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vitavonni.de is a personal blog at vitavonni.de about security, programming and data. Since 2012, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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18mentions?
16HN people?
2012–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2015

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for a post on flat dependency resolution in npm v3. One commenter quotes its argument against constraint solving in package managers, favouring build-time feature tests instead.

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?

  1. The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015)
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-05-16
  2. The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-03-12

What Hacker News says?

  1. >This is what we did with Dart's package manager[1]. It works like Bundler where it finds a single set of package versions that satisfy all of the constraints and there are no duplicate packages. Constraint solving is the status quo, and I am strongly opposed to it. Rather than saying "I want foo >= 1.0" in a package manager, you should have the build system test the environment for the features you need. This is wh…

    Comment linking /blog/201503/2015031201-the-sad-state-of-sysadmin-in-the-age-of-containers.html

    on “Flat Tree Dependency Resolution in Npm v3”
  2. Submitted The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers as a story · 970 points

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  3. Submitted The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) as a story · 558 points

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  4. Submitted The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) as a story · 428 points

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  5. Submitted Avoiding systemd isn't hard as a story · 170 points

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  6. Submitted The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers as a story · 82 points

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  7. Submitted Your big data toolchain is a big security risk as a story · 71 points

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  8. Submitted The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) as a story · 15 points

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  9. Submitted The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) as a story · 4 points

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  10. Submitted Are likes still worth anything? as a story · 4 points

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  11. Submitted Big Data madness and reality as a story · 3 points

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  12. Submitted Chinese Citation Factory as a story · 2 points

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  13. Submitted Stop abusing lambda expressions – this is not functional programming as a story · 2 points

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  14. Submitted Debian chooses systemd as default init as a story · 2 points

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  15. Submitted DMOZ dieing as a story · 2 points

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  16. Submitted Machine Learning Lecture Recordings [video] (English Slides, German Audio) as a story · 1 points

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  17. Submitted Analyzing Twitter – beware of spam as a story · 1 points

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  18. Submitted Migrating from GNOME3 to XFCE as a story · 1 points

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