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Avi Alkalay
Personal blog · avi.alkalay.netsystemsprogramming
Avi Alkalay's personal blog at avi.alkalay.net covers systems and programming. Since 2007, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link a 2007 post, "You Win", as background for a Red Hat slogan homage, a borrowed line from the company's early-2000s posters and office walls. Comments only link it as context.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Context for early 2000s RH challenged individuals: It is a homage to the borrowed slogan RH used to have on posters and office walls. https://avi.alkalay.net/2007/06/you-win.html
Comment linking /2007/06/you-win.html
on “Red Hat being phased out of existence?”Submitted Advanced Multimedia on the Linux Command Line as a story · 4 points
HN discussionOK, I found some good instructions that require only a recompile of freetype -- apparently the reason Linux renders fonts so poorly is that Apple has the good algorithms patented, so they can't turn on the good font rendering by default. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=694... I might have to reinstall Linux this weekend, if it works I'll write a blog post with lots of pictures. This guide ha…
Comment linking /linux/docs/font-howto/Font.html
on “Vista Kicks Ass”