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Aymeric on Software
Personal blog · blog.barthe.phprogrammingsecurity
Aymeric on Software is a personal blog at blog.barthe.ph about programming and security. Since 2012, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “HFS+ Bit Rot”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this post as evidence of HFS+ bit rot, with one citing 28 files lost over six years, in threads on Apple File System, APFS and HFS+ design.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Random thoughts about software and computer technologies…
Most-linked posts?
- /2014/06/10/hfs-plus-bit-rot/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-06-13
- HFS+ Bit Rot2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-06-11
What Hacker News says?
It's tested, so there's less risk of new and unexpected bugs, but the known problems are significant: https://blog.barthe.ph/2014/06/10/hfs-plus-bit-rot/ .
Comment linking /2014/06/10/hfs-plus-bit-rot/
on “Apple File System”Submitted HFS+ Bit Rot as a story · 189 points
HN discussionThere is a lot of discussion online. Most of it can be found by searching for "hfs bitrot" on Google. https://blog.barthe.ph/2014/06/10/hfs-plus-bit-rot/ > A concrete example of Bit Rot > ... HFS+ lost a total of 28 files over the course of 6 years.
Comment linking /2014/06/10/hfs-plus-bit-rot/
on “A ZFS developer’s analysis of Apple’s new APFS file system”Submitted The .NET Core Zoo as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHFS is a terrible fs design. HFS+ marginally improves it. Consider that in HFS (and early HFS+) had a fun limitation -- you could only ever create 65535 files. Didn't matter if you deleted; the Catalog (CNID) incremented with each new file created until it ran out. Also HFS+ only has 1 second resolution for timestamps and can't do timestamps later than February 6, 2040. Other dreadful details here: http://blog.barth…
Comment linking /2014/06/10/hfs-plus-bit-rot/
on “Apple – OS X – Photos”Submitted Future proof backup strategy as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSince I used the Bitcoin-Core to send/spend bitcoins, the export instructions from https://balances.io/import_instructions will not work. The balance displayed is much less than what the wallet contains, because of the internal addresses from the key pool. See http://blog.barthe.ph/2014/04/03/bitcoin-balance-differs/
Comment linking /2014/04/03/bitcoin-balance-differs/
on “Show HN: Balances – Mint for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies”Submitted Keeping Shai-Hulud Off the Mélange as a story · 2 points
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on “Ask HN: What are the small to medium size blogs you go to daily?”Submitted Fixing the Twitter Timeline in Octopress as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to “store” passwords securely as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A+ Grade on SSL Labs with Let's Encrypt and Nginx as a story · 1 points
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