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raby.sh is a personal blog at raby.sh about systems and programming. Since 2023, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Installing OpenBSD on OVH's VPS 2016 KVM machines. (2015)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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4mentions?
4HN people?
2023–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2024

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link raby.sh posts on low-level systems topics: writing a PID 1 init in Go under QEMU, why SIGTERM is ignored for PID 1 in containers, and installing NetBSD or OpenBSD over SSH.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Home of a rock climber and unix enthusiast: bouldering videos and linux debugging stories, more or less...

Most-linked posts?

  1. Installing OpenBSD on OVH's VPS 2016 KVM machines. (2015)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-24

What Hacker News says?

  1. preisschild · 2025-12-11
    Another "interesting" related thing I found is that pid 1 signals are handled differently in the kernel. Basically, SIGTERM is ignored and you need to explicitly handle it in your program. Took me quite a while before I found out why my program in a container didn't quit gracefully... https://raby.sh/sigterm-and-pid-1-why-does-a-container-linge...

    Comment linking /sigterm-and-pid-1-why-does-a-container-linger-after-receiving-a-sigterm.html

    on “Booting Linux in QEMU and Writing PID 1 in Go to Illustrate Kernel as Program”
  2. Bluestein · 2024-07-26

    Submitted Installing OpenBSD on OVH's VPS 2016 KVM machines. (2015) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. j_not_j · 2024-07-24
    Offtopic: OpenBSD has an installation ramdisk. Just boot that. See https://raby.sh/installing-openbsd-on-ovhs-vps-2016-kvm-mach... I've also seen "dd if=path/to/install/ramdisk /dev/sd0" and reboot; depends on being classic BIOS not uefi. Can't find the link tho.

    Comment linking /installing-openbsd-on-ovhs-vps-2016-kvm-machines.html

    on “From Linux to NetBSD, with SSH Only”
  4. nelblu · 2023-03-18

    Submitted Lord of the Rings – Audiobook Soundscape by Phil Dragash as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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