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Ram Rachum
Personal blog · blog.ram.rachum.comprogrammingwriting
Ram Rachum writes Tumblr, a personal blog at blog.ram.rachum.com about programming and writing. Since 2012, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 36 times, most often “Symlinks and hardlinks, move over, make room for reflinks”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in threads on Debian's package repositories versus GitHub projects and on a Python cryptanalysis tools collection. The comments discuss those topics and the commenters' own experiences, not the writing.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Symlinks and hardlinks, move over, make room for reflinks3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-06-08
- Useful Python syntax that nobody knows about3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-06-24
- The interactive homebrew encryption challenge2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-07-21
What Hacker News says?
Debian repositories are not gateless, in that you can't just create a repository with a text file in it and call it a project. You have to be sponsored, which mean you got to have some working code that is useful for someone. Or to take a statitic look, 2 out of 3 forks on github are empty[1]. The quality per "project" on github is order of magnitude less than on debian. You can test this out by randomly picking git…
Comment linking /post/4472104984/2-out-of-3-github-forks-are-completely-empty
on “Clang and FSF's strategy”Submitted Indescribable numbers: The theorem that made me fall in love with math as a story · 163 points
HN discussionWhen I approached this[1] I googled for Python tools for playing with cryptanalysis and found this to be completely irrelevant to what I was trying to do. A small library of NumPy-based functions, on the other hand, did an excellent job. I don't know how this fares when it comes to blackbox crypto pen-testing, but I must admit I shudder at the thought of blackbox crypto pen-testing. [1] http://blog.ram.rachum.com/po…
Comment linking /post/56061414423/the-interactive-homebrew-encryption-challenge
on “Bletchley – A Collection of Practical Cryptanalysis Tools”Submitted AeroFS is x87 faster than Dropbox in LAN syncing [video] as a story · 33 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cute riddle: Four kids holding one toy balloon as a story · 24 points
HN discussionSubmitted Developers: When using Frecency, please consider the context as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Useful Python syntax that nobody knows about as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can someone break my weak home-brew encryption? as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Symlinks and hardlinks, move over, make room for reflinks as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted The interactive homebrew encryption challenge as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted I love Shpaml (HTML abstraction language) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Support Py2+3 in two separate codebases: How to do it and why it’s great as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The mathematics of catching a ride as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Phone companies: Please send me my voice messages via email as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Symlinks, Hardlinks and Reflinks as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Saudi ministry of education adopts Python for use in state high-schools as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted $50 offered to the first person who solves my encryption challenge as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted GarlicSim is dead, long live Python Toolbox as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Symlinks and hardlinks, move over, make room for reflinks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted First release of Combi, a Pythonic package for combinatorics as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fun with etymology as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making order in chaos: The good way and the bad way as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The wall as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The interactive homebrew encryption challenge as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Concise explanation of why programming is fun as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On changing the world as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Improving Python exception chaining with raise-from as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Improving Python exception chaining with raise-from as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Startup lesson learned: Work vertically before you work horizontally as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Code comments that I find helpful as a story · 1 points
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