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Tuan-Anh Tran
Personal blog · tuananh.net · on HN as tuananhprogrammingsystems
Tuan-Anh Tran's personal blog at tuananh.net covers programming and systems. Since 2020, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 32 times, most often “Why your next mobile app is probably headless”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-06, 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 this blog's posts on AI-assisted code and relicensing, where 'clean room' is used, and on Docker BuildKit. The comments cite these posts for a term-usage point and an image claim.
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?
- Why your next mobile app is probably headless3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-03-20
- We use Kubernetes and spot instances to reduce EC2 billing up to 80%2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-02-21
- Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-05
- BuildKit: Docker's Hidden Gem That Can Build Almost Anything2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-25
What Hacker News says?
not very high a previous post of mine got 500 points and stay #1 for a few hours. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22410448 traffic from it looks like this https://tuananh.net/2020/03/02/traffic-from-top-post-on-hack...
Comment linking /2020/03/02/traffic-from-top-post-on-hacker-news/
on “The End of the Redis Adventure”Submitted We use Kubernetes and spot instances to reduce EC2 billing up to 80% as a story · 514 points
HN discussionhttps://tuananh.net I wrote about cloud native, homelab, mechanical keyboard mostly. no main theme, just whatever I'm interested in at the time.
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on “Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?”Submitted Cutting down AWS cost by $150k per year simply by shutting things off as a story · 191 points
HN discussionThis is how you do it with Hugo https://tuananh.net/2025/02/13/lite-youtube-embed-for-hugo/
Comment linking /2025/02/13/lite-youtube-embed-for-hugo/
on “Google Lighthouse recommends not embedding YouTube videos directly”Submitted Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite as a story · 18 points
HN discussionif anyone wants to know how, i wrote about it here https://tuananh.net/2024/01/21/reproducibility/
Comment linking /2024/01/21/reproducibility/
on “Arch Linux Now Has a Bit-for-Bit Reproducible Docker Image”Submitted The story behind:How we use K8s and spot instances to reduce cost up to 80% as a story · 15 points
HN discussionOver the last few days I have learned that using code generation tools are increasingly used to create a "clean room" version of a product, using a definition which is far from its standard use. See https://tuananh.net/2026/03/05/relicensing-with-ai-assisted-... with discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47257803 I believe your use of "clean room" is another example of misusing the term. Could you clari…
Comment linking /2026/03/05/relicensing-with-ai-assisted-rewrite/
on “Show HN: PyMOL-RS – Rust reimplementation of PyMOL with modern rendering”Submitted Some concerns about Ladybird's (Browser) bylaws as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe only ASCII image I see on that page is actually a PNG: https://tuananh.net/img/buildkit-llb.png Maybe the page was changed? If you're just talking about the gaps between lines, that's just the line height in whatever source was used to render the image, which doesn't say much about AI either way.
Comment linking /img/buildkit-llb.png
on “BuildKit: Docker's Hidden Gem That Can Build Almost Anything”Submitted The state of Linux on desktop in 2020 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some concerns about Ladybird's bylaws as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Has Docker Become? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Architecture for Disposable Systems as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adopting Chainguard Images as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tips for first time server rack buyer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted BuildKit: Docker's Hidden Gem That Can Build Almost Anything as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hope is not a security strategy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Economics of Abundant Intelligence as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 0-CVE OS for VMs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How do we fix MCP security problem? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Traffic from post featured #1 on Hacker News as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why your next mobile app is probably headless as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why your next mobile app is probably headless as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why your next mobile app is probably headless as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted BuildKit: Docker's hidden gem that can build almost anything as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Bug Is a Bug, but a Patch Is a Policy: The Case for Bootable Containers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Shifting Left of CI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I was wrong about AI agent sandboxing as a story · 1 points
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