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Skroutz Engineering
Company blog · engineering.skroutz.gr/blogprogrammingweb
Skroutz Engineering is the company blog at engineering.skroutz.gr, writing about programming and web. Since 2015, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 30 times, most often “Uncovering a 24-year-old bug in the Linux Kernel”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Skroutz Engineering for a reverse-engineering write-up of a 24-year-old TCP sequence-number bug and for a post on its bare-metal infrastructure. The comments only cite these posts.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Uncovering a 24-year-old bug in the Linux Kernel5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-02-11
- Streamlining the Rails upgrade process on a large monolith2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-10-22
- [SEO Case Study] How we optimized Crawl Budget by removing 72% of indexed URLs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-10-31
- The infrastructure behind one of the most popular sites in Greece2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-04-22
What Hacker News says?
> Isn't it surprising that modulo arithmetic, as already employed successfully in TCP sequence numbers and the like, still seems to be incorrectly implemented today Even in TCP sequence numbers, it can be implemented incorrectly. https://engineering.skroutz.gr/blog/uncovering-a-24-year-old...
Comment linking /blog/uncovering-a-24-year-old-bug-in-the-linux-kernel/
on “Reverse Engineer’s Perspective on the Boeing 787 ‘51 days’ Directive”Submitted Uncovering a 24-year-old bug in the Linux Kernel (2021) as a story · 497 points
HN discussionSkroutz[1], a Greek price comparison website, uses a bare metal infrastructure[2] and has a strong engineering culture[3]. Skroutz is a success story in Greece and looks pretty solid. [1]: https://www.skroutz.gr/ [2]: https://engineering.skroutz.gr/blog/skroutz-infrastructure-2... [3]: https://engineering.skroutz.gr/blog/uncovering-a-24-year-old...
Comment linking /blog/uncovering-a-24-year-old-bug-in-the-linux-kernel/
on “Ask HN: Any companies successfully using dedicated servers instead of cloud?”Submitted Uncovering a 24-year-old bug in the Linux Kernel as a story · 497 points
HN discussionSubmitted Working with the ELK stack as a story · 87 points
HN discussionSubmitted Speeding Up Our Build Pipelines as a story · 59 points
HN discussionSubmitted How we migrated our JavaScript stack to Webpack as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rewriting a web analytics tracking infrastructure in Go as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Entropy changes in Debian or 'why a VM boots in 5 minutes?' as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted The infrastructure behind one of the most popular sites in Greece as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing Kafka to a Rails application as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted [SEO Case Study] How we optimized Crawl Budget by removing 72% of indexed URLs as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Searching at Skroutz: From Kafka to Elasticsearch as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Implementing a fuzzy suggestion mechanism at Skroutz as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fast Rails Debugging with Breakpoints in Production HTTP Requests as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Skroutz infrastructure at a glance as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Streamlining the Rails upgrade process on a large monolith as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted We optimized our Google Crawl Budget by removing 72% of indexed URLs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted CSS at Skroutz as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A 24-year-old bug in the Linux Kernel (2021) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Monolith Diaries: Upgrading Rails as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How We Classify Products at Skroutz as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Journey to Delivering a Faster Experience at Skroutz.gr as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How we eliminated content repaints caused by CSS animations as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The analytics of the largest greek eshop aggregator as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Skroutz Redesign: how we designed and implemented our own Design System as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Optimizing Continuous Integration at Skroutz as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Monolith Diaries: Upgrading Rails as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted On prototyping as a story · 1 points
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