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Personal blog · bitshifter.github.ioprogrammingsystems

shifting bits is a personal blog at bitshifter.github.io about programming and systems. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Yak shaving conditional compilation in Rust”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
4HN people?
2020–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2020

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for its notes on using the rr record-and-replay debugger with Rust. The one comment only points to the Rust-specific page as an example of rr being used that way.

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. Yak shaving conditional compilation in Rust
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-05-11

What Hacker News says?

  1. People use it for rust: https://bitshifter.github.io/rr+rust/index.html#1

    Comment linking /rr+rust/index.html

    on “rr – record and replay debugger for C/C++”
  2. Submitted Yak shaving conditional compilation in Rust as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Yak shaving ifdef-style conditional compilation in Rust as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Yak shaving conditional compilation in Rust as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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