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Schoenitzer.de

Personal blog · schoenitzer.de/blogprogrammingsystems

Schoenitzer.de is a personal blog at schoenitzer.de about programming and systems. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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10mentions?
3HN people?
2012–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers cite this site's Linux kernel statistics page for file counts and lines of code, comparing them with the size of Facebook's git repository. The comments use it as a source only.

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.

What Hacker News says?

  1. pwpwp · 2012-02-03
    Git was designed for the Linux kernel, and it's simply not big: a couple thousand files, broken up into directories of dozens or hundreds of files. http://www.schoenitzer.de/lks/lks_en.html#new_files

    Comment linking /lks/lks_en.html

    on “Facebook hit git performance issue on large repository”
  2. nudin · 2025-02-12

    Submitted Writing a Gimp 3.0 Plugin as a story · 174 points

    HN discussion
  3. zargon · 2012-02-03
    The linux kernel has an order of magnitude fewer files than Facebook's test repository (25,000 in version 2.6.27, according to http://www.schoenitzer.de/lks/lks_en.html ) and only 9 million lines of text. This is on the largish side for a single project, but if Facebook likes to keep all their work in single repo then it isn't too difficult to go way beyond those stats. Think of keeping all GNU projects in a single…

    Comment linking /lks/lks_en.html

    on “Facebook hit git performance issue on large repository”
  4. nudin · 2018-03-18

    Submitted Linux Raw Sockets as a story · 169 points

    HN discussion
  5. nudin · 2021-12-08

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    HN discussion
  6. nudin · 2022-01-29

    Submitted Git: Use dash to change back to previous branch as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
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    Submitted Shorter Hacks 16: IPython Autoreload as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. nudin · 2020-06-20

    Submitted So Much Nothing as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. nudin · 2019-01-08

    Submitted Asking Gender in Surveys – doing it right as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. nudin · 2018-08-31

    Submitted How to read a vimscript stacktrace as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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