Work in progress: 181,232 of 181,233 sites checked so far, more every week · updated 2 Nov 2026Missing a blog? Tell us

Top all-time · #13085

J

Jason Bayton

Personal blog · bayton.orgsecuritysystems

Jason Bayton's personal blog at bayton.org covers security and systems. Since 2016, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.

Visit the blog
6mentions?
6HN people?
2016–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2026

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Jason Bayton's blog for practical tech how-tos, such as updating rsync on macOS. The comments cite the post as a guide and do not judge the writing itself.

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.

The website of Jason Bayton

What Hacker News says?

  1. > Are there any good alternatives? You might want try the RWG Mobile app [1][2]. Although I have only used it within the UK, they appear to give you a real number rather than VOIP number. I'm not sure if this applies to the US or Canada, but you could check with them. One of the main reasons I started using the app was because it was the only one I could find that could successfully receive 2FA SMSs. Another reason…

    Comment linking /2016/07/using-rwg-mobile-for-simple-cross-device-centralised-voicemail/

    on “Updates to our Google Voice apps”
  2. Submitted Google Play Protect is now the custom DPC gatekeeper, and everyone is a threat as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. It has 12 year old rsync due to Apple not wanting to ship anything that's GPLv3: https://bayton.org/2018/07/how-to-update-rsync-on-mac-os-hig...

    Comment linking /2018/07/how-to-update-rsync-on-mac-os-high-sierra/

    on “Openrsync imported into the tree”
  4. Submitted LXD, ZFS and bridged networking on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS+ as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Hands on with the Nextcloud Box as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted MDM is dead. Long live ACE? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

Search all of HN for bayton.org