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Evaggelos Balaskas

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Evaggelos Balaskas's personal blog at balaskas.gr covers systems and programming. Since 2019, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Gitlab as a Terraform state back end (2022)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.

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5mentions?
5HN people?
2019–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2019

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

Why HN links it

HN commenters link Evaggelos Balaskas's blog for a guide on using network namespaces with a VPN, in the context of a Raspberry Pi torrent box. The comment cites the guide without judging the writing.

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. Gitlab as a Terraform state back end (2022)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-20

What Hacker News says?

  1. A good setup is using namespaces with VPN. See one guide here: https://balaskas.gr/blog/2020/05/09/network-namespaces-part-...

    Comment linking /blog/2020/05/09/network-namespaces-part-one/

    on “Raspberry Pi Torrentbox”
  2. Submitted Dead Simple VPN as a story · 148 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Gitlab as a Terraform state back end (2022) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Gitlab as a Terraform state back end as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Object Storage with Backblaze, Rclone, MinIO and S3cmd as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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