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Thomas
Personal blog · thomasw.dev/postsystemshardware
Thomas is a personal blog at thomasw.dev about systems and hardware. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for technical posts on terminating processes with gdb and code injection, including a post on making a process kill look like an accident. The comment cites it as a worked example.
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.
What Hacker News says?
syscall is only available if gdb is able to resolve libc. So for example this won’t work to stop a process running in a container, since gdb won’t be able to see the libc in the container’s filesystem. I did make my own variant using gdb, though, nicely explained here: https://thomasw.dev/post/killbutmakeitlooklikeanaccident/
Comment linking /post/killbutmakeitlooklikeanaccident/
on “Pseudo Graceful Process Termination Through Code Injection”Submitted Emulating the Early Macintosh Floppy Drive as a story · 91 points
HN discussionSubmitted Digital echoes: open bus behavior on the compact Macintosh as a story · 65 points
HN discussionSubmitted Installing A/UX 1.1 like it's the 90s as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kfence – Detecting memory bugs in production kernels as a story · 1 points
HN discussion