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Paul Jakma

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Paul Jakma's personal blog at paul.jakma.org covers systems and programming. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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3HN people?
2013–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2013

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

Why HN links it

The only comment quotes an analysis of IPv4 address allocation and reclamation, in a thread titled "Why IPv6 is the only way forward". It does not discuss this blog's 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.

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What Hacker News says?

  1. > Or ... people can use the DoD/Mod and assorted other space to get their IPv4 allocations. Someone did the math on this: > Now, average daily assignment rates have been running at above 10 /8s per year, for 2010, and approached 15 /8s towards the end. This means any reclamation effort has to recover at least 15 /8s per year just to break even on 2010’s growth. That’s 5.9% of the total IPv4 address space, or 6.8% of…

    Comment linking /2011/02/03/why-dont-we-just-reclaim-unused-ipv4-addresses/

    on “Why IPv6 is the only way forward”
  2. Submitted Are IPv6 addresses too small? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Killing Free Software with Kindness (2009) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Code and error handling strategies and FSMs as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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