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Steinar H. Gunderson
Personal blog · blog.sesse.net/blogprogrammingsystemshardware
Steinar H. Gunderson's personal blog at blog.sesse.net covers programming, systems and hardware. Since 2011, 33 different Hacker News readers have linked it 45 times, most often “Migrating Away from Bcachefs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Steinar Gunderson's technical posts: a developer's note on Google's snappy compression, an approach to patch requests over SSH, and an explanation of why prefixing IPv4 would not help.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Migrating Away from Bcachefs5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2025-01-20
- Pull Requests via Git Push3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-07-15
- AV1 live streaming: Muxing and streaming2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-08-28
- IPv6 non-alternatives: DJB's article, 13 years later2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-01-06
What Hacker News says?
A note from a developer: http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2011-03-22-19-24_snappy.html
Comment linking /blog/tech/2011-03-22-19-24_snappy.html
on “Google releases snappy, the compression library used in Bigtable”Submitted Leaving MySQL as a story · 626 points
HN discussionThis is another interesting approach: https://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2024-07-15-13-04_pull_reque...
Comment linking /blog/tech/2024-07-15-13-04_pull_requests_via_git_push.html
on “Git-PR: patch requests over SSH”Submitted The sad state of Linux Wi-Fi as a story · 432 points
HN discussionOne theory I had was that blogrolls were common previously and allowed for cluster navigation. My friends and I certainly had these pointing to each other because why wouldn't you? The big bloggers on HN I see are tptacek, rachelbythebay, and simonwillison and none of them have a blogroll. General wisdom in website SEO etc. is to keep the user on your page and not send them elsewhere and I thought that perhaps many…
Comment linking /blog
on “The effects of algorithms on the public discourse”Submitted Why does software development take so long? as a story · 296 points
HN discussionThere was a longer article on this, linked a few weeks back (actually written in 2002). TL;DR: this would work, except for a completely minor issue: a large-scale HW+SW overhaul of everything up and down the net stack would be necessary before this extension would work (just as with IPv6). Therefore, no significant benefit over IPv6 (plus a bunch of brand new, IPv4.1 specific problems). https://blog.sesse.net/blog/t…
Comment linking /blog/tech/2016-01-06-20-54_ipv6_non_alternatives_djbs_article_13_years_later.html
on “Why can't we just prefix IPv4”Submitted Modern Perfect Hashing as a story · 125 points
HN discussionSubmitted Migrating Away from Bcachefs as a story · 83 points
HN discussionSubmitted IPv6 non-alternatives: DJB's article, 13 years later as a story · 78 points
HN discussionSubmitted AV1 live streaming: Muxing and streaming as a story · 28 points
HN discussionSubmitted Security properties provided by the Signal protocol as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pull Requests via Git Push as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Two Chinese Video Encoders as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted TCP optimization for video streaming at The Gathering as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted FOSDEM video streaming, post-mortem as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Migrating Away from Bcachefs as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Migrating Away from Bcachefs as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Migrating Away from Bcachefs as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted SIMD Detection of Nested Quotes as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted An unexpectedly hard question as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pull Requests via `Git Push` as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Faster manual page database indexing for Debian as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted 3G-SDI signal support as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted TCP optimization for video streaming, part 2 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modern Perfect Hashing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bruteforcing Pwgen Passwords as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on AlphaZero as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted JSONB in PostgreSQL as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Your custom rounding code is wrong as a story · 2 points
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