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Pavel Yosifovich

Personal blog · scorpiosoftware.netsystemsprogramming

Pavel Yosifovich's personal blog at scorpiosoftware.net covers systems and programming. Since 2019, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “The Quest for the Ultimate GUI Framework”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-25, and you can follow it by feed.

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16mentions?
8HN people?
2019–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2023

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters cite Pavel Yosifovich's posts on Windows internals, such as Windows 10 desktops and AppContainer, as background for points about Windows app isolation and the OS layers.

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.

Adventures in Coding, Internals and Learning

Most-linked posts?

  1. The Quest for the Ultimate GUI Framework
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-04-22
  2. Windows 10 Desktops vs. Sysinternals Desktops
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-02-21

What Hacker News says?

  1. ryacko · 2019-08-14
    https://scorpiosoftware.net/2019/02/17/windows-10-desktops-v... It depends what level of the OS you’re talking about, but the clean separation is not so clear.

    Comment linking /2019/02/17/windows-10-desktops-vs-sysinternals-desktops/

    on “Down the Rabbit-Hole”
  2. ingve · 2025-02-08

    Submitted Writing a simple windows driver in Rust as a story · 248 points

    HN discussion
  3. Avery3R · 2023-05-24
    AppContainers have supported win32 from the start, not just WinRT. See: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/secauthz/app... https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/userenv/... https://scorpiosoftware.net/2019/01/15/fun-with-appcontainer...

    Comment linking /2019/01/15/fun-with-appcontainers/

    on “Win32 App Isolation”
  4. thunderbong · 2024-02-21

    Submitted Projected File System as a story · 70 points

    HN discussion
  5. ingve · 2022-03-21

    Submitted Threads, Threads, and More Threads as a story · 39 points

    HN discussion
  6. dave9000 · 2025-11-25

    Submitted The Quest for the Ultimate GUI Framework as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  7. ingve · 2025-02-23

    Submitted Introduction to eBPF for Windows as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. walterbell · 2019-02-21

    Submitted Windows 10 Desktops vs. Sysinternals Desktops as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. ingve · 2024-08-05

    Submitted Rust: The Programming Language? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. ingve · 2024-03-26

    Submitted The Power of UI Automation as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. ingve · 2023-08-25

    Submitted Writing Your Own Programming Language as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. fork-bomber · 2023-04-24

    Submitted The Quest for the Ultimate GUI Framework as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. mellosouls · 2023-04-22

    Submitted The Quest for the Ultimate GUI Framework as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. ingve · 2023-03-16

    Submitted Minimal Executables as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. ingve · 2022-05-14

    Submitted Zombie Processes as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. ingve · 2020-03-15

    Submitted How can I close a handle in another Windows process? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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