Vivian Voss

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Vivian Voss's personal blog at vivianvoss.net covers systems, programming and philosophy. Since 2026, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.

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HN readers link Vivian Voss's posts and her FreeBSD book, Integrated by Design, which argues for FreeBSD over Linux, along with posts on FreeBSD security and releases. One commenter read its sample chapters.

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Vivian Voss. System Architect and Software Developer. 37 years in the game. Building ultralight web tools inspired by the demoscene and guided by Unix philosophy. Using AI to engineer, educate and validate, not to replicate the bloat faster.

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tonyoconnell · 2026-04-28Recommends
Here's a link to a few sample chapters https://vivianvoss.net/assets/files/integrated-by-design-pre... I enjoyed reading them - they presented a very clear arguement to select FreeBSD over Linux
Comment linking /assets/files/integrated-by-design-preview.pdf
on “New Integrated by Design FreeBSD Book”
speckx · 2026-04-20
Submitted We Accepted Surveillance as Default as a story · 23 points
HN discussion
big_toast · 2026-04-28
The page about the earnings[0] is interesting. The Amazon share for kindle edition is higher than I expected. [0]: https://vivianvoss.net/print/integrated-by-design
Comment linking /print/integrated-by-design
on “New Integrated by Design FreeBSD Book”
vermaden · 2026-04-27
Submitted New Integrated by Design FreeBSD Book as a story · 20 points
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alwillis · 2026-03-10
> and approaches Linux performance in some areas (e.g. Networking) FreeBSD has been the gold standard for networking features and performance for decades; not sure I'd agree. > FreeBSD tends to have fewer features in almost all areas compared to Linux I'm not sure FreeBSD has fewer features in total but on a new install, many of them are turned off; it doesn’t mandate what should be running. There's a lot beneath th…
Comment linking /blog/init-vs-systemd
on “FreeBSD 14.4-Release Announcement”
speckx · 2026-06-04
Submitted Unix, Everything Is a File as a story · 3 points
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angry_octet · 2026-08-09
I can think of better straw men. But if they had approached their task with half the seriousness of the openssh maintainers then they probably wouldn't be failing to check the return value of authentication functions. OpenSSH authors have spent considerable effort separating concerns, reducing privileges, process isolation, etc. So I would say they have been planning for potential bugs. These techniques are very muc…
Comment linking /blog/technical-beauty-openssh
on “Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face”
vermaden · 2026-03-06
Submitted Technical Beauty: FreeBSD Jails as a story · 3 points
HN discussion
thedatamonger · 2026-03-10
Some further digging ... ------- $ dig vivianvoss.net A +short @8.8.8.8 78.46.78.181 $ curl -v4 https://vivianvoss.net/ 2>&1 | grep -E "Connected|error" * Connected to vivianvoss.net (78.46.78.181) port 443 * OpenSSL/3.0.13: error:0A00010B:SSL routines::wrong version number $ curl -s https://ipinfo.io | grep org "org": "AS7922 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC", Same IP you're hitting, same port, but Comcast's xFi A…
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on “FreeBSD Capsicum vs. Linux Seccomp Process Sandboxing”
speckx · 2026-10-22
Submitted Php2shell Needs a Shell as a story · 2 points
HN discussion
thedatamonger · 2026-03-09
$ dig vivianvoss.net A +short @ns11.infomaniak.ch. 78.46.78.181 $ curl -v https://vivianvoss.net/ 2>&1 | tail -3 * OpenSSL/3.0.13: error:0A00010B:SSL routines::wrong version number * Closing connection curl: (35) OpenSSL/3.0.13: error:0A00010B:SSL routines::wrong version number $ curl -v http://vivianvoss.net/ 2>&1 | grep Location < Location: https://www.safebrowse.io/warn.html?url=http://vivianvoss.ne... $ whois 78…
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on “FreeBSD Capsicum vs. Linux Seccomp Process Sandboxing”
speckx · 2026-10-06
Submitted The ZFS a Linux Developer Sent to FreeBSD as a story · 2 points
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speckx · 2026-07-23
Submitted The Build Step Nobody Ordered as a story · 2 points
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speckx · 2026-05-11
Submitted We Render Everything in the Browser as a story · 2 points
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speckx · 2026-05-01
Submitted The Subscription You Did Not Ask For as a story · 2 points
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speckx · 2026-10-12
Submitted Precious Linux Binaries Run on FreeBSD as a story · 1 points
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QuantumNomad_ · 2026-04-28
Submitted We Measure Tickets, Not Problems Prevented as a story · 1 points
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alwillis · 2026-03-31
Submitted The .env File Nobody Needs as a story · 1 points
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alwillis · 2026-03-09
Submitted SSH Config: The File Nobody Reads as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
vermaden · 2026-03-09
Submitted FreeBSD Capsicum vs. Linux Seccomp Process Sandboxing as a story · 1 points
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