTP Blog Server: 100 Lines of C in a Closet as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted 100 Lines of C, in a Closet as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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