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947 mentions on Hacker News by 745 people: 99 stories, 848 comments · first 2010-07-15 · latest 2026-10-29

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  1. …He does not accept github pull requests, for reasons he's explained at length in, amongst others, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17
    comment by masklinn · 2013-12-01 · in Linux-ng
  2. …Nov 8 2012 iwlwifi-105-6.ucode -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 679436 Nov 8 2012 iwlwifi-6000g2b-6.ucode https://github.com/torvalds/linux/search?q=phanfw (QLogic qlcnic) https://github.com/torvalds/linux/search?q=i6050 (Intel WiMAX)…
  3. And 'shit's in Linux: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/search?q=shit&ref=cmdform
    comment by pdappollonio · 2013-10-12 · in 'fuck's in Linux
  4. off topic, but this: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/50
  5. …means, relegated to only having merge commits from feature branches that correspond to releases. 1. https://github.com/torvalds/linux 2. http://lwn.net/Articles/328436/ 3. http://lwn.net/Articles/328438/
    comment by sonnym · 2013-09-24 · in A successful Git branching model (2010)
  6. Doesn’t he give detailed information on why Github’s interface appears inferior to him, e.g. in https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56599... ?
  7. He is a rude person. Look at his comment in the same thread: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56599... He says: "Btw, Joseph, you're a quality example of why I detest the github interface. For some reason, github has…
  8. Re: Linus' rants against PRs: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17
    comment by icebraining · 2013-08-04 · in GitHub and my open source life
  9. …weak memory model is desirable. [1]: http://www.arm.com/files/downloads/ARMv8_Architecture.pdf [2]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...
    comment by artagnon · 2013-08-01 · in The Belt CPU Architecture
  10. I don't know if this counts, but the linux kernel famously uses a JIT to filter network packets: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/net/b...
    comment by thedigitalengel · 2013-07-22 · in Partially Applied Functions in C
  11. Here's the Makefile: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Makefile Here's the changeset: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ad81f0545ef01ea6518...
  12. …seen discussion with Linus Torvalds about the problems with "pull request" model for his workflow: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56546...
    comment by aeontech · 2013-07-11 · in GitHub Flow in the Browser
  13. …any time you have a few lines of code that look and operate very close to each other. For example https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/security/commo... you are writing "cap_capget", you could write three lines, effective…
    comment by adamzochowski · 2013-04-29 · in Collection of the best fonts for programming
  14. Linux commit messages are rather detailed and appropriate commit messages: https://github.com/torvalds/linux The Linux source is also very well commented, but C might not be what you're looking for.
  15. Here's Linus' opinion on Github pull requests https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56546... I wonder how critical the HN community would have been if the exchange was with a female programmer? If you read the exchange,…
    comment by mkhattab · 2013-01-24 · in Being Wrong on the Internet
  16. …the barrier from minutes to seconds. Hopefully that will be a net positive for the community. [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56599...
    comment by h2s · 2013-01-09 · in Create and delete branches
  17. …to pass a judgement on the quality of this commit message. Fortunately, he isn't quick to judge: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56599... ;)
    comment by mixedbit · 2012-12-07 · in Is this a good commit message?
  18. Right, the Linux community is very forgiving of noobs. [1] [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56599...
    comment by mintplant · 2012-11-17 · in Crowding out OpenBSD
  19. here's a more recent rant: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56599...
  20. …messages: https://github.com/torvalds/subsurface/blob/master/README#L1... And more explicitly: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56599... We have been moving towards commit messages similar to those used in the kernel…
    comment by thomseddon · 2012-09-06 · in Rails 3.2 feature: unreadable production logs
  21. https://github.com/facebook/tornado/ https://github.com/django/django https://github.com/git/git/ https://github.com/torvalds/linux
  22. …connections break? [0] https://github.com/facebook [1] https://github.com/Blizzard/api-wow-docs [2] https://github.com/torvalds/linux [3] https://github.com/google
  23. …there too?" I'd not be surprised if he makes a permanent move once GitHub fixes a few things:   https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56546... . On the other hand, he is a known control freak.
    comment by eevilspock · 2012-07-14 · in The Most Important Social Network: GitHub
  24. …on Github, that crashes every single browser on every platform, so don't even try opening it: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/network)* .
  25. Does it allow you to format your commit messages? https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17
    comment by ChrisAnn · 2012-05-21 · in GitHub for Windows
  26. After reading this thread https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56599... (especially this comment), Friend of mine sent to me this article. Maybe it's coincident maybe not. But kind of good response.
    comment by xando · 2012-05-18 · in I refuse to tolerate assholes
  27. …I only went in that direction because I didn't want to believe you were trying to quote mine. [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56613... [2] How fitting. Poor text wrapping support bites again. When I pasted the…
  28. He explains it here: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56599... In particular, "the quality of stuff I have seen from people who use the github web interfaces has been so low that it's not worth my time."
  29. …the summarized version of what commit-formatting Linus actually wants (for the kernel anyway): https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56637... https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56637...
    comment by moonlighter · 2012-05-12 · in Lessons from torvalds/GitHub commits discussion
  30. He answered to that: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56637...
    comment by vibrunazo · 2012-05-12 · in Linus Torvalds won't do github pull requests
  31. …a 'git am' compatible patch file complete with the email address that Linus complains is missing ;) https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17.patch EDIT: I should note this works on any commit as well. Take this commit from Casbah (the…
  32. https://github.com/torvalds/linux
  33. (Careful with the link) This page https://github.com/torvalds/linux/graphs/impact freezes FF12 on W7/x64 for several seconds, and then FF asks if to continue running the script or if to stop it. Continuing re-freezes Firefox.
    comment by huhtenberg · 2012-04-25 · in Introducing the New GitHub Graphs
  34. …have many commits to see when their active hours are. For instance, this is Linux's punch card: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/graphs/punch-card Of course, interesting != useful
    comment by Aethaeryn · 2012-04-25 · in Introducing the New GitHub Graphs
  35. …this "structured programming" bullshit. Kernel uses 2 a lot to handle errors like here [1]. [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/mm/shmem.c#L99...
    comment by kia · 2012-04-24 · in Error handling style in C
  36. >the top OSS projects aren't on GitHub and similar Hmm? https://github.com/torvalds/linux https://github.com/rails/rails https://github.com/ry/node https://github.com/jquery/jquery https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap…
    comment by funthree · 2012-04-06 · in One hiring filter that works
  37. …and month. Try navigating through which commits where introduced a year ago in a Github repository: https://github.com/mirrors/linux-2.6/commits/master - it ends in a binary search through page numbers! (You could use the CLI, but that is…
    comment by dybber · 2012-03-28 · in Coding Horror: The End of Pagination
  38. …is not needed in the declaration» Someone doesn't understand the value of the "struct" keyword: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...
  39. …the quality of pull requests, it's unfortunate that a people took this as an opportunity to troll ( https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/6 ). That will hopefully settle down once this is no longer "news". If not, we'll find a way to a…
    comment by rtomayko · 2011-09-06 · in Linus Torvalds Comments About Github
  40. I was wondering how long it would take for this to happen: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/7#issuecomment-200563...
    comment by nphase · 2011-09-05 · in Linux is now hosted on GitHub
  41. "Is there some way to just turn off github pull requests? They're all jokes." - https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/7#issuecomment-200563...
    comment by timf · 2011-09-05 · in Linux is now hosted on GitHub
  42. For anyone pulling the kernel tree from github - here is how you can verify it. linux-2.6 $ git pull git://github.com/torvalds/linux.git linux-2.6 $ git fetch --tags git://github.com/torvalds/linux.git linux-2.6 $ gpg --keyserver…
    comment by blinkingled · 2011-09-05 · in Linux is now hosted on GitHub
  43. Has anyone managed to view the Github Impact graph ? https://github.com/torvalds/linux/graphs/impact
    comment by kuahyeow · 2011-09-05 · in Linux is now hosted on GitHub
  44. Someone discovered a bug... https://github.com/torvalds/linux/issues/1
    comment by lee337 · 2011-09-05 · in Linux is now hosted on GitHub
  45. Presumably just Linus playing around with Github? There's been a mirror for some time - https://github.com/mirrors/linux-2.6 and https://github.com/mirrors/linux
    comment by duggan · 2011-09-05 · in Linux is now hosted on GitHub
  46. …even if you assume that it is an issue at the moment. Edit: Githubs download expierience: https://github.com/mirrors/linux-2.6 , click on downloads in upper left corner, click 3.0-rc1, downloading 115mb and my bandwidth is saturated at…
    comment by VMG · 2011-06-04 · in GitHub, Collaboration, and Haters
  47. https://github.com/mirrors/linux-2.6 Github hosts mirrors of a few popular open-source projects, which is handy because they have much better source browsing than the alternatives.
  48. …considered normal use of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work". [1] http://github.com/mirrors/linux-2.6/blob/master/COPYING
    comment by quadhome · 2010-07-15 · in An analysis of GPLed code in Thesis