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Shubhro Saha

Personal blog · shubhro.com · on HN as shbhrsahacareerprogramming

Shubhro Saha's personal blog at shubhro.com covers career and programming. Since 2014, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 50 times, most often “Writing Documentation for Your Team”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-28, and you can follow it by feed.

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50mentions?
7HN people?
2014–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 10 in 2018

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

Why HN links it

HN commenters link his posts on software estimation and on the difference between good and bad writers, mostly as references in link lists or analogies rather than as praise.

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.

The author on HN?

shbhrsaha · 1,075 karma · member since 2012

shubhro@shubhro.com

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Writing Documentation for Your Team
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-02-04
  2. Hacks for Engineering Estimates
    2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-02-02
  3. Software engineers should write
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-12-29

What Hacker News says?

  1. based2 · 2025-12-07
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi_method > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26368011 https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/yes-you-should-estimate/ > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27006853 https://josephmate.github.io/PowersOf2/ Complexity Estimator https://earthly.dev/blog/thought-leaders/ > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27467999 https://jacobian.org/2021/may/20/estimation/ > https://news.ycombina…

    Comment linking /2022/01/30/hacks-engineering-estimates/

    on “Estimates are difficult for developers and product owners”
  2. shbhrsaha · 2018-01-21

    Submitted Brushing up on operating systems and C programming as a story · 422 points

    HN discussion
  3. franciscop · 2014-12-29
    It really reminded me to the differences between good programmers and bad programmers. Seen from Engineers should write [1] [1] http://www.shubhro.com/2014/12/27/software-engineers-should-...

    Comment linking /2014/12/27/software-engineers-should-write/

    on “The Difference Between Good Writers and Bad Writers”
  4. shbhrsaha · 2014-12-29

    Submitted Software engineers should write as a story · 318 points

    HN discussion
  5. shbhrsaha · 2021-12-23

    Submitted Be curious, not judgmental as a story · 257 points

    HN discussion
  6. shbhrsaha · 2022-05-09

    Submitted Hacks for Engineering Estimates as a story · 107 points

    HN discussion
  7. shbhrsaha · 2014-12-20

    Submitted Reverse-engineering the Kayak app with mitmproxy as a story · 73 points

    HN discussion
  8. shbhrsaha · 2022-01-30

    Submitted Show the case against as a story · 40 points

    HN discussion
  9. shbhrsaha · 2021-12-26

    Submitted Debugging Unaligned Project Teams as a story · 33 points

    HN discussion
  10. shbhrsaha · 2014-11-21

    Submitted How a course in operating systems changed me as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  11. shbhrsaha · 2022-01-03

    Submitted Show the case against as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  12. shbhrsaha · 2015-02-06

    Submitted Bringing back the dictaphone as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  13. ben_s · 2024-03-10

    Submitted Writing Documentation for Your Team as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  14. shbhrsaha · 2014-11-13

    Submitted Tips for software engineering internships as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  15. shbhrsaha · 2017-09-13

    Submitted It's easy to criticize other teams as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  16. shbhrsaha · 2016-01-01

    Submitted Things I learned clearing disk space as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  17. shbhrsaha · 2019-07-12

    Submitted Rules for Reading Books as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  18. shbhrsaha · 2018-01-26

    Submitted Searching for wisdom as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  19. shbhrsaha · 2015-02-02

    Submitted E-Ink word processing with Amazon Kindle as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  20. shbhrsaha · 2026-01-27

    Submitted How I manage tasks in 2026 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. kiyanwang · 2024-02-04

    Submitted Writing Documentation for Your Team as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  22. shbhrsaha · 2023-02-22

    Submitted Useful AI Tasks: Hard to Explain, Easy to Verify as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  23. shbhrsaha · 2022-02-02

    Submitted Hacks for engineering estimates as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  24. shbhrsaha · 2020-01-09

    Submitted It's easy to criticize other teams (2017) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  25. shbhrsaha · 2019-12-30

    Submitted Rules for Reading Books as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  26. shbhrsaha · 2019-09-06

    Submitted Rules for Reading Books as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  27. shbhrsaha · 2018-08-07

    Submitted Quick config management with Google Sheets as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  28. shbhrsaha · 2018-06-15

    Submitted The problem with high school computer science as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  29. shbhrsaha · 2018-01-27

    Submitted Google time machine as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  30. shbhrsaha · 2015-01-20

    Submitted Why I use 'I'm Feeling Lucky' for every search as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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