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Scott Mansfield

Personal blog · blog.sgmansfield.comprogrammingsystems

Scott Mansfield's personal blog at blog.sgmansfield.com covers programming and systems. Since 2016, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Managing Syscall Overhead with Go's Crypto/rand”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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9mentions?
7HN people?
2016–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2016

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for its Go posts, such as one on how to block forever in Go. The only comment is a joke that Go binaries are built to run forever, linking that post.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Managing Syscall Overhead with Go's Crypto/rand
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-06-14

What Hacker News says?

  1. I agree. Golang binaries are great to work with on cloud instances. And they are basically designed to run forever ;) https://blog.sgmansfield.com/2016/06/how-to-block-forever-in...

    Comment linking /2016/06/how-to-block-forever-in-go/

    on “What tech stacks are indie hackers using for their apps, and why?”
  2. Submitted A Foray into Go Assembly Programming as a story · 143 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Managing Syscall Overhead with Go's Crypto/rand as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Nanolog: Super Fast Logging for Go as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted An Analysis of the Top 1000 Go Repositories as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Nanolog: Fast, zero-allocs logging for Go as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Managing syscall Overhead with Go's crypto/rand as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Managing Syscall Overhead with crypto/rand as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Goroutine IDs as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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