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Hubert Feyrer

Personal blog · feyrer.de/NetBSD/bx/blosxom.cgisystemsprogramming

Hubert Feyrer's personal blog at feyrer.de covers systems and programming. Since 2009, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Pwning NetBSD-Aarch64 (ARM)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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10mentions?
9HN people?
2009–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Hubert Feyrer's site hosts Ghost 4 Unix (g4u) and g4l, Unix disk-imaging tools. HN commenters link these project pages when discussing disk cloning as an alternative to Norton Ghost.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Pwning NetBSD-Aarch64 (ARM)
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-03-10
  2. /g4u/
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-04-15

What Hacker News says?

  1. tachion · 2013-04-15Recommends
    There's very nice utility called Ghost 4 Unix that makes the whole thing even easier: http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/

    Comment linking /g4u/

    on “Linode hacked, CCs and passwords leaked”
  2. iamabhi9 · 2012-01-20

    Submitted Looks like a bunch of NetBSD code was used in Sony PSP. Fun! as a story · 18 points

    HN discussion
  3. liveoneggs · 2013-05-04Recommends
    check this out, if you like g4l: http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/g4l.html

    Comment linking /g4u/g4l.html

    on “Norton Ghost discontinued”
  4. dgr · 2009-02-06

    Submitted Unix time 1234567890 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. liveoneggs · 2013-05-04
    http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/

    Comment linking /g4u/

    on “Norton Ghost discontinued”
  6. t-3 · 2026-04-09

    Submitted Pwning NetBSD-Aarch64 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. neilc · 2009-10-18
    http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/gmcgarry/ suggests that the cost to acquire an uncontested mutex on NetBSD in 2005 was ~37 nsec, so ~25 nsec doesn't seem too unreasonable (although strangely it was more expensive on FreeBSD).

    Comment linking /NetBSD/gmcgarry/

    on “Numbers Everyone Should Know”
  8. jruohonen · 2026-03-31

    Submitted Pwning NetBSD-Aarch64 (ARM) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. jaypatelani · 2026-03-10

    Submitted Pwning NetBSD-Aarch64 (ARM) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. tete · 2015-06-28

    Submitted Announcing First Release Candidate for NetBSD 7.0 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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