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Personal blog · 5f5.org/ruminationsprogrammingsystemsstartups
5f5 is a personal blog at 5f5.org about programming, systems and startups. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Show HN: Identifying the DNS server used to fulfill a HTTP request”. It has a working feed you can follow.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link 5f5 for its ruminations, such as a write-up on DNS debugging over HTTP. The single comment calls that write-up excellent and says the commenter might draw on it for custom DNS software.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Identifying the DNS server used to fulfill a HTTP request2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-01-14
What Hacker News says?
I like the idea of encoding the data. Or it can be like a URL shortener, where the metadata gets recorded, and a short hash is generated. It complicates the back-end but allows for more comprehensive data storage, and eventual reporting. Regarding custom DNS software, I might draw from this excellent write-up featured on HN recently: http://5f5.org/ruminations/dns-debugging-over-http.html
Comment linking /ruminations/dns-debugging-over-http.html
on “Google has also indexed thousands of publicly accessible Panasonic webcams”Submitted A taxonomy of tech haters as a story · 43 points
HN discussionThanks! It's not from a template; it's super basic HTML I wrote up by hand with simple CSS behind it. Take a look at the source for http://5f5.org/ruminations/ — I copy and paste that into a new file and use that as a template for new posts. The pondering section is where I keep notes to my self for future topics. There's a file in that directory that has a bunch of sentence fragments and ideas for other, not yet fo…
Comment linking /ruminations/
on “Shedding some light on "dark social"”Submitted Netty and the JVM meet OpenSSL to speed up connections as a story · 39 points
HN discussionhttps://5f5.org/
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Shedding some light on "dark social" as a story · 37 points
HN discussionHm - it looks like HN pulled the canonical link? I mirrored it on my home page for that reason; https://5f5.org/mirror/HowToAssertThatYourSQLDoesNotDoFullTa...
Comment linking /mirror/HowToAssertThatYourSQLDoesNotDoFullTableScans/
on “How to assert that your SQL does not do full table scans”Submitted Show HN: Identifying the DNS server used to fulfill a HTTP request as a story · 17 points
HN discussionhttps://5f5.org/
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Identifying the DNS server used to fulfill an HTTP request (2013) as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Three startup skills we all learn getting an undergraduate engineering degree as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to assert that your SQL does not do full table scans as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Employee #1 at Firebase (YC S11) to Co-Founder of Gold Fig (YC S19) as a story · 1 points
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