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rule 11 reader
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rule 11 reader is a personal blog at rule11.tech about systems and programming. Since 2018, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Obfuscating Complexity Considered Harmful”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one comment, in a thread on migrating from Supabase. It describes Supabase features that lag behind plain Postgres and does not assess the linked writing.
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.
Thinking, metathinking, and technology skills for network engineers
Most-linked posts?
- Obfuscating Complexity Considered Harmful2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-14
What Hacker News says?
(I can empathize with the supabase team that it's probably hard to hear this kind of feedback.) I also had a tough time working w/ an app someone else built on Supabase. We kept bumping up against "I know feature X exists in postgres, but it's 'coming soon' in Supabase." Felt like they were just wrapping UIs around things that already existed via CLI/API. IIRC specifically some event trigger/webhook behavior was a b…
Comment linking /obfuscating-complexity-considered-harmful/
on “Migrating from Supabase”Submitted Obfuscating Complexity Considered Harmful as a story · 29 points
HN discussionSubmitted History of Networking: Vint Cerf [video] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Technologies That Didn't: CLNS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Hedge as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Hedge #76 the Taxonomy of Indecision as a story · 1 points
HN discussion