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Tales From a Core File

Personal blog · fingolfin.org/blogsystemsprogramming

Tales From a Core File is a personal blog at fingolfin.org about systems and programming. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Lessons from the Unix Stdio ABI: 40 Years Later”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
4HN people?
2015–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2020

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

Why HN links it

Only one comment links here, and it does not discuss fingolfin.org's writing. It cites Joyent's Triton container networking material on Crossbow, VXLAN and layer 2 networking.

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. Lessons from the Unix Stdio ABI: 40 Years Later
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-03-27

What Hacker News says?

  1. For whatever it's worth, the Crossbow technology remains at the core of our Triton container stack[1] -- and we have extended it significantly by adding VXLAN and virtual layer 2 networking.[2][3] One of the comments we have heard from many early Triton adopters is that they enjoy having IP addresses, networking stacks and bare-metal performance. ;) [1] https://www.joyent.com/blog/triton-docker-and-the-best-of-al...…

    Comment linking /illumos/talks/sdn.pdf

    on “Weave is kinda slow”
  2. Submitted Lessons from the Unix Stdio ABI: 40 Years Later as a story · 51 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Lessons from the Unix Stdio ABI: 40 Years Later as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Lessons from the Unix Stdio ABI as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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