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nns.ee
Personal blog · nns.ee/blog · on HN as xx_nssecuritysystems
nns.ee is a personal blog at nns.ee about security and systems. Since 2020, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “This Blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog post about a blog hosted on a GPS/LTE modem. Comments discuss whether the setup can survive front-page traffic and what server software and hardware it runs.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- This Blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-04-01
- /blog/status.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-04-02
What Hacker News says?
Yes it can survive the HN hug of death. I speak as a software engineer whose blog has hit the HN frontpage multiple times, and who has optimized my blog to be static & lightweight, just like the author. In my experience, a front-page HN post (in the top 3) leads to 30-40 page hits per second. The page at https://nns.ee/blog/2021/04/01/modem-blog.html weights 44.4 kB transferred (HTML, CSS, images, fonts, etc, all co…
Comment linking /blog/2021/04/01/modem-blog.html
on “This Blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem”Submitted This Blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem as a story · 711 points
HN discussionI see nginx there too. % curl -I https://nns.ee/blog/status.html HTTP/2 200 server: nginx date: Fri, 02 Apr 2021 14:48:48 GMT content-type: text/html content-length: 8754 last-modified: Fri, 02 Apr 2021 14:48:31 GMT etag: "60672ebf-2232" accept-ranges: bytes
Comment linking /blog/status.html
on “This Blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem”Submitted Running a full desktop environment on a Kindle (2019) as a story · 197 points
HN discussionCould be. The statuspage from the device shows darkhttpd as the server, not nginx: https://nns.ee/blog/status.html
Comment linking /blog/status.html
on “This Blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem”Submitted Code execution as root via AT commands on the Quectel EG25-G modem (2021) as a story · 79 points
HN discussionQuectel EG25-G is running linux https://nns.ee/blog/2021/04/01/modem-blog.html
Comment linking /blog/2021/04/01/modem-blog.html
on “Google: Turn off VoLTE, Wi-Fi calling: severe Exynos modem vulnerabilities”Submitted Don't trust comments as a story · 58 points
HN discussionIn a similar vein, two years ago I set up my blog to run on a GPS/LTE modem inside a phone. https://nns.ee/modem-blog
Comment linking /modem-blog
on “This Blog is hosted on my Android phone”Submitted Abusing container mount points on MikroTik's RouterOS to gain code execution as a story · 54 points
HN discussionUsable enough to run a Linux DE on it! I did so on my blog: https://nns.ee/kindle
Comment linking /kindle
on “Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eInk development platform”Submitted Hosting a Blog on a GPS Modem as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI recently discovered a vulnerability and jailbroke RouterOS 7.4 (beta). As far as I know, this is the latest jailbreak for RouterOS (as of today): https://nns.ee/blog/2022/08/05/routeros-container-rce.html
Comment linking /blog/2022/08/05/routeros-container-rce.html
on “Pulling MikroTik into the Limelight Demystifying and Jailbreaking RouterS”Submitted Running Arch Linux on OpenWRT (Lede) Routers as a story · 2 points
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