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Probably Programming is a personal blog at probablyprogramming.com about programming. Since 2012, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “The Tiniest GIF Ever”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.

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8HN people?
2012–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2016

Most-linked posts?

  1. The Tiniest GIF Ever
    7 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2012-09-09

What Hacker News says?

  1. Still super bloated compared to the tiniest GIF: 47 49 46 38 39 61 01 00 01 00 00 ff 00 2c 00 00 00 00 01 00 01 00 00 02 00 3b http://probablyprogramming.com/2009/03/15/the-tiniest-gif-ev...

    Comment linking /2009/03/15/the-tiniest-gif-ever

    on “The smallest 256x256 single-color PNG file, and where you've seen it (2015)”
  2. Submitted The Tiniest GIF Ever as a story · 204 points

    HN discussion
  3. A Plus, from Morgan Stanley? http://probablyprogramming.com/2009/07/11/the-aplus-programm... https://wiki.c2.com/?AplusLanguage

    Comment linking /2009/07/11/the-aplus-programming-language

    on “The Origin of Emacs in 1976”
  4. Submitted Te tiniest GIF ever as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. Someone should go and update https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spacer.gif , which apparently is at least five bytes larger than needed: http://probablyprogramming.com/2009/03/15/the-tiniest-gif-ev...

    Comment linking /2009/03/15/the-tiniest-gif-ever

    on “What's the smallest file size for a 1 pixel image?”
  6. Submitted The Tiniest GIF Ever (2009) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted The Tiniest GIF Ever (2009) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted The Tiniest GIF Ever (2009) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted The Tiniest GIF Ever (2009) as a story · 1 points

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