Top all-time · #5655
sebsite
Personal blog · sebsite.pw/wprogrammingsystems
sebsite is a personal blog at sebsite.pw about programming and systems. Since 2022, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “A neat trick I found for reusing physical memory”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment links to the author's homepage and praises its design rather than any writing. The linked thread is about an ambiguity in C89 that will never be fixed.
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?
- A neat trick I found for reusing physical memory3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-10-23
- Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-08-10
- A hacky f*d up way to portably access errno from outside of C2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-23
- Python string literals are kinda funny2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-06
- The perils of parsing type inference declarations in C2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-25
- Neither GCC nor Clang are compliant with standard C++2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-18
- No portable way to detect string-to-float conversion errors in standard C2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-10
- Two Case Studies of NaN2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-10
What Hacker News says?
Visit the homepage https://sebsite.pw/ That's a nice bit of understated 90s design right there
Comment linking /
on “An ambiguity in c89 which will never be fixed”Submitted Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird as a story · 190 points
HN discussionSubmitted Your C is not standard C as a story · 135 points
HN discussionSubmitted No portable way to detect string-to-float conversion errors in standard C as a story · 80 points
HN discussionSubmitted Yet another place where a Linux man page is inaccurate as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Neither GCC nor Clang are compliant with standard C++ as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A neat trick I found for reusing physical memory as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted String-to-Float Conversion Error Checking in Standard C Is Not Portable as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted An ambiguity in c89 which will never be fixed as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sizeof is surprisingly difficult to parse in C as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The perils of parsing type inference declarations in C as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A bunch of stuff I used to not know about K&R C as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Two Case Studies of NaN as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lua's Grammar Is Ambiguous as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A hacky f*d up way to portably access errno from outside of C as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A neat trick I found for reusing physical memory as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A hacky fucked up way to portably access errno from outside of C as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A neat trick I found for reusing physical memory as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Notes on how glibc and musl handle math errors as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Python string literals are kinda funny as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Python string literals are kinda funny as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The perils of parsing type inference declarations in C as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Neither GCC nor Clang are compliant with standard C++ as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I've been thinking about null pointers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Two Case Studies of NaN as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
