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Ricard Bejarano
Personal blog · blog.bejarano.iosystemsprogramming
Ricard Bejarano's personal blog at blog.bejarano.io covers systems and programming. Since 2018, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Hardening macOS”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this macOS hardening guide as a practical reference for securing a Mac, in threads about Mac security and Defender. Comments only link to it, without judging it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Hey! I'm Ricard Bejarano. I'm a Site Reliability Engineer at Cisco, the author of The Homelab Handbook, and a builder by passion.
Most-linked posts?
- Hardening macOS4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-09-29
- How to write great container images3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-06-19
- Kubernetes, Etcd and Disk Throughput2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-07-16
What Hacker News says?
Hardening macOS https://blog.bejarano.io/hardening-macos.html Guide to Securing Apple OS X 10.10 Systems for IT Professionals: A NIST Security Configuration Checklist https://www.nist.gov/publications/guide-securing-apple-os-x-... Securing macOS in 2018 https://www.davd.eu/securing-macos/ Free OS X Security Tools https://objective-see.com/products.html Lynis - Security auditing tool for Linux, macOS, and UNIX-based…
Comment linking /hardening-macos.html
on “Ask HN: How do you secure your Mac?”Submitted Hardening macOS as a story · 159 points
HN discussionI follow some parts on Bejarano's [0]. It was discussed on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18099835 (6 months ago) macOS Security and Privacy guide [1] also a recommendation you can try. [0]: https://blog.bejarano.io/hardening-macos.html [1]: https://github.com/drduh/macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide
Comment linking /hardening-macos.html
on “Ask HN: How do you secure your Mac?”Submitted Hardening macOS (2018) as a story · 149 points
HN discussionHow about just hardening macOS installation? https://blog.bejarano.io/hardening-macos.html
Comment linking /hardening-macos.html
on “Microsoft Defender Comes to the Mac”Submitted How to write great container images as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Replacing Hchk.io with Prometheus and Pushgateway as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to write great container images as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kubernetes, Etcd and Disk Throughput as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kubernetes, Etcd and Disk Throughput as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to write great container images as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Container Misconceptions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fixing Cron Jobs in Mojave as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Enabling TLS 1.3 support in Nginx as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Domain name validation with regular expressions as a story · 1 points
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