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Mina Naguib

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Mina Naguib's personal blog at mina.naguib.ca covers systems and programming. Since 2012, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “The little ssh that (sometimes) couldn't”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.

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2012–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for its 2012 post 'The little ssh that sometimes couldn't', about a network file-corruption case, and for a post on PostgreSQL foreign-key locking from an app developer's view. Comments cite these as references.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

A personal blog

Most-linked posts?

  1. The little ssh that (sometimes) couldn't
    8 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2012-10-23
  2. The little SSH that sometimes couldn't (2012)
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-02-05

What Hacker News says?

  1. Obligatory read: http://mina.naguib.ca/blog/2012/10/22/the-little-ssh-that-so...

    Comment linking /blog/2012/10/22/the-little-ssh-that-sometimes-couldnt.html

    on “AT&T Fiber in the SF Bay Area is flipping bits”
  2. Submitted The little ssh that (sometimes) couldn't as a story · 508 points

    HN discussion
  3. For those unfamiliar with the issue, you can see it in action on my blog post written from the perspective of an app developer: http://mina.naguib.ca/blog/2010/11/22/postgresql-foreign-key...

    Comment linking /blog/2010/11/22/postgresql-foreign-key-deadlocks.html

    on “Postgresql 9.3 Released”
  4. Submitted The little SSH that sometimes couldn't (2012) as a story · 194 points

    HN discussion
  5. I'm super-excited that this release includes the FOR KEY SHARE lock granularity (used by foreign keys) - this is a big win for web app developers - I've blogged about it here 3 years ago: http://mina.naguib.ca/blog/2010/11/22/postgresql-foreign-key...

    Comment linking /blog/2010/11/22/postgresql-foreign-key-deadlocks.html

    on “Postgresql 9.3 Released”
  6. Submitted The little ssh that sometimes couldn't (2012) as a story · 90 points

    HN discussion
  7. The little ssh that (sometimes) couldn't: https://mina.naguib.ca/blog/2012/10/22/the-little-ssh-that-s... Discussed also here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4709438

    Comment linking /blog/2012/10/22/the-little-ssh-that-sometimes-couldnt.html

    on “Can an email go 500 miles in 2025?”
  8. Submitted The little ssh that sometimes couldn't (2012) as a story · 48 points

    HN discussion
  9. I realise you're trying to be facetious, but probably this one: http://mina.naguib.ca/blog/2012/10/22/the-little-ssh-that-so...

    Comment linking /blog/2012/10/22/the-little-ssh-that-sometimes-couldnt.html

    on “TCP is harder than it looks”
  10. Submitted The little ssh that (sometimes) couldn't as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  11. FWIW I used the word "pipe" very loosely to mean everything to the left of the interpreter. That means the unix pipe itself, but also the curl program, OS feeding it, network it's on, remote server feeding it, etc. There are several scenarios where that logical pipe can fail. It doesn't have to happen cleanly on a 64-kb unix pipe buffer boundary. Some examples may include someone bouncing an office router and all TC…

    Comment linking /blog/2012/10/22/the-little-ssh-that-sometimes-couldnt.html

    on “RainLoop Webmail: Simple, modern and fast web-based email client”
  12. Submitted The little ssh that (sometimes) couldn't as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  13. The part about the flip being mostly on a single bit reminded me of [1], I wonder if we're seeing the same cause in two different ways? [1] http://mina.naguib.ca/blog/2012/10/22/the-little-ssh-that-so...

    Comment linking /blog/2012/10/22/the-little-ssh-that-sometimes-couldnt.html

    on “Bitsquatting: DNS Hijacking without exploitation”
  14. Submitted The little SSH that sometimes couldn’t (2012) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. I've blogged about an almost exact replica of this in 2012: http://mina.naguib.ca/blog/2012/10/22/the-little-ssh-that-so... Funny enough, I'm a direct client of EdgeCast and I believe I witnessed a case of file corruption on their layer last week.

    Comment linking /blog/2012/10/22/the-little-ssh-that-sometimes-couldnt.html

    on “How Verizon fixed a recent backbone provider issue”
  16. Submitted The little ssh that (sometimes) couldn't as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. I recognize they cite the original source at the beginning of the article, but it's kind of lame to just rip an article from someone else and republish it. Original: https://mina.naguib.ca/blog/2012/10/22/the-little-ssh-that-s...

    Comment linking /blog/2012/10/22/the-little-ssh-that-sometimes-couldnt.html

    on “The little ssh that sometimes couldn't (2012)”

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