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Craig Younkins
Personal blog · cyounkins.medium.comsystemssecurity
Craig Younkins's personal blog at cyounkins.medium.com covers systems and security. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Costs and Benefits of Local DNSSEC Validation”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-11-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked post, from the thread "Life after Heroku," covers what developers can do next after Heroku. One commenter discusses monthly hosting costs, comparing a $5 DigitalOcean droplet to a $20 Wikipedia donation.
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?
- Costs and Benefits of Local DNSSEC Validation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-20
- Jimmy Wales’ Final Email2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-09
What Hacker News says?
Depends on the pub ;) But this is very true. Actually, there's a whole set of mental heuristics that are evolving in my head surrounding monthly-recurring-discretionary-fixed-costs, as compared with the cost of a $BEVERAGE at the $VENUE. It runs the gamut from a $5/mo DO droplet, which costs a Bier vom Fass in your average pub in Germany and grants me a public-facing static IP, to a $20/mo donation to Wikipedia, whi…
Comment linking /jimmy-wales-final-email-de36f39bfbbd
on “Life after Heroku: What's a dev to do?”Submitted Jimmy Wales’ Final Email as a story · 334 points
HN discussionI've written a bit about DNSSEC. Adoption is only around 1-5%, deployment is a footgun [1], and validation currently imposes significant performance penalties [2], although that could be improved. I've also written about performance of DNS over TLS [3] and found it to be negligible. The TLS setup is only done infrequently. [1] https://ianix.com/pub/dnssec-outages.html [2] https://cyounkins.medium.com/costs-and-benef…
Comment linking /performance-of-dns-over-tls-4f4b8f938bc
on “Encrypted DNS and NTP = Deadlock”Submitted Correct Backups Require Filesystem Snapshots as a story · 50 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hit me with a wrench all you want, I can’t tell you my password as a story · 37 points
HN discussionSubmitted Performance of DNS-over-TLS as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Costs and Benefits of Local DNSSEC Validation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Working with Large Datasets in Postgres as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Costs and benefits of local DNSSEC validation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Encrypted DNS and NTP = Deadlock as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Are these DNS responses fresh? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fixing Broken SSH / X11 Forwarding with Tmux (and Fish) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion