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Alexander Bakker
Personal blog · alexbakker.me/postsecuritysystems
Alexander Bakker's personal blog at alexbakker.me covers security and systems. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Did cosmic rays break my Linux build?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in an HN thread on ECC RAM with AMD Ryzen 7000 desktop CPUs. The only comment argues that ECC should be standard on desktops and does not judge the post itself.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Did cosmic rays break my Linux build?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-11-17
What Hacker News says?
In my opinion yes, ECC should be standard. ECC is expensive just because Intel had a monopoly over the server segment, and unilaterally forced desktop not to use ECC. Otherwise people would use desktop computers as servers, and that would reduce profits. At work, my workstation Desktop computer has ECC. The colleague's sitting next to me has on their screen sometimes kernel warnings of ECC errors. And cases of bit f…
Comment linking /post/did-cosmic-rays-break-my-linux-build.html
on “ECC RAM on AMD Ryzen 7000 Desktop CPUs”Submitted A mysterious bug in the firmware of Google's Titan M chip as a story · 238 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bypassing app lock in Ente Auth as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Did cosmic rays break my Linux build? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bypassing app lock in Ente Auth as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Did cosmic rays break my Linux build? (2019) as a story · 2 points
HN discussion