Tony Finch

Most-linked posts?

1. Leap second hiatus
   2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-11-13
2. What Is a Subdomain?
   2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-01
3. A Curious Perl Quine
   2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-04-04

What Hacker News says?

1. fanf2 · 2018-08-06

   If you use BIND you can set an UPDATE ACL that allows your web server access to change acme challenges only: https://fanf.dreamwidth.org/123294.html

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   on “Let's Encrypt Root Trusted by All Major Root Programs”
2. ckarmann · 2020-11-19

   Submitted Leap second hiatus as a story · 183 points

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3. fanf2 · 2019-04-04

   It is slightly more complicated than that :-) https://fanf.dreamwidth.org/131318.html the actual parse is division->Illegal( zero->by( ((“at” / “tmp”) / “quine”) . line->pl(1.0) ))

   Comment linking /131318.html

   on “93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs”
4. fanf2 · 2020-12-06

   Submitted Vanishing zeroes for geometric algebra in Rust as a story · 57 points

   HN discussion
5. fanf2 · 2021-06-02

   Here’s a bit of clock-related JS animation I did many years ago, which helps to explain how the LED hands work on the Corpus chronophage clock: https://dotat.at/random/clock.html more words on my blog: https://fanf.dreamwidth.org/93037.html I also wrote some notes on a talk given by John Taylor on how he made the Corpus clock https://fanf.dreamwidth.org/96948.html The Wikipedia page asserts that the clock is purely…

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   on “Corpus Clock”
6. AndrewDucker · 2024-10-24

   Submitted Against /Tmp as a story · 14 points

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7. fanf2 · 2020-09-22

   Erlang's bitstring syntax has some weird endianness behaviour: it's biased to big-endian and can do weird things with non-byte-aligned little-endian strings. Here's an example based on the old 26-bit ARM program counter - https://fanf.dreamwidth.org/77938.html Some years ago there was some nice work on adding bitdata support to Haskell, aimed at the kinds of things operating systems need to do with hardware (rather…

   Comment linking /132484.html

   on “Bitstring Matching and Construction in OCaml”
8. AndrewDucker · 2022-07-04

   Submitted Tolower() in Bulk at Speed as a story · 9 points

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9. fanf2 · 2021-01-09

   Previously on my blog: https://fanf.dreamwidth.org/133823.html Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25145870

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   on “Earth is whipping around quicker than it has in a half-century”
10. fanf2 · 2020-11-13

    Submitted Leap Second Hiatus as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
11. fanf2 · 2022-11-17

    Submitted Faster DNS Name Decompression as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
12. zdw · 2021-03-01

    Submitted What Is a Subdomain? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
13. AndrewDucker · 2025-09-11

    Submitted First-class merges and cover letters as a story · 2 points

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14. AndrewDucker · 2024-05-08

    Submitted Sudon't as a story · 2 points

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15. AndrewDucker · 2022-06-23

    Submitted Compacting a Qp-Trie (for BIND) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
16. AndrewDucker · 2021-03-02

    Submitted What Is a Subdomain? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
17. dsr_ · 2019-01-11

    Submitted Open Source as a Byproduct as a story · 2 points

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18. okket · 2018-10-15

    Submitted DNS-OARC Amsterdam day 2 as a story · 2 points

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19. AndrewDucker · 2022-12-06

    Submitted An Update on Leap Seconds as a story · 1 points

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20. beefhash · 2019-09-12

    Submitted Uplift from SCCS to Git (2014) as a story · 1 points

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21. hk__2 · 2019-04-05

    Submitted A Curious Perl Quine as a story · 1 points

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