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Tomasz Wisniewski

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Tomasz Wisniewski's personal blog at twdev.blog covers programming and systems. Since 2023, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Experimenting with Robin Hood Hashing”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-01, and you can follow it by feed.

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14mentions?
9HN people?
2023–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2023

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

Why HN links it

Linked in a thread on why CMake is criticised, pointing to the author's 2022 post about moving to Meson as an alternative build system.

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.

C++ & Golang software engineering blog by Tomasz Wisniewski. Lessons learned and tips and tricks about modern software development with C++ and Golang.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Experimenting with Robin Hood Hashing
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-11-23
  2. The state of C++ package management: The big three
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-04

What Hacker News says?

  1. mpawelski · 2023-02-28
    > I strongly suggest to transition to meson, but that’s a topic for another post. and the author wrote about it too: https://twdev.blog/2022/09/meson/

    Comment linking /2022/09/meson/

    on “Why CMake sucks (2021)”
  2. deviantbit · 2023-02-28

    Submitted Why CMake sucks (2021) as a story · 48 points

    HN discussion
  3. signa11 · 2025-11-23

    Submitted Experimenting with Robin Hood Hashing as a story · 26 points

    HN discussion
  4. ibobev · 2025-12-19

    Submitted Golang's Defer in C (Kind Of) as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. todsacerdoti · 2025-11-23

    Submitted Experimenting with Robin Hood Hashing as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. jandeboevrie · 2024-09-08

    Submitted Tthe state of C++ package management: The build systems as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. jandeboevrie · 2024-08-04

    Submitted The state of C++ package management: The big three as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. PaulHoule · 2024-08-14

    Submitted The state of C++ package management: The big three as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. niepiekm · 2023-09-10

    Submitted My C++ setup for personal projects as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. harporoeder · 2023-03-01

    Submitted Manipulating /proc files as structured data as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. ibobev · 2026-02-02

    Submitted Shell quick tips: Bash incognito mode as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. ibobev · 2025-11-26

    Submitted Experimenting with Robin Hood Hashing as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. jandeboevrie · 2024-08-23

    Submitted I avoid using `default` and inline functions in my class declarations as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. jandeboevrie · 2023-05-16

    Submitted #1 WebAssembly and C++: Baby steps as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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