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Thorsten Hans

Personal blog · thorsten-hans.com · on HN as thorstenhansprogrammingsystems

Thorsten Hans's personal blog at thorsten-hans.com covers programming and systems. Since 2017, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “ZSH Aliases”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-24, and you can follow it by feed.

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14mentions?
5HN people?
2017–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2020

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Thorsten Hans's post on five types of ZSH aliases, which covers shell productivity and oh-my-zsh setups. One commenter called it a nice article that gives real productivity gains.

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.

Tales and Stories about WebAssembly, Edge-Native, Cloud-Native and Distributed Architectures by Thorsten Hans

The author on HN?

thorstenhans · 149 karma · member since 2017

blogging at https://thorsten-hans.com

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. ZSH Aliases
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-26

What Hacker News says?

  1. Nice article, on ZSH too (oh-my-zsh). Real productivity. BTW. Anyone is really using the colorscheme like in article ? https://thorsten-hans.com/assets/images/posts/2020/zsh-alias...

    Comment linking /assets/images/posts/2020/zsh-aliases-1.png

    on “ZSH Aliases”
  2. Submitted ZSH Aliases as a story · 388 points

    HN discussion
  3. The actual link for this submission is https://thorsten-hans.com/5-types-of-zsh-aliases if your ad blocker is barfing on whatever bitly-based tracking doodad was submitted instead.

    Comment linking /5-types-of-zsh-aliases

    on “ZSH Aliases”
  4. Submitted Frictionless zsh And oh-my-zsh Management With Antigen as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted How to use Azure Cosmos DB as a key-value store for Fermyon Spin as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Spin Router for Rust: First Glance as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Master configuration data in Fermyon Spin as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted CRUD in WebAssembly with Fermyon Spin and MySQL as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Let's Build a CLI in Go with Cobra as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted How to Access Kubernetes Dashboard on RBAC Enabled Azure Kubernetes as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted 6 Steps to Run .NET Core Apps in Azure Kubernetes as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Container Metrics with Ctop as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Azure Arc Enables Kubernetes: Digital Ocean Kubernetes in Azure as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Hybrid Kubernetes Cluster on Azure Container Services as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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