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Zach Bloomquist

Personal blog · zach.bloomqu.ist/blogsystemshardware

Zach Bloomquist's personal blog at zach.bloomqu.ist covers systems and hardware. Since 2019, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Pilo: Raspberry Pi-Powered Lights-Out Remote Server Management”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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7mentions?
6HN people?
2019–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2020

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog's "Terminal Server on a Budget" post, which covers setting up a home terminal server. The commenter cites it alongside a WireGuard guide for keeping a tunnel alive through a home router.

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. Pilo: Raspberry Pi-Powered Lights-Out Remote Server Management
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-20
  2. Creating a Site-to-Site WireGuard VPN for a Home Server
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-11-02
  3. Reliable, Deliverable, Self-Hosted Email
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-09

What Hacker News says?

  1. jjice · 2020-07-23
    I didn't have to touch my router settings at all. There are a million guides out there, but I used this one [0]. I'm not sure about the keep alive, but I'm assuming it's this setting that they mention in the guide: # Ensures that your home router does not kill the tunnel, by sending a ping # every 25 seconds. PersistentKeepalive = 25 I set up the server .conf, ran wg-quick up wg0, and then did the same on the client…

    Comment linking /blog/2019/11/site-to-site-wireguard-vpn.html

    on “Terminal Server on a Budget”
  2. gilad · 2020-08-21

    Submitted Pilo: Raspberry Pi-Powered Lights-Out Remote Server Management as a story · 120 points

    HN discussion
  3. flotwig · 2019-11-02

    Submitted Creating a Site-to-Site WireGuard VPN for a Home Server as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  4. thunderbong · 2021-07-09

    Submitted Reliable, Deliverable, Self-Hosted Email as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. todsacerdoti · 2020-08-20

    Submitted Pilo: Raspberry Pi Powered Lights-Out Remote Server Management for $60 or Less as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  6. dmytton · 2021-07-14

    Submitted Reliable, Deliverable, Self-Hosted Email as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. flotwig · 2020-11-10

    Submitted Replacing my phone battery with a cheap AliExpress knock-off as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion

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