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Personal blog · msol.io/blogsystemsprogramming

msol is a personal blog at msol.io about systems and programming. Since 2014, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “I doubled my Internet speed with OpenWRT”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.

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13mentions?
6HN people?
2014–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2015

Most-linked posts?

  1. I doubled my Internet speed with OpenWRT
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-05-16
  2. Dirt-cheap client-encrypted online backups with Raspberry Pi
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-01-07

What Hacker News says?

  1. And then you remember you set up an automated encrypted backup to the cloud and thank your past-self. Now is the time to do it if you're not doing this: https://msol.io/blog/tech/dirt-cheap-client-encrypted-online...

    Comment linking /blog/tech/dirt-cheap-client-encrypted-online-backups-with-raspberry-pi/

    on “An off-grid social network”
  2. Submitted How I doubled my Internet speed with OpenWRT as a story · 363 points

    HN discussion
  3. It depends on the implementation details. Comcasts implementation had a separate wifi chip that was separate from the customer wifi network for its network. I remember reading some years ago some hackers managed to spoof its Mac Address to double their bandwidth with interface bonding... Found one: https://msol.io/blog/tech/how-i-doubled-my-internet-speed-wi...

    Comment linking /blog/tech/how-i-doubled-my-internet-speed-with-openwrt/

    on “Cox Hotspots with Panoramic Wifi”
  4. Submitted Downsides of Caching as a story · 80 points

    HN discussion
  5. Yeah I was having the same thought on the web form and if it brings additional overhead maintenance, testing, etc which to me would be the same as trying to get some form of PGP working across mail clients. > Having said that, if the problem is the limited PGP infrastructure then I don't see how an ad-hoc protocol that uses the same certificates as the site's HTTPS cert is going to get more adoption. This is the onl…

    Comment linking /blog/tech/create-a-self-signed-ssl-certificate-with-openssl/

    on “Security.txt file now mandatory for Dutch government websites”
  6. Submitted Mac Productivity Tips for Developers as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted How to win when you're small as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Nietzsche would write clickbait as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Dirt-cheap client-encrypted online backups with Raspberry Pi as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Work more efficiently on your Mac (for developers) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted I doubled my Internet speed with OpenWRT as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Pro-style testing as a story · 1 points

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  13. Submitted Pro-style testing as a story · 1 points

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