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Simplicity is a form of art...
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Simplicity is a form of art... is a personal blog at blog.siphos.be about systems and security. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Capabilities, a short intro”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for its short introduction to Linux capabilities, cited as evidence that ping could use CAP_NET_RAW instead of setuid root. The commenter points to it as support, not as a recommendation.
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?
- Capabilities, a short intro2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-08-24
What Hacker News says?
I think it depends on the distribution: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Capabilities seems to imply that ping could be used with CAP_NET_RAW capability instead of setuid root. http://blog.siphos.be/2013/05/capabilities-a-short-intro/ suggests that as well.
Comment linking /2013/05/capabilities-a-short-intro/
on “6.0 Northern California earthquake”Submitted Switching OpenSSH to ed25519 keys as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why both chroot and SELinux? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Capabilities, a short intro as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Comparing performance with sysbench: memory, threads and mutexes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted High level explanation on some binary executable security as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Risk identification as a story · 1 points
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