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Andrew Kember
Personal blog · blog.kember.net/articlessystemsprogramming
Andrew Kember's personal blog at blog.kember.net covers systems and programming. Since 2017, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Reisub – The Gentle Linux Restart”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Andrew Kember's blog for an article on REISUB, the Magic SysRq key sequence for safely rebooting a frozen Linux machine. The commenter cites it for the explanation.
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.
Obfuscation is Easy
Most-linked posts?
- Reisub – The Gentle Linux Restart4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-12-19
What Hacker News says?
I know, right?! This is the first I'd ever heard or read about it and I've been using linux now for ... wow. since 2000? I remember several distros had ctl+alt+backspace mapped to something that would kill your X session and boot you back to the graphical login but I haven't seen that in a long time. (edit, I had to google REISUB: http://blog.kember.net/articles/reisub-the-gentle-linux-rest... )
Comment linking /articles/reisub-the-gentle-linux-restart/
on “The Magic SysReq Key On Your Keyboard”Submitted Reisub – The Gentle Linux Restart as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reisub – The Gentle Linux Restart as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Alt SysRq REISUB – the gentle Linux restart (2008) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
