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The Pipetogrep Blog

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The Pipetogrep Blog is a personal blog at blog.pipetogrep.org about systems, programming and writing. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “That Time I Worked With a Laptop Thief”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-11, and you can follow it by feed.

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7mentions?
3HN people?
2025–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2025

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for its guide to installing Windows NT 4 Server on Proxmox, which offers a VGA driver download. The only comment reports that the driver link is broken.

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.

I'm Chris. I blog here. I do it for me but if you enjoy it too then that makes me happy!

Most-linked posts?

  1. That Time I Worked With a Laptop Thief
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-29

What Hacker News says?

  1. The link for your ISO of the VGA driver https://blog.pipetogrep.org/downloads/win_nt_proxmox/vbempk.... doesn't work. Did you delete it or move it?

    Comment linking /downloads/win_nt_proxmox/vbempk.iso

    on “How to Install Windows NT 4 Server on Proxmox”
  2. Submitted How to Install Windows NT 4 Server on Proxmox as a story · 165 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Resurrecting iChat audio and video conferencing as a story · 113 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted That Time I Worked With a Laptop Thief as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Blogging Like It's 1998 – The Pipetogrep Blog as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted NetBSD and iBooks and Python, Oh My as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted I Worked with a Laptop Thief (2025) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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