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Tyranid's Lair
Personal blog · tiraniddo.devsecuritysystems
Tyranid's Lair is a personal blog at tiraniddo.dev about security and systems. Since 2020, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Sudo on Windows a Quick Rundown”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for deep Windows internals posts, such as NTFS case sensitivity and the Native API system call table. The comments cite these posts as background and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Sudo on Windows a Quick Rundown3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-02-09
What Hacker News says?
If you enabled the posix subsystem NTFS became case sensitive as well, although most API passed a flag to disable that for Win32 file calls. It’s interesting that Microsoft effectively added the reverse feature to NTFS [1] to support per-directory case sensitive files to be more compatible with Linux. [1] https://www.tiraniddo.dev/2019/02/ntfs-case-sensitivity-on-w...
Comment linking /2019/02/ntfs-case-sensitivity-on-windows.html
on “Using the Linux kernel's Case-insensitive feature in Ext4”Submitted Sudo on Windows a Quick Rundown as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe consumers of the Native API are things like the original POSIX subsystem, the Interix POSIX subsystems, the OS/2 subsystem, the fourth POSIX subsystem used in WSLv1, NTVDMs, and of course the Win32 subsystem. Some of these were frozen long ago. The still live ones do not necessarily change in lockstep. That said, for those particular API functions there is an interesting history that is, rather, about mitigating…
Comment linking /2020/05/silent-exploit-mitigations-for-1.html
on “Windows x86-64 System Call Table (XP/2003/Vista/7/8/10/11 and Server)”Submitted Tyranid's Lair: Working Your Way Around an ACL as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sudo on Windows a Quick Rundown as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sudo on Windows – A Quick Rundown as a story · 1 points
HN discussion