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Bjørn Johansen
Personal blog · bjornjohansen.nowebsecurityprogramming
Bjørn Johansen writes {bjørn:johansen}, a personal blog at bjornjohansen.no about web, security and programming. Since 2015, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Should you use www or not in your domain? (2017)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's 2017 post "www or not" on whether domains should use a www subdomain. Commenters cite it in threads on DNS, Chrome's URL bar, and www conventions.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
☆ Not an expert. Probably wrong.
Most-linked posts?
- Should you use www or not in your domain? (2017)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-05-31
What Hacker News says?
Yeah, in the comment section he does state[1], that you should stick with the one you have decided to pick in the first place. [1]: https://bjornjohansen.no/www-or-not#comment-510
Comment linking /www-or-not
on “Should you use www or not in your domain? (2017)”Submitted Should you use www or not in your domain? (2017) as a story · 332 points
HN discussionThe article https://bjornjohansen.no/www-or-not (2017) persuaded me to still use www, however, opinions vary: * https://www.yes-www.org/why-use-www/ * https://dropwww.com/why
Comment linking /www-or-not
on “Benchmarking DNS response times of TLDs”Submitted SVG uploads in Wordpress (surprisingly insecure) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere are legit reasons why you should use a www. sub domain: https://bjornjohansen.no/www-or-not
Comment linking /www-or-not
on ““We plan to hide ‘https’ scheme and subdomain ‘www’ in Chrome omnibox in M76””Submitted To www or not as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYes, that's certainly a solution. Or using a certification authority for users (TrustedUserCAKeys in sshd_config), so that any user that has a signed certificate, and owns the corresponding private key, would be allowed to login. No further updates of authroized_keys files needed. And, to further automate the ssh login, maybe your LUKS container could have a second (Nth) key-slot being a random key RSA-encrypted wit…
Comment linking /encrypt-file-using-ssh-key
on “Systemd-Homed: Systemd Now Working to Improve Home Directory Handling”Submitted Optimizing HTTPS on Nginx as a story · 2 points
HN discussion