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Jan-Philip Gehrcke
Personal blog · gehrcke.de · on HN as jgehrckeprogrammingdatasystems
Jan-Philip Gehrcke's personal blog at gehrcke.de covers programming, data and systems. Since 2009, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “GnuTLS vulnerability: is unit testing a matter of language culture?”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Jan-Philip Gehrcke's posts as technical references, such as a Debian tip for finding outdated shared libraries with checkrestart and a post on Google search changes and RSS feeds.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- GnuTLS vulnerability: is unit testing a matter of language culture?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-03-21
What Hacker News says?
Back then, I was quite young. Around 2002. We were like 5 boys getting into overclocking. For our SETI team, the "Bücki crunching connection", from my small hometown in Germany. I just tried to find an old screenshot from back in the day, and wow I found one, from 2002: https://imgur.com/a/L5Q5PMR So funny, it is all there: ICQ, mIRC; an icon to launch Quake III. And some SETI crunching stats. In Internet Explorer.…
Comment linking /2020/03/setihome-hibernation/
on “SETI@home shuts down after 21 years”Submitted Running an eBPF program may require lifting the kernel lockdown as a story · 67 points
HN discussionAlso: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40970987 https://gehrcke.de/2023/09/google-changes-recently-i-see-mor... The wrong RSS thing may have just tipped the scales over to Google not caring.
Comment linking /2023/09/google-changes-recently-i-see-more-of-discovered-currently-not-indexed/
on “Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why”Submitted Recover a gzipped HTML response from the browser cache (2013) as a story · 13 points
HN discussionThere was a GnuTLS vulnerability introduced in 2000 was discovered in 2014 due to an audit. To summarize there was a refactoring that had no accompanying test coverage that had the effect of inverting a check. Bugs happen to everyone, but the process that led to this one is really concerning. (OpenSSL certainly has bad process too but as the GP mentions, more people are hammering on it.) This blog post has more (inc…
Comment linking /2014/03/gnutls-vulnerability-is-unit-testing-a-matter-of-language-culture/
on “Cryptographic Right Answers”Submitted The scientific method: in non-Covid times you wouldn't care as a story · 10 points
HN discussionIf you're curious about this topic then I would love to link you to https://techspot.zzzeek.org/2015/02/15/asynchronous-python-a... written by Mike Bayer (author of SQLAlchemy) -- it's an article that I keep referring to as a must-read, incredibly well written and all about real-world implications (totally transferable to other non-Python ecosystems). If you like to, maybe also have a read into https://gehrcke.de/gi…
Comment linking /gipc/background.html
on “Sync vs. Async Python: What Is the Difference?”Submitted So simple and yet so complex: behind the scenes of command line arguments as a story · 8 points
HN discussionTip for Debian/Ubuntu users: checkrestart from the debian-goodies package is a nice wrapper around lsof that lists running binaries that rely on outdated solibs: http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=checkrestar... https://gehrcke.de/2014/06/good-to-know-checkrestart-from-de... It not only shows processes that run older solibs, but in the case of services, it will also give you the commands to restart the…
Comment linking /2014/06/good-to-know-checkrestart-from-debian-goodies/
on “32-bit x86 Position Independent Code – It's That Bad”Submitted Efficient Python: stream processing and using the right data structure for the job as a story · 6 points
HN discussionWe are totally of the same of the same opinion: http://gehrcke.de/2009/08/whats-faster-a-supercomputer-or-ec... Additionally, one has to say that the quantities in the graph Ian is showing have a much bigger uncertainty than pretended. Jan-Philip Gehrcke
Comment linking /2009/08/whats-faster-a-supercomputer-or-ec2-a-reconsideration/
on “What's faster - a supercomputer or EC2?”Submitted Data analysis with pandas: enjoy the awesome (2013) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted The most popular (serious) country code top-level domain still is .DE as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted GitHub: Use the 'Y' Shortcut as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted A rational explanation for the dress color confusion and hype as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Argument order for GNU find: be careful where to put actions such as -print0 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted GnuTLS vulnerability: is unit testing a matter of language culture? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sharing state in AngularJS: $watch issues and race condition prevention as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted FreeNAS buries Perl in favor of Python as a story · 1 points
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