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olano.dev
Personal blog · olano.dev/blog · on HN as facundo_olanoprogrammingai
olano.dev is a personal blog at olano.dev about programming and ai. Since 2023, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 45 times, most often “Software Design Is Knowledge Building”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One comment cites this olano.dev post on code being run more than read, in a thread on compiler hardening defaults, to support its point that legacy projects stay on old compilers. It does not judge 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?
- Software Design Is Knowledge Building3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-12-29
- - -dangerously-skip-reading-code3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-02-16
- Gleam, Coming from Erlang3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-02-25
- Are We Living in a Simulation?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-09-06
- A Pixel Parable2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-12-03
- Tactical tornado is the new default2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-02-06
- Software possession for personal use2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-20
- Augmentation / Replacement2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-05-05
- Code is run more than read2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-12-01
- Quick notes on a brief agentic coding experience2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-17
What Hacker News says?
I second this. I wrote a post around this idea of non chronological blog archiving https://olano.dev/blog/web-anthologists
Comment linking /blog/web-anthologists
on “Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites”Submitted Software Design Is Knowledge Building as a story · 419 points
HN discussionI have the same issue, the chronological nature of feeds kind of breaks this flow. It feels like there’s a missing piece, like a standard to browse older content from a blog. I Wrote a bit about this here: https://olano.dev/blog/web-anthologists/
Comment linking /blog/web-anthologists/
on “Blog Feeds”Submitted Gleam, Coming from Erlang as a story · 226 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK | ARGENTINA (GMT-3) | REMOTE Résumé/CV: https://olano.dev/resume/ GitHub: https://github.com/facundoolano Email: facundo.olano@gmail.com Technologies: Erlang, Elixir/Phoenix, Python (Flask, FastAPI, Django, Celery), Golang, Rust, Clojure, Postgres, Redis, AWS, DataDog, Terraform. Hi, I'm Facundo. I'm a Software Engineer with over 15 years of experience, most recently developing and operating large-scale…
Comment linking /resume/
on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2024)”Submitted From RSS to My Kindle as a story · 169 points
HN discussionGCC/LLVM want projects to use the latest version of their compilers and if they added all this be default it would break millions of projects compiles. Those project maintainers won't just add a million flags to make "legacy project 224" compile, they will just use the last compiler it worked with for eternity. https://olano.dev/2023-11-30-code-is-run-more-than-read/ See that article that's current trending on HN if…
Comment linking /2023-11-30-code-is-run-more-than-read/
on “Compiler Options Hardening Guide for C and C++”Submitted A Pixel Parable as a story · 160 points
HN discussionAuthor here. I'm surprised to see this surfacing now. I just wanted to clarify, since apparently the post doesn't do a good job at it, that what I discussed there is not a methodology I advocate for. The point of the post was: ok, since there are organizations mandating to maximize speed by reducing time spent on typing code (or even mandating to maximize agents usage), is there a way we can meet that requirement wh…
Comment linking /blog/tactical-tornado/
on “- -dangerously-skip-reading-code – olano.dev”Submitted Software possession for personal use as a story · 159 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Note on Essential Complexity as a story · 159 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deconstructing the Role-Playing Video Game as a story · 144 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software possession for personal use as a story · 40 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Software Bookshelf as a story · 39 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unit Testing Principles as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted Code is run more than read (2023) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Balancing Coupling in Software Design as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Are We Living in a Simulation? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Are We Living in a Simulation? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gleam, Coming from Erlang as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Pixel Parable as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software Design Is Knowledge Building as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Are We Living in a Simulation? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quick notes on a brief agentic coding experience as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Augmentation / Replacement as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gleam, coming from Erlang as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software Design Is Knowledge Building as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Pixel Parable as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted My blogging setup is my writing process as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Code is run more than read as a story · 3 points
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