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Red Hat Developer is the company blog at developers.redhat.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2015, 419 different Hacker News readers have linked it 690 times, most often “No-Cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux Individual Developer Subscription: FAQs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.

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690mentions?
0recommend?
419HN people?
2015–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 107 in 2019

Rarely recommended · 0 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Red Hat Developer posts on Linux, containers (Podman, systemd, Docker), RHEL, GCC and compilers, and Flatpak, mostly as supporting sources for their own points.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 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. No-Cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux Individual Developer Subscription: FAQs
    9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2022-08-11
  2. Static Analysis in GCC 10
    7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2020-03-26
  3. RedHat Enterprise Linux 9 released
    6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2019-05-07
  4. /blog/2018/11/14/python-in-rhel-8/
    6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2018-11-15
  5. How the GNU C Library handles backward compatibility
    6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-05-22
  6. Static analysis updates in GCC 11
    5 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2021-01-28
  7. Introduction to Linux interfaces for virtual networking
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-10-31
  8. /blog/2016/03/31/no-cost-rhel-developer-subscription-now-available/
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-12-12
  9. Speed up your Python using Rust
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2017-11-16
  10. Mir: A lightweight JIT compiler project
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-01-20

What Hacker News says?

  1. In C# and other .NET languages, you'd use this: https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/11/07/dotnet-special... Many of these are named Windows-centric because of the history of the API. But where possible, they still map to something reasonable elsewhere. Looking at the mapping table, I can't think of anything it doesn't cover.

    Comment linking /blog/2018/11/07/dotnet-special-folder-api-linux/

    on “Dotfile madness”
  2. Submitted Transitioning from Docker to Podman as a story · 466 points

    HN discussion
  3. To add to the article: systemd integration works in the other way too! Running systemd in a Docker container is a pain. It's much easier in Podman: https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/04/24/how-to-run-sys... (Most people use containers in a limited way, where they should do just one thing and shouldn't require systemd. OTOH I run them as isolated developer containers, and it's just so much easier to run systemd…

    Comment linking /blog/2019/04/24/how-to-run-systemd-in-a-container

    on “I ditched Docker for Podman”
  4. Submitted Improvements to static analysis in GCC 14 as a story · 396 points

    HN discussion
  5. Some functions are missing which would normally cause a warning with most linters and static security analysis tools (e.g. the atoX family, mktemp, etc ...). Problem is most people I know don't run external linters (maintaining good linting rules is hard to scale in larger projects and in my >3 decades of writing C only few companies[0] I've seen managed the linting rules as part as their "definition of done"). Whil…

    Comment linking /blog/2021/01/28/static-analysis-updates-in-gcc-11/

    on “Git's list of banned C functions”
  6. Submitted Static Analysis in GCC 10 as a story · 394 points

    HN discussion
  7. memccpy? Most platforms have it, and it's being added to C2X. See https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/08/12/efficient-stri...

    Comment linking /blog/2019/08/12/efficient-string-copying-and-concatenation-in-c/

    on “Git's list of banned C functions”
  8. Submitted Speed up your Python using Rust as a story · 291 points

    HN discussion
  9. > But [they do]( https://developers.redhat.com/products/rhel/download ). A subscription buys you updates and support. RHEL itself is free. That's true in a literal-but-useless sense. Developers-RHEL might be bit-identical to real-RHEL at some dates, but as a product it's of course very very different due to lack of interim updates. And that's aside of the smaller speedbumps of registration and having to involve Lega…

    Comment linking /products/rhel/download

    on “Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder”
  10. Submitted Tips for reviewing code you don’t like as a story · 282 points

    HN discussion
  11. > 1. Red Hat Inc. does not want people to build and/or distribute gratis RHEL8 or clones. It would be trivial to just put the actual RHEL8 iso as an unsupported download on their ftp/www server and sell the support separately, like Oracle or Canonical do. Instead, they kept this ridiculous make work project called CentOS around, that involved non-trivial manual labor meticulously rebranding RHEL into RedHat owned Ce…

    Comment linking /products/rhel/download

    on “Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder”
  12. Submitted Why Kubernetes Is the New Application Server as a story · 281 points

    HN discussion
  13. Looks like a Plus Feature, or in deed much config: https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/10/08/configuring-ng...

    Comment linking /blog/2018/10/08/configuring-nginx-keycloak-oauth-oidc

    on “What are your most used self-hosted applications?”
  14. Submitted The future of Java and OpenJDK updates without Oracle support as a story · 262 points

    HN discussion
  15. > The risk of unpatched vulnerabilities If a company as 'small' as (pre-IBM) Red Hat can afford to support Python 2.7, then so can Apple: * https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/11/14/python-in-rhel... * https://access.redhat.com/solutions/4455511 Further, if Debian has the resources to support Python 2.x, then so does multi-trillion dollar company of Apple: * https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=python2 If…

    Comment linking /blog/2018/11/14/python-in-rhel-8-3

    on “Apple removes Python 2.7 in macOS 12.3 beta”
  16. Submitted Usability Improvements in GCC 15 as a story · 259 points

    HN discussion
  17. Flatpak is confirmed to work on 28 Linux distros, and is pre-installed on 9 of them: https://www.flatpak.org/setup . Red Hat Enterprise Linux is committing to a 10 year support lifecycle for its Flatpak runtimes: https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2020/08/12/introducing-th... AppImage just works on any Linux distribution. There are no external dependencies, since the package bundles all of the dependencies and there…

    Comment linking /blog/2020/08/12/introducing-the-red-hat-flatpak-runtime-for-desktop-containers

    on “I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple”
  18. Submitted Usability Improvements in GCC 9 as a story · 235 points

    HN discussion
  19. It is actually the oposite on Linux. You compile on older distro (e.g. CentOS 6), and it will work on later versions, (CentOS 7). https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/08/01/how-the-gnu-c-...

    Comment linking /blog/2019/08/01/how-the-gnu-c-library-handles-backward-compatibility

    on “Apple says they're removing my game because it's more than 2 years old”
  20. Submitted Making memcpy(NULL, NULL, 0) well-defined as a story · 234 points

    HN discussion
  21. I don't know anything about the JVM and my experience with JVM-based languages is incredibly limited, but isn't that the essence of the Loom Project? https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/06/19/project-loom-l... https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rpressler/loom/Loom-Proposal.ht...

    Comment linking /blog/2019/06/19/project-loom-lightweight-java-threads/

    on “A History of Clojure [pdf]”
  22. Submitted Shenandoah in OpenJDK 17: Sub-millisecond GC pauses as a story · 226 points

    HN discussion
  23. IIRC commercial support for GCC is included with some RHEL and SLES subscriptions (probably all except the lowest-cost "desktop"). Red Hat also has a Developer Toolset product that includes a (more recent) complete native toolchain, and SUSE has a similar SLES 12 Toolchain Module / SLES 15 Development Tools Module . https://developers.redhat.com/products/developertoolset/over... https://www.suse.com/c/suse-linux-ess…

    Comment linking /products/developertoolset/overview

    on “IBM Open-Sources Power Chip Instruction Set”
  24. Submitted OpenJDK now available for Windows as a story · 198 points

    HN discussion
  25. GCC's C, C++ and Fortran frontends are commercial products of at least Red Hat and SuSE, for example see https://developers.redhat.com/products/developertoolset/over... and https://suse.com/c/suse-linux-essentials-where-are-the-compi... GCC's Go frontend is still commercially supported as part of RHEL7 but was replaced by the more popular Go implementation in later versions. GCC's Java frontend used to be commercial…

    Comment linking /products/developertoolset/overview

    on “Make LLVM Fast Again”
  26. Submitted GCC's new fortification level: The gains and costs (2022) as a story · 183 points

    HN discussion
  27. In March, vLLM picked up some of the improvements in the DeepSeek paper. Through these, vLLM v0.7.3's DeepSeek performance jumped to about 3x+ of what it was before [1]. What's exciting is that there's still so much room for improvement. We benchmark around 5K total tokens/s with the sharegpt dataset and 12K total token/s with random 2000/100, using vLLM and under high concurrency. DeepSeek-V3/R1 Inference System Ov…

    Comment linking /articles/2025/03/19/how-we-optimized-vllm-deepseek-r1

    on “The path to open-sourcing the DeepSeek inference engine”
  28. Submitted Mir: A lightweight JIT compiler project as a story · 183 points

    HN discussion
  29. RedHat provides developer subscriptions to their products: https://developers.redhat.com/articles/getting-red-hat-devel...

    Comment linking /articles/getting-red-hat-developer-subscription-what-rhel-users-need-know

    on “CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream”
  30. Submitted Instant replay: Debugging C and C++ programs with rr as a story · 181 points

    HN discussion

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