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growse.com Pointless musings is a personal blog at growse.com about programming and systems. Since 2012, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Screw You Realtek”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its technical posts on ZFS, filesystems and networking, such as a post on asymmetric routing and firewalls that explains connection timeout problems.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Screw You Realtek3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-05-02
- At Home with Kubernetes, MetalLB and BGP [2019]2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-01
What Hacker News says?
I don't have much experience with btrfs but my understanding is whilst they're generally equivalent the multi-disk config of btrfs isn't really considered stable (think raid5/6 vs zraid1/2). Most production use case is single disk. Regarding performance, I'm guessing you won't be happy with either if you're not happy with performance. You want to be looking at ARC / SLOG if you want higher performance. https://www.g…
Comment linking /2020/06/09/improving-zfs-write-performance-by-adding-a-slog.html
on “An Introduction to ZFS”Submitted Screw You Realtek as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI thought about collecting some of these in the past. Fun thing to do, put this in a `.ps` file and send it to a printer. Should think for a bit and then print a mandelbrot: %!PS-Adobe-2.0 51 .5 551 { /x exch def 111 .5 721 { /y exch def y 521 sub 201 div x 301 sub 201 div 1 index 1 index 31 -1 1 { /n exch def 1 index dup mul 1 index dup mul 1 index 1 index add /d exch def sub 4 index add 3 1 roll 2 mul mul 2 index…
Comment linking /2009/05/01/odd-ways-of-making-a-mandelbrot/
on “Woah that is some wild postgresql”Submitted Partition Tolerance and Hadoop. Part 1: HDFS as a story · 3 points
HN discussion"Adventures with asymmetric routing and firewalls"[1] might provide some useful insite/information[1]. [1] : http://www.growse.com/2020/01/23/adventures-with-asymmetric-...
Comment linking /2020/01/23/adventures-with-asymmetric-routing-and-firewalls.html
on “TCP connection timeout mystery”Submitted Android *really* doesn't like broken IPv6 networks as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI use MetalLB to allocate RFC1918 IPs out of a dedicated pool to LoadBalancer services. MetalLB then publishes these to my router over BGP because, you know, why not? I then have external-dns running ( https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/external-dns ) which manages the relevant A/CNAME records on Google DNS (other DNS providers are supported) so that I can resolve "myservice.mydomain.com" to the service's IP address…
Comment linking /2019/04/13/at-home-with-kubernetes-metallb-and-bgp.html
on “Domesticating Kubernetes”Submitted I'm no UI expert, but something's wrong with Android. as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Screw You, Realtek as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Screw You Realtek as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted At Home with Kubernetes, MetalLB and BGP [2019] as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adventures in Rust and Cross Compilation for the Raspberry Pi as a story · 1 points
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