Top Hackernews posts from utcc.utoronto.ca

1. Everything that uses configuration files should report where they're located (utcc.utoronto.ca)
   1744 points by ingve over 3 years | 472 comments
2. Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choice, not a practical one (utcc.utoronto.ca)
   664 points by throw0101a almost 5 years | 510 comments
3. Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better (utcc.utoronto.ca)
   382 points by ingve almost 3 years | 247 comments
4. Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for accounts (utcc.utoronto.ca)
   332 points by throw0101b over 2 years | 440 comments
5. A realization of why email is critical infrastructure for the Internet (utcc.utoronto.ca)
   316 points by deafcalculus over 4 years | 253 comments
6. We are stuck with egrep and fgrep (unless you like beating people) (utcc.utoronto.ca)
   310 points by GrumpySloth almost 4 years | 342 comments
7. Go 1.16 will make system calls through Libc on OpenBSD (utcc.utoronto.ca)
   298 points by lladnar over 5 years | 189 comments
8. The theory versus the practice of “static websites” (utcc.utoronto.ca)
   291 points by ingve about 3 years | 210 comments
9. Chrome may start restricting requests to private networks (utcc.utoronto.ca)
   267 points by zdw almost 5 years | 269 comments
10. Go 1.17 is deprecating the traditional use of 'go get' (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    265 points by nitinreddy88 over 5 years | 215 comments
11. The appeal of using plain HTML pages (2019) (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    260 points by todsacerdoti over 4 years | 207 comments
12. Ubuntu 22.04 LTS servers and phased apt updates (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    256 points by goranmoomin over 3 years | 111 comments
13. That people produce HTML with string templates is telling us something (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    232 points by ingve over 3 years | 387 comments
14. We might want to regularly keep track of how important each server is (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    226 points by pabs3 over 2 years | 143 comments
15. Why V7 Unix matters so much (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    218 points by zdw almost 5 years | 93 comments
16. Stack size invisibility in C and the effects on "portability" (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    215 points by todsacerdoti almost 5 years | 215 comments
17. Linux Certificate Authority root stores have a too simple view of 'trust' (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    211 points by pabs3 almost 4 years | 118 comments
18. Go 1.18 will embed source version information into binaries (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    208 points by nnx almost 5 years | 91 comments
19. An aggressive, stealthy web spider operating from Microsoft IP space (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    203 points by ingve over 3 years | 118 comments
20. I'm unsure of the security of simultaneous multithreading on modern x86 CPUs (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    195 points by zdw almost 5 years | 116 comments
21. C was not created as an abstract machine (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    195 points by pabs3 over 3 years | 216 comments
22. A peculiarity of the X Window System: Windows all the way down (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    194 points by ingve over 2 years | 122 comments
23. Go 1.21 will (likely) have a static toolchain on Linux (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    190 points by ingve over 3 years | 141 comments
24. PyPy has been working for me for several years now (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    187 points by throw0101c over 2 years | 102 comments
25. OpenSSH versus SSH (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    183 points by ingve over 3 years | 96 comments
26. The long life of Apache httpd 2.4 (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    178 points by ingve over 3 years | 146 comments
27. Unix shells are generally not viable access control mechanisms any more (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    174 points by ingve about 3 years | 141 comments
28. Where Linux's load average comes from in the kernel (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    172 points by zdw over 4 years | 38 comments
29. Why “process substitution” is a late feature in Unix shells (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    168 points by r4um over 4 years | 82 comments
30. Learning that you can use unions in C for grouping things into namespaces (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    167 points by deafcalculus about 5 years | 147 comments
31. AMD Killed the Itanium (2005) (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    164 points by todsacerdoti over 3 years | 239 comments
32. Sometimes it actually is a kernel bug: bind() in Linux 6.0.16 (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    162 points by zdw over 3 years | 75 comments
33. Safari is now probably the influential wild card browser for user privacy (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    161 points by goranmoomin over 5 years | 322 comments
34. I've mostly stopped reading technical mailing lists (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    158 points by zdw over 3 years | 83 comments
35. The pervasive effects of C's malloc() and free() on C APIs (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    154 points by todsacerdoti about 4 years | 104 comments
36. In Go, pointers (mostly) don't go with slices in practice (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    146 points by deafcalculus about 5 years | 95 comments
37. Browsers barely care what HTTP status code your web pages are served with (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    142 points by pabs3 about 3 years | 207 comments
38. Text consoles and framebuffer consoles in Linux (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    138 points by hdjjhhvvhga over 4 years | 48 comments
39. Large scale Internet SSH brute force attacks seem to have stopped here (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    138 points by pabs3 about 4 years | 119 comments
40. I've had bad luck with transparent hugepages on my Linux machines (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    134 points by ingve over 3 years | 75 comments
41. The history of sending signals to Unix process groups (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    129 points by r4um about 4 years | 60 comments
42. On the future of free long term support for Linux distributions (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    128 points by ingve about 3 years | 109 comments
43. I wish systemd logged information about the source of “transactions” (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    127 points by zdw almost 5 years | 77 comments
44. V7 Unix had no stack size limit, and when Unix acquired one (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    127 points by kelseyfrog almost 5 years | 42 comments
45. Nil in Go is typed in theory and sort of untyped in practice (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    127 points by goranmoomin over 5 years | 68 comments
46. I can't recommend serious use of an all-in-one local Grafana Loki setup (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    126 points by ink_13 over 3 years | 93 comments
47. Go 1.21 will (probably) download newer toolchains on demand by default (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    126 points by todsacerdoti over 3 years | 96 comments
48. Unix is both a technology and an idea (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    125 points by zdw about 3 years | 91 comments
49. Some notes on Firefox’s media autoplay settings in practice as of Firefox 124 (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    124 points by ingve over 2 years | 117 comments
50. An instruction oddity in the ppc64 (PowerPC 64-bit) architecture (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    123 points by zdw over 3 years | 29 comments
51. Monitoring your logs is mostly a tarpit (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    119 points by signa11 about 3 years | 116 comments
52. We're moving away from swap partitions on our Linux servers (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    118 points by todsacerdoti almost 4 years | 152 comments
53. Running servers and services well is not trivial (2018) (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    117 points by rognjen over 4 years | 86 comments
54. Unix's technical history is mostly old now (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    116 points by ingve almost 4 years | 126 comments
55. In practice, cool URLs can become inaccessible even if they don't change (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    116 points by ingve about 3 years | 53 comments
56. Filesystems can experience at least three different sorts of errors (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    115 points by zdw over 4 years | 17 comments
57. Options for genuine ECC RAM on the desktop in (early) 2024 (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    115 points by ingve over 2 years | 108 comments
58. How secure is merely discarding (TRIMing) all of a SSD's blocks? (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    114 points by goranmoomin over 3 years | 114 comments
59. Rust 1.x seems to not always be backward compatible in practice (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    113 points by sdht0 over 5 years | 113 comments
60. Modern software controls dependencies because it helps software authors (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    111 points by todsacerdoti over 5 years | 108 comments
61. Two types of C programmers (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    111 points by susam over 3 years | 218 comments
62. Firefox on Unix is moving away from X11-based remote control (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    109 points by signa11 almost 5 years | 180 comments
63. How we wound up with Linux's kernel mode setting ('KMS') (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    108 points by fcambus over 4 years | 30 comments
64. Systemd auto-restarts of units can hide problems from you (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    108 points by ingve about 3 years | 104 comments
65. The technical merits of Wayland are mostly irrelevant (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    107 points by ingve about 3 years | 199 comments
66. Ten years isn't long enough for maximum age settings (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    106 points by ingve over 2 years | 59 comments
67. Go 1.21 may have a clear(x) builtin (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    104 points by aviramha almost 4 years | 126 comments
68. File Locks on Linux (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    100 points by miohtama over 3 years | 46 comments
69. Unix shells and the current directory (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    99 points by ingve almost 3 years | 26 comments
70. Web CGI programs aren't particularly slow these days (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    99 points by PaulHoule over 2 years | 94 comments
71. TLS certificates have at least two internal representations of time (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    97 points by throw0101a over 5 years | 50 comments
72. The history of Unix's confusing set of low-level ways to allocate memory (2018) (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    97 points by jaytaylor almost 5 years | 26 comments
73. Most websites are implicitly designed with a short lifetime (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    96 points by todsacerdoti over 4 years | 81 comments
74. Seeing how fast people will probe you after you get a new TLS certificate (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    96 points by jyunwai almost 3 years | 40 comments
75. Modern HDDs have gotten somewhat better (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    95 points by goranmoomin over 4 years | 147 comments
76. The roots of an obscure Bourne shell error message (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    95 points by r4um about 3 years | 35 comments
77. It's far from clear how grub package updates work on Ubuntu (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    95 points by emegeve83 over 2 years | 65 comments
78. Avoiding HTTP/3 (for a while) as a pragmatic default (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    92 points by pabs3 over 3 years | 119 comments
79. The temptation of writing shell scripts, illustrated (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    87 points by zdw over 4 years | 108 comments
80. Unix didn't use to support '#!', a brief history (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    87 points by zdw about 4 years | 62 comments
81. Document your mistakes and then try to block them in the future (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    86 points by zdw over 4 years | 35 comments
82. Unix's special way of marking login shells goes back to V2 Unix (at least) (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    86 points by ingve almost 4 years | 38 comments
83. Web servers should refuse requests for random, unnecessary URLs (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    86 points by ingve about 3 years | 129 comments
84. OpenBSD PF-based firewalls suffer differently from denial of service attacks (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    85 points by mfrw almost 3 years | 28 comments
85. Server BMCs can need to be rebooted every so often (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    85 points by zdw over 3 years | 94 comments
86. Missing TLS intermediate certificates can create mysterious browser problems (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    80 points by zdw over 4 years | 48 comments
87. Having metrics for something attracts your attention to it (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    78 points by zdw over 3 years | 18 comments
88. A peculiarity of the GNU Coreutils version of 'test' and '[' (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    78 points by ingve almost 3 years | 66 comments
89. The evolving Unix attitudes on handling signals in your code (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    77 points by ingve about 3 years | 31 comments
90. The HTTP status code for a web server's default “hello” front page (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    77 points by ingve about 3 years | 89 comments
91. The Unix API is more than just system calls or Posix (2018) (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    77 points by goranmoomin about 4 years | 22 comments
92. Graphical Unix has always had desktop environments (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    76 points by zdw over 3 years | 53 comments
93. Disk write buffering and its interactions with write flushes (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    76 points by ingve over 2 years | 58 comments
94. A strong commitment to backwards compatibility means keeping your mistakes (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    75 points by pcr910303 over 5 years | 60 comments
95. Large Unix programs were historically not all that portable between Unixes (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    74 points by zdw about 5 years | 43 comments
96. TLS certificates specifying hosts via the CommonName field is more or less gone (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    73 points by zdw over 5 years | 22 comments
97. Some early praise for using drgn for poking into Linux kernel internals (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    73 points by ingve over 3 years | 4 comments
98. How I would automate monitoring DNS queries in basic Prometheus (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    73 points by zdw over 2 years | 11 comments
99. Why Unix kernels have grown caches for directory entries ('name caches') (utcc.utoronto.ca)
    73 points by pabs3 almost 3 years | 31 comments
100. YAML and Configuration Files (utcc.utoronto.ca)
     71 points by signa11 about 5 years | 93 comments