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Yoav Farhi
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Yoav Farhi writes yoav.blog, a personal blog at blog.yoavfarhi.com about programming and web. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “The half-life of WordPress code”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for an analysis of how long code survives in popular open-source projects, with the WordPress results as a case study on code 'half-life'. Comments cite it as a source and do not evaluate the writing.
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.
A blog by Yoav Farhi
Most-linked posts?
- The half-life of WordPress code3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-12-06
What Hacker News says?
Code from year one may still be the same code but when it gets moved or reformatted its cohort is updated. If a bad change is reverted, will the cohort for those lines of code also be reverted? The effect of understated longevity is not so obvious when it is gradual and organic. Sometimes an event in a project's history makes the effect very obvious. https://blog.yoavfarhi.com/2016/12/06/half-life-wordpress-co...
Comment linking /2016/12/06/half-life-wordpress-code/
on “Analysis of longevity of code across many popular projects”Submitted The half-life of WordPress code as a story · 4 points
HN discussionResults for WordPress https://blog.yoavfarhi.com/2016/12/06/half-life-wordpress-co...
Comment linking /2016/12/06/half-life-wordpress-code/
on “Analysis of longevity of code across many popular projects”