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Personal blog · chr4.org/blogsystemsprogrammingsecurity

chr4 is a personal blog at chr4.org about systems, programming and security. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Cache_warmer – tool to warm-up HTTP caches, written in Rust”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.

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12mentions?
3HN people?
2016–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2016

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog's post arguing that Homebrew's maintainers betrayed their users, as a reason to avoid Homebrew. The only linking comment gives no view on the writing itself.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Cache_warmer – tool to warm-up HTTP caches, written in Rust
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-12-18

What Hacker News says?

  1. wl · 2019-02-02
    You should not use Homebrew. The maintainers are not trustworthy. https://chr4.org/blog/2016/04/26/homebrew-betrayed-us-all-to...

    Comment linking /blog/2016/04/26/homebrew-betrayed-us-all-to-google/

    on “Homebrew 2.0.0 released”
  2. chr4 · 2016-04-26

    Submitted Homebrew betrayed us all to Google as a story · 49 points

    HN discussion
  3. chr4 · 2017-03-17

    Submitted Cross-compile and link a static binary on macOS for Linux with cargo and rust as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  4. chr4 · 2016-12-12

    Submitted Writing an Interpreter in Rust as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  5. chr4 · 2017-04-28

    Submitted Sslsecure.vim – Highlight insecure SSL/TLS options as errors in your editor as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  6. chr4 · 2017-12-18

    Submitted Cache_warmer – tool to warm-up HTTP caches, written in Rust as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. chr4 · 2017-04-14

    Submitted Better syntax-highlighting and snippets for Nginx in vim as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. chr4 · 2016-12-19

    Submitted Writing an Interpreter in Rust (Part 2) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. chr4 · 2016-10-24

    Submitted Pg-Cert-check: Monitor PostgreSQL SSL Certificates as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. chr4 · 2019-01-23

    Submitted Make keepalived play nicely with netplan/ systemd-network as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. carlchenet · 2017-12-19

    Submitted Cache_warmer – tool to warm-up HTTP caches, written in Rust as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. chr4 · 2016-11-14

    Submitted Automate letsencrypt certificates (ACME) in an high-availability environment as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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