> Well, it's true that average HN article level may be somewhat low, but this one is just telling stuff that every 1-year CS student should know without actuall

> Well, it's true that average HN article level may be somewhat low, but this one is just telling stuff that every 1-year CS student should know without actually going into details. Based on the hundreds of programmers I've met with CS degrees, I would say that 90% of them have probably never even written C, most write Java which this still applies to I suppose. And of those 10% I doubt any of them had the curiosity to use a tool like readelf to understand symbols and static linking. Given that, I highly doubt most first year CS students have any idea what this article is even about, much less care. If everyone in the world shared your attitude about sharing knowledge, the world would have one smart person and a bunch of morons. Get off your pedestal.