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Personal blog · randthoughts.github.iosystemsprogramming

Random thoughts is a personal blog at randthoughts.github.io about systems and programming. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Little rant about GNOME's file manager (a.k.a. Nautilus)”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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6mentions?
3HN people?
2022–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2022

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for a rant and write-up about thumbnails and GNOME/Linux. One commenter called it a really good writeup on that topic.

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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Most-linked posts?

  1. Little rant about GNOME's file manager (a.k.a. Nautilus)
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-04-10

What Hacker News says?

  1. yeuxardents · 2022-08-28Recommends
    Theres a really good rant/writeup about thumbnails and gnome/linux. https://randthoughts.github.io/little-rant-about-gnomes-file...

    Comment linking /little-rant-about-gnomes-file-manager-aka-nautilus/

    on “Samba on Linux the Easy Way”
  2. Submitted Little rant about GNOME's file manager (a.k.a. Nautilus) as a story · 175 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted I tried Paragon's ntfs3 and it didn't go well as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Little rant about GNOME's file manager (a.k.a. Nautilus) as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Simulating memory load with fio as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Random wallpaper with just bash and systemd as a story · 1 points

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