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Theodoros Chatzigiannakis

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Theodoros Chatzigiannakis's personal blog at blog.tchatzigiannakis.com covers programming and systems. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.

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3mentions?
3HN people?
2018–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2018

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Theodoros Chatzigiannakis's posts on undefined behavior in C, which commenters cite as the explanation of how undefined behavior leads to misreading code.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

A programming blog by Theodoros Chatzigiannakis.

Most-linked posts?

  1. /undefined-behavior-can-literally-erase-your-hard-disk/
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-06-21

What Hacker News says?

  1. Sounds like you're interested specifically in https://blog.tchatzigiannakis.com/undefined-behavior-can-lit...

    Comment linking /undefined-behavior-can-literally-erase-your-hard-disk/

    on “Undefined behavior in C is a reading error”
  2. There's also this infamous example of UB: https://kristerw.blogspot.com/2017/09/why-undefined-behavior... (explanation: https://blog.tchatzigiannakis.com/undefined-behavior-can-lit... )

    Comment linking /undefined-behavior-can-literally-erase-your-hard-disk/

    on “Three proposals for the C standard WG14”
  3. I think you're referring to this one: https://blog.tchatzigiannakis.com/undefined-behavior-can-lit... Bonus read: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140627-00/?p=63...

    Comment linking /undefined-behavior-can-literally-erase-your-hard-disk/

    on “Turning off Rust's borrow checker completely (2022)”

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