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Steve's Blog
Personal blog · simbimbo.wordpress.comhardwaresystems
Steve's Blog is a personal blog at simbimbo.wordpress.com about hardware and systems. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “96 MacBook Pro’s in one server rack”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts about a server rack of 96 MacBook Pros and an earlier Mac mini setup, including a Q&A answering questions about the rack. Comments only cite them as sources.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- 96 MacBook Pro’s in one server rack2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-07-29
What Hacker News says?
Here is a QA where he answers some of the main questions we all have in mind. https://simbimbo.wordpress.com/2012/12/11/102/
Comment linking /2012/12/11/102/
on “96 MacBook Pro’s in one server rack”Submitted 96 MacBook Pro’s in one server rack as a story · 118 points
HN discussionNo idea what they do, but they had a mac mini setup in the past: https://simbimbo.wordpress.com/2012/12/07/in-production/
Comment linking /2012/12/07/in-production/
on “96 MacBook Pro’s in one server rack”Not very related, but it reminds me that there are a lot of people who rack Mac Pros in data centers. Not Mac Mini. Mac Pros. Yes, the cylinder one. I guess it's mostly for graphics and rendering capabilities or when testing requires the original machines. People come up with all sorts of tricks because it is very inefficient - like vents [1] - or this other company who 3D-printed pieces to keep the Macbook Pros ope…
Comment linking /2015/07/24/well-im-at-it-again-this-time-with-macbook-pros/
on “OS X 10.11 buffer overflow with deep filesystem hierarchy”