Work in progress: 181,232 of 181,233 sites checked so far, more every week · updated 2 Nov 2026Missing a blog? Tell us

Top all-time · #21522

Y

Yariv's Blog

Personal blog · yarivsblog.blogspot.comprogrammingculture

Yariv's Blog is a personal blog at yarivsblog.blogspot.com about programming and culture. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.

Visit the blog
3mentions?
3HN people?
2011–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2011

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

Why HN links it

Linked only as a pointer to the author's writing on Meta's engineering history, tied to the move to Erlang for chat before WhatsApp. The comment does not say more about the posts.

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.

programming, random thoughts and other essentials

What Hacker News says?

  1. And they actually moved to Erlang for chat before Whatsapp, around when they hired https://yarivsblog.blogspot.com/

    Comment linking /

    on “Programming languages endorsed for server-side use at Meta”
  2. Submitted Erlang vs. Scala as a story · 48 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Announcing HDMNode: a Node.js based HDM Bitcoin wallet as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

Search all of HN for yarivsblog.blogspot.com