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Allan McRae

Personal blog · allanmcrae.comprogrammingsystems

Allan McRae's personal blog at allanmcrae.com covers programming and systems. Since 2010, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Package signing comes to Archlinux”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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22mentions?
20HN people?
2010–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Allan McRae's posts on Arch Linux and pacman development, including the pacman package signing series, the Python 3 transition in Arch, and comparisons of security incident handling.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Package signing comes to Archlinux
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2011-08-29
  2. Big Python Transition In Arch Linux
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-10-20

What Hacker News says?

  1. keithpeter · 2014-04-09
    But can we still have the CV numbers as well please. "The security community refers to vulnerabilities by numbers, not names. This does have some advantages, like precision and the ability to Google them and get meaningful results all of the time" I wish everyone embedded a Dewey Decimal number into their factual pages. Would be ace. "I saw some kvetching on Twitter to the effect that the logo designer heard about H…

    Comment linking /2013/01/manjaro-linux-ignoring-security-for-stability/

    on “What Heartbleed Can Teach The OSS Community About Marketing”
  2. ferrari8608 · 2016-02-08

    Submitted Pacman-5.0 Released as a story · 66 points

    HN discussion
  3. hwkns · 2011-09-17
    Package signing is in the works: http://allanmcrae.com/2011/08/pacman-package-signing-3-pacma...

    Comment linking /2011/08/pacman-package-signing-3-pacman/

    on “Arch Linux – "It is what you make it"”
  4. ingve · 2015-06-25

    Submitted The Case of GCC-5.1 and the Two C++ ABIs as a story · 40 points

    HN discussion
  5. Mithrandir · 2010-10-20
    Interesting discussions on it at: http://tinyurl.com/2cepr72 and http://tinyurl.com/25pgqql More in-depth post at: http://allanmcrae.com/2010/10/big-python-transition-in-arch-... Seems there's not a lot of uproar or cheering on it (though it depends on who's doing the posting.)

    Comment linking /2010/10/big-python-transition-in-arch-linux/

    on “Python is now Python 3”
  6. riledhel · 2012-01-17

    Submitted Package signing comes to Pacman Arch Linux as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. sciurus · 2012-08-15Recommends
    Allen McRae had an interesting, relvant post recently- "Are We Removing What Defines Arch Linux?" http://allanmcrae.com/2012/08/are-we-removing-what-defines-a...

    Comment linking /2012/08/are-we-removing-what-defines-arch-linux/

    on “Arch Linux to migrate to Systemd”
  8. vault_ · 2011-08-29

    Submitted Package signing comes to Archlinux as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. ga2arch · 2011-09-14
    It seems things are changing http://allanmcrae.com/2011/08/pacman-package-signing-3-pacma...

    Comment linking /2011/08/pacman-package-signing-3-pacman/

    on “UTorrent.com compromised, malware added to installer”
  10. psxuaw · 2020-12-06

    Submitted Arch Linux's pacman preparing 6.0 release with parallel downloads as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Nic0 · 2011-11-01Recommends
    Allan McRae (pacman developer) done some good writing about the signing package of Pacman on his blog, in three parts. - http://allanmcrae.com/2011/08/pacman-package-signing-1-makep... - http://allanmcrae.com/2011/08/pacman-package-signing-2-pacma... - http://allanmcrae.com/2011/08/pacman-package-signing-3-pacma...

    Comment linking /2011/08/pacman-package-signing-3-pacman/

    on “Why AUR is part of the Arch Linux Success”
  12. todsacerdoti · 2020-10-12

    Submitted Distri – Comparing Apples and Oranges? – Allan McRae as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. creshal · 2015-04-09
    Manjaro had a rather… iffy relationship with developing a security mindset in the past: http://allanmcrae.com/2013/10/comparison-of-security-issue-h... It appears they're not learning.

    Comment linking /2013/10/comparison-of-security-issue-handling/

    on “Expired SSL certificate”
  14. moviuro · 2019-10-21

    Submitted Pacman 5.2 Release (Archlinux) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. neeee · 2013-04-03

    Submitted Pacman-4.1 Released as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. malloc47 · 2012-12-25

    Submitted Battle of the Arch Spin-Offs as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. a_magical_me · 2012-04-08

    Submitted How Secure Is The Source Code? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Reventlov · 2012-03-08

    Submitted Windows Service Center. as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. enduser · 2010-10-20

    Submitted Big Python Transition In Arch Linux as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. HaoZeke · 2019-10-16

    Submitted Pacman 5.1 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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