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DNSFilter

Company blog · dnsfilter.com/blog · on HN as LogicXwebsecurity

DNSFilter is the company blog at dnsfilter.com, writing about web and security. Since 2016, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.

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15mentions?
5HN people?
2016–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2020

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The linked page is DNSFilter's careers page, cited in 'Who is hiring' threads for remote, full-time Linux System Administrator and QA Engineer roles. The comments do not discuss any writing.

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.

The DNS filtering service trusted by 57,000+ organizations. DNSFilter's DNS security software blocks malware, phishing, and unwanted sites in minutes.

The author on HN?

LogicX · 1,101 karma · member since 2009

CTO & Founder, https://www.DNSFilter.com Boulder, CO Contact: HN [at] lx.tc TechStars Anywhere 2018 LinkedIn: http://lx.tc/LinkedIn Twitter: @MichaelForAll [ my public key: https://keybase.io/mikeschroll; my proof: https://keybase.io/mikeschroll/sigs/u0tN4zQsx70t6dDTvx_b_gpdi6vwn1-dT_UBR7-xQ4M ] meet.hn/city/us-Flagstaff Socials: - instagram.com/MichaelForAllSeasons - linkedin.com/in/MichaelForAllSeasons - github.com/MikeSchroll ---

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

What Hacker News says?

  1. DNSFilter.com | Linux System Administrator | REMOTE | Full Time | https://www.dnsfilter.com/careers/ We're looking for a Linux System Administrator to help us manage our hundreds of virtual and dedicated servers around the globe, outside traditional cloud hosting providers. We wish to have improved monitoring, automated processes through ansible which handle updates. We're looking to have consolidated local dev, dev…

    Comment linking /careers/

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2020)”
  2. Submitted DNS-over-TLS vs. DNS-over-HTTPS as a story · 49 points

    HN discussion
  3. DNSFilter | QA/Release Manager | REMOTE (within 6 hours of EST)| Full Time | https://www.dnsfilter.com/about/careers/ DNSFilter provides cloud-based threat protection and content filtering via DNS. We're looking for someone to 'project manage' our QA Process - starting with manual testing, working with and creating github issues for our engineers to cover that manual testing with automated tests. Then we're looking…

    Comment linking /about/careers/

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)”
  4. Submitted Two Years of Scaling TimescaleDB Without Clustering as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  5. DNSFilter | Golang/Ruby on Rails Engineer | Myrtle Beach, SC, USA | REMOTE https://dnsfilter.com 100% Remote opportunity - Within 6 hours of EST. Full-Time Employee (after a few weeks of contracting) We are a DNS company. DNSFilter provides recursive DNS services with content filtering and threat protection to the Managed Service Provider and Small Medium Business market segments. We have a technically strong foundi…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2017)”
  6. Submitted TikTok Popularity Growth or New Feature Increasing DNS Queries? as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  7. DNSFilter | Frontend Engineer | Full time | Remote DNSFilter is hiring a full-time remote frontend engineer, anywhere within a timezone 6 hours from EST. We use node/react on the frontend. Bonus if you have experience with Electron, can read Ruby on Rails, and have design/UI/UX skills. For full details, and to apply: https://www.dnsfilter.com/about/careers/ I'm Co-Founder and CTO - feel free to shoot me a message.

    Comment linking /about/careers/

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2018)”
  8. Submitted Why DNSFilter Replaced InfluxDB with TimescaleDB (2018) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. DNSFilter | DevOps Engineer | REMOTE (within 6 hours of EST)| Full Time | https://www.dnsfilter.com/about/careers/ DNSFilter provides cloud-based threat protection and content filtering via DNS. I'm CTO and currently manage over 100 servers around the globe; but am looking to hand off this role and have a big backlog of improvements. So this roll will continue to work closely with me as we improve performance monito…

    Comment linking /about/careers/

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)”
  10. Submitted How Webshrinker works (ML-based domain categorization) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. dnsfilter.com|QA Engineer|remote, full-time| https://www.dnsfilter.com/careers/| Want to work with a team of experienced developers from around the world? Like to make a positive impact on customers? Want to work with great people at one of the fastest-growing startups in the industry? DNSFilter (a TechStars 2018 company) is a fast-growing SaaS startup with over 1700+ customers and is cash-flow positive. We are a pr…

    Comment linking /careers/|

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2020)”
  12. https://DNSFilter.com - DNS-Based content filtering and Threat protection; designed to meet the needs of managers of multiple networks. We're focused on entities that manage 20-100+ networks representing retail, restaurants, hotels, chains, public spaces, etc. These networks also need protection, and can benefit from centralized management that a cloud-based solution brings over on-premise boxes. Our biggest competi…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL”
  13. Came here to see if anyone mentioned next.js: https://zeit.co/blog/next Which fits in with this discussion. Been working well for us on https://DNSFilter.com

    Comment linking /

    on “A static website with React”
  14. Second on http://Drift.com . Pleasantly surprised how many great conversations it drives for us at https://DNSFilter.com

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: What SaaS customer service tools does your startup use?”
  15. Tangentially related: My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answering 8.8.8.8 --- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19170671 (2019; 509 comments) The original post for that is https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/dnsop/WCVv57IizUSjNb2R... from Paul Vixie Also: An Internet Born In a Threat-Free Environment - https://www.recordedfuture.com/podcast-episode-201 (2021) Paul Vixie and Peter Lowe on Why DoH…

    Comment linking /blog/paul-vixie-and-peter-lowe-on-why-doh-is-politically-motivated

    on “Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 DNS resolving issues”

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