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Neel Chauhan
Personal blog · neelc.org/postssecuritysystemsweb
Neel Chauhan's personal blog at neelc.org covers security, systems and web. Since 2021, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “Setting up a Signal Proxy using FreeBSD”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Neel Chauhan's blog covers networking hardware and router setups, including FreeBSD on an HP T740 thin client. One commenter links a post from it as a low-cost hardware option in a PC Engines EOL thread.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Setting up a Signal Proxy using FreeBSD2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-02-06
What Hacker News says?
When I had CenturyLink, I replaced the ONT via a JTAG cable on the new ONT. The stock CL ONT (Calix 716GE-I R2) had a 16384 connection limit, which prevented me from running high-bandwidth Tor relays. The new ONT (Calix 803G) did not. Calix for some reason makes it easy to clone some models. I have a post on this: https://www.neelc.org/posts/clone-calix-ont/ Now I'm in NYC with Verizon Fios where I don't need a clon…
Comment linking /posts/clone-calix-ont/
on “Hack GPON – how to access, change and edit fibre ONTs”Submitted Web3 is centralized and inefficient as a story · 801 points
HN discussion$200 ODROID dual NIC H3/H3+ Intel Jasper Lake, https://ameridroid.com/products/odroid-h3 $400 HP T740 Ryzen Embedded thin client from eBay, add Intel PCIe quad port NIC, https://www.neelc.org/posts/hp-t740-freebsd/ $800 OPNsense Ryzen Embedded 10GbE router, https://wiki.junicast.de/en/junicast/review/opnsense_dec740
Comment linking /posts/hp-t740-freebsd/
on “PC Engines EOL”Submitted I'm done with coding as a story · 163 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why not to whitelist operating system user agents as a story · 147 points
HN discussionSubmitted When Your Fiber ISP's 'Dumb' Device Screws Your TCP Sessions as a story · 63 points
HN discussionSubmitted I run a personal IPv6 BGP network. Netflix is blocking a /64 of our /36. Why? as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unpopular Opinion: I hate ThinkPads and there are better laptops for me as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mastodon vs. Bluesky is a new standards war as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Twitter and Reddit: All Social Media Sites Will Die (and Get Replaced) as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted HP Ink Fiasco: Printer manufacturers shouldn't sell ink or toner as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Mastodon and the Fediverse “Failed” as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Have an ASN and IPv6 space? Build your own IPv6 tunnel as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building my own HPE SAS cable from Amazon because HPE won't sell me one as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Edward Snowden Leaks: 10 Years Later as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tuning Power Consumption on FreeBSD Laptops and Intel 6th Gen and Later as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How not to handle your website's customer service: A story as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to DoS and Take Down Your GPON Fiber Modem/ONT with Small Packets as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted CenturyLink Fiber, Tor Relays, Ping Spikes, and Packet Loss as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted CenturyLink Advertises Fiber in Seattle neighborhoods that don't have it as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Setting up a Signal Proxy using FreeBSD as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tech is a cyclical industry: booms and busts are normal as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted My High School banned Phones in 2011 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google Web Environment Integrity Is the New Microsoft Trusted Computing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Decline of Net Neutrality Activism as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bypassing Gmail's spam filters with ChatGPT as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What the housing shortage can teach us about crypto as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Get on the Front Page of Hacker News as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Setup Signal Proxy Using FreeBSD as a story · 1 points
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