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Exotic Silicon research department news
Company blog · research.exoticsilicon.com/articlessystemssecurity
Exotic Silicon research department news is the company blog at research.exoticsilicon.com, writing about systems and security. Since 2023, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Writing a greylisting filter in ~1000 lines of C”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Exotic Silicon for its OpenBSD and PinePhone series and an article on email filters written in C. Comments mostly discuss the site's design, themes and terms of use rather than the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Writing a greylisting filter in ~1000 lines of C3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-10-05
- Does the eject command make a USB flash drive fly across the room?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-14
- Routing 4G cellular data to a BSD network using bridge mode on the RUT-2402 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-14
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-31
- Fixing cringeworthy bugs in the OpenBSD console code2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-10
What Hacker News says?
Probably [1], but it certainly needs more hands on deck last time I talked to Crystal. [1]: https://research.exoticsilicon.com/series/pinephone_openbsd
Comment linking /series/pinephone_openbsd
on “OpenBSD 7.3”Submitted Fixing cringeworthy bugs in the OpenBSD console code as a story · 7 points
HN discussionOriginal article: https://research.exoticsilicon.com/articles/mail_filters
Comment linking /articles/mail_filters
on “OpenBSD: Email Filters in C”Submitted 4096 Colours and the Blink Attribute as a story · 4 points
HN discussionInterested to know which languages inspired Jeebox. For example, REBOL, Tcl, Forth, even Prolog. Love the site design. Picking up vibes similar to Exotic Silicon¹. This page is CSS' reason-to-be. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31396098 ¹ https://research.exoticsilicon.com/
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on “Jeebox”Submitted Discovering one bug after another in the UTF-8 decoding logic in OpenBSD as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAgreed. I have no idea who "exoticsilicon" are or if they read HN but if they do , free-for-life rsync.net accounts for any of them that care to contact us. I am already making good use of this particular piece of content: https://research.exoticsilicon.com/articles/lte_ethernet_bri...
Comment linking /articles/lte_ethernet_bridge
on “Exoticsilicon.com – Replying to comments about our web page design”Submitted Exotic Silicon Design Studio Index as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTried out all of their themes on the welcome page, which seems like a nice showcase of what's available when you switch the themes: https://research.exoticsilicon.com/welcome Here's the aspects that I personally enjoyed: - Tropical nights: this feels like a pleasant theme on the eyes, almost like an IDE dark mode - Nitrate memories: another theme that feels fairly readable, with the contrast being okay in *most* pla…
Comment linking /welcome
on “Exoticsilicon.com – Replying to comments about our web page design”Submitted Exotic Silicon Design Studio as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> You agree not to use the content to train AI systems or machine learning systems. https://research.exoticsilicon.com/terms First I’ve seen that.
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on “Exoticsilicon.com – Replying to comments about our web page design”Submitted Routing 4G cellular data to a BSD network using bridge mode on the RUT-240 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThen you'll hate the homepage[0] which features a tit (bird) flying off after the page rendered. That's the default theme, though -- you can switch themes using the animated glasses button in the lower-left of the homepage. [0] https://research.exoticsilicon.com/
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on “Console Screendumps”Submitted Writing a greylisting filter in ~1000 lines of C as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Does the eject command make a USB flash drive fly across the room? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Web page design studio – Part one: User-friendly visuals, and responsive design as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exotic Silicon Design Studio as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exotic Silicon Design Studio as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exoticsilicon.com – writing a greylisting filter in ~1000 lines of C as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exoticsilicon.com – Replying to comments about our web page design as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using /bin/eject with USB flash drives (on OpenBSD) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Console Screendumps as a story · 1 points
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