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Valerian Saliou
Personal blog · journal.valeriansaliou.nameprogrammingsystems
Valerian Saliou's personal blog at journal.valeriansaliou.name covers programming and systems. Since 2016, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Announcing Providence: a spam filter for XMPP”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one comment, in a thread on Apple and right to repair, discusses ventilator parts restrictions and does not mention the writing. The linked posts appear to concern right to repair.
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.
Personal Journal. Tech, Business and Projects.
Most-linked posts?
- Announcing Providence: a spam filter for XMPP2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-12-03
- MakAir: The Inception of an Open-Source Ventilator Project2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-04-02
What Hacker News says?
My recollection is that there was an intentional limit on what parts were compatible with what ventilators, essentially DRM or filter tying/bundling. This denied healthcare facilities the flexibility to pair consumable components from third-party manufacturers with a specific ventilator. (I've been looking for articles to support this without joy so far, though there were numerous articles on "open source" ventilato…
Comment linking /makair-series-the-inception-of-an-open-source-ventilator-project/
on “Apple fucked us on right to repair (again)”Submitted Show HN: Bloom, a REST API Caching Middleware as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Prose: Decentralized Team Messaging in an Era of Centralized SaaS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted MakAir: The Inception of an Open-Source Ventilator Project as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Distill: Transcend, a Primer on How to Liver Longer and Better as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Announcing Providence: a spam filter for XMPP as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sonic: A Super-Light Alternative to Elasticsearch as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Engineering Focus on Ventilator Software as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Announcing Providence: A Spam Filter for XMPP as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
