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Alyx Wijers

Personal blog · alyx.sh/postssystemshardwareprogramming

Alyx Wijers's personal blog at alyx.sh covers systems, hardware and programming. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-08, and you can follow it by feed.

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4mentions?
3HN people?
2023–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2023

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for a review of MikroTik's CCR2004-1G-2XS-PCIe SmartNIC and a follow-up addendum on deploying it. The one comment only points to that addendum.

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.

I make and break things.

What Hacker News says?

  1. She has an addendum here https://alyx.sh/posts/deploying-the-ccr2004-1g-2xs-pcie/

    Comment linking /posts/deploying-the-ccr2004-1g-2xs-pcie/

    on “Review: A Dive into MikroTik's Weird SmartNIC (CCR2004-1G-2XS-PCIe)”
  2. Submitted The time I bought a Freenode IRC server (2023) as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted "erase startup-config" isn't enough as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Review: A Dive into MikroTik's Weird SmartNIC (CCR2004-1G-2XS-PCIe) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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