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Wander Lairson Costa
Personal blog · walac.github.iosystemsprogramming
Wander Lairson Costa's personal blog at walac.github.io covers systems and programming. Since 2016, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Debugging the Linux Kernel Through Tracing”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in an HN thread on adding Mercurial support to GitLab. The one comment discusses Git's branching model against Mercurial's and does not comment on the linked writing itself.
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.
Hackers gonna hack
Most-linked posts?
- Debugging the Linux Kernel Through Tracing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-03
- What every kernel programmer should know about Jump Labels2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-20
- Yet another “Java faster than C++” claim2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-10-14
What Hacker News says?
Speaking as someone who used both Git and Mercurial, and who has used both to contribute to projects: Git's concept of branches as simple names for commits, and the ability to switch branches really easily within one checkout (rather than encouraging the use of multiple working directories) helped hugely. Mercurial grew the ability to do git-style branching later, but git had it from the beginning. Git has always tr…
Comment linking /mercurial-for-git-lovers/
on “Adding Mercurial support to Gitlab”Submitted Yet another “Java faster than C++” claim as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Highway to hell: C++ enums and bitfields as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Improving the Kernel TTY Throughput as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Yet another “Java faster than C++” claim as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Debugging the Linux Kernel Through Tracing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What every kernel programmer should know about Jump Labels as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Every Kernel Programmer Should Know About Jump Labels as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deep Dive: Modernizing Stalld as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Debugging the Linux Kernel through tracing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Crash Course on Debugging Kernel Crashes Using the Crash Utility as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A tale of my first Go patch as a story · 1 points
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