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Mark S. Rasmussen

Personal blog · improve.dk · on HN as orcadkprogrammingsystems

Mark S. Rasmussen's personal blog at improve.dk covers programming and systems. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.

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4HN people?
2011–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The linked post explains how to set up and serve private content through AWS signed URLs. One comment suggests using a custom access policy to restrict a signed URL to a specific IP address.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

The author on HN?

orcadk · 129 karma · member since 2011

Has a secret love affair with SQL Server internals. Author of OrcaMDF. Speaker, consultant, SQL Server & C# groupie. CTO @ iPaper A/S. Blogging at http://improve.dk

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What Hacker News says?

  1. With a custom access policy, it would be pretty easy to specify the IP address allowed for a specific signed URL[0]. This would help to mitigate the risk factor mentioned in point 5 above. [0] http://improve.dk/how-to-set-up-and-serve-private-content-us...

    Comment linking /how-to-set-up-and-serve-private-content-using-s3/

    on “Ask HN: My Solution for Securing Paywalled Videos with AWS”
  2. Submitted Pushing the Limits of Amazon S3 Upload Performance as a story · 89 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Pushing the Limits of Amazon S3 Upload Performance (2011) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Creating Multiplexers Using Logic Gates as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Adding 6+7 At The Logic Gate Level as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted SQL Server Corruption Recovery - When All Else Fails as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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