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tontinton
Personal blog · tontinton.com/posts · on HN as tontintonprogrammingdata
tontinton is a personal blog at tontinton.com about programming and data. Since 2023, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Database Fundamentals”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link tontinton's post on database fundamentals, in threads about building your own database and a distributed thread-per-core database. One commenter called it a nice blog post.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Database Fundamentals4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-12-15
- Scheduling Internals3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-02-25
- Lance table format explained with simple animations2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-08
What Hacker News says?
https://tontinton.com/posts/database-fundementals/
Comment linking /posts/database-fundementals/
on “Build your own database”Submitted Scheduling Internals as a story · 186 points
HN discussionNice blog post https://tontinton.com/posts/database-fundementals/
Comment linking /posts/database-fundementals/
on “Show HN: Dbeel – A distributed thread-per-core db”Submitted The New Age of Data-Intensive Applications as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scheduling Internals as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scheduling Internals – How async works as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tenochtitlan, 1519 – Experience Aztec's capital in 3D as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lance table format explained with simple animations as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Database Fundamentals as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lance table format explained simply, stupid (Animated) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Database Fundamentals as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
