[supriyo-biswas]

Implying that you can just read that documentation and "walk through it in a tutorial fashion" is a peak HN comment probably only rivaled by the famous Dropbox comment.

Not everyone is an expert in these things, and I'd appreciate if there were more articles like this.

[4ntiq]

This is what a lot of us have had to do early on because we had no other resources than first-hand manuals (mostly only printed; Hackers scene with books was painfully true), and maybe someone on a BBS or Usenet (later IRC) who could answer a question or two if they felt generous enough with their time to not heckle us for being dumb. If you're looking into `ld`, you've crossed a point of no return.

And the `ld` manual is great and there is nothing wrong with it.

The dropbox comment is people who are completely misguided as to the market value of a product that solves a real pain point for users and the recommended alternatives of using rsync was comically out of touch with the technical acumen of an everyday person. (see also the great "Less space than a nomad. Lame." comment from that other site)

Using `ld` is on the opposite swing of that, and that discussion is very much res de facto technical one with no punches held back. This is what the "Hacker" in "Hacker News" actually stands for.