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Steinar H. Gunderson

Personal blog · blog.sesse.net/blogprogrammingsystemshardware

Steinar H. Gunderson's personal blog at blog.sesse.net covers programming, systems and hardware. Since 2011, 33 different Hacker News readers have linked it 45 times, most often “Migrating Away from Bcachefs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.

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45mentions?
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33HN people?
2011–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 9 in 2025

Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Steinar Gunderson's technical posts: a developer's note on Google's snappy compression, an approach to patch requests over SSH, and an explanation of why prefixing IPv4 would not help.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Migrating Away from Bcachefs
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2025-01-20
  2. Pull Requests via Git Push
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-07-15
  3. AV1 live streaming: Muxing and streaming
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-08-28
  4. IPv6 non-alternatives: DJB's article, 13 years later
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-01-06

What Hacker News says?

  1. A note from a developer: http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2011-03-22-19-24_snappy.html

    Comment linking /blog/tech/2011-03-22-19-24_snappy.html

    on “Google releases snappy, the compression library used in Bigtable”
  2. Submitted Leaving MySQL as a story · 626 points

    HN discussion
  3. This is another interesting approach: https://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2024-07-15-13-04_pull_reque...

    Comment linking /blog/tech/2024-07-15-13-04_pull_requests_via_git_push.html

    on “Git-PR: patch requests over SSH”
  4. Submitted The sad state of Linux Wi-Fi as a story · 432 points

    HN discussion
  5. One theory I had was that blogrolls were common previously and allowed for cluster navigation. My friends and I certainly had these pointing to each other because why wouldn't you? The big bloggers on HN I see are tptacek, rachelbythebay, and simonwillison and none of them have a blogroll. General wisdom in website SEO etc. is to keep the user on your page and not send them elsewhere and I thought that perhaps many…

    Comment linking /blog

    on “The effects of algorithms on the public discourse”
  6. Submitted Why does software development take so long? as a story · 296 points

    HN discussion
  7. There was a longer article on this, linked a few weeks back (actually written in 2002). TL;DR: this would work, except for a completely minor issue: a large-scale HW+SW overhaul of everything up and down the net stack would be necessary before this extension would work (just as with IPv6). Therefore, no significant benefit over IPv6 (plus a bunch of brand new, IPv4.1 specific problems). https://blog.sesse.net/blog/t…

    Comment linking /blog/tech/2016-01-06-20-54_ipv6_non_alternatives_djbs_article_13_years_later.html

    on “Why can't we just prefix IPv4”
  8. Submitted Modern Perfect Hashing as a story · 125 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Migrating Away from Bcachefs as a story · 83 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted IPv6 non-alternatives: DJB's article, 13 years later as a story · 78 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted AV1 live streaming: Muxing and streaming as a story · 28 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Security properties provided by the Signal protocol as a story · 17 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Pull Requests via Git Push as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Two Chinese Video Encoders as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted TCP optimization for video streaming at The Gathering as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted FOSDEM video streaming, post-mortem as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Migrating Away from Bcachefs as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Migrating Away from Bcachefs as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Migrating Away from Bcachefs as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted SIMD Detection of Nested Quotes as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted An unexpectedly hard question as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Pull Requests via `Git Push` as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Faster manual page database indexing for Debian as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted 3G-SDI signal support as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted TCP optimization for video streaming, part 2 as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted Modern Perfect Hashing as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Bruteforcing Pwgen Passwords as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Thoughts on AlphaZero as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted JSONB in PostgreSQL as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted Your custom rounding code is wrong as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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