rachelbythebay.com on Hacker News

That post never existed. Stop listening to that thing(rachelbythebay.com)

96 points by wglb 3 months ago | 85 comments

An old photo of a large BBS (2022)(rachelbythebay.com)

262 points by xbryanx 7 months ago | 170 comments

When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown(rachelbythebay.com)

425 points by zdw 8 months ago | 228 comments

A rachelbythebay blog post about internal network hostnames, apparently from a NAS device, being leaked to outside cloud services.

More tales about outages and numeric limits(rachelbythebay.com)

37 points by todsacerdoti 11 months ago | 3 comments

Recreating the US/* time zone situation(rachelbythebay.com)

109 points by move-on-by 1 year ago | 76 comments

Debian 13, Postgres, and the US time zones(rachelbythebay.com)

261 points by move-on-by 1 year ago | 135 comments

Making the most of a dumb fax switcher box in the old days(rachelbythebay.com)

67 points by bertman 1 year ago | 16 comments

Squashing my dumb bugs and why I log build IDs(rachelbythebay.com)

30 points by wglb 1 year ago | 11 comments

Squashing my dumb bugs and why I log build IDs(rachelbythebay.com)

7 points by zoidb 1 year ago | 3 comments

Documenting what you're willing to support (and not)(rachelbythebay.com)

76 points by zdw 1 year ago | 27 comments

Rsync's defaults are not always enough(rachelbythebay.com)

28 points by rcarmo 1 year ago | 36 comments

Why I no longer have an old-school cert on my HTTPS site(rachelbythebay.com)

380 points by mcbain 1 year ago | 384 comments

Blog post by Rachel by the Bay explaining why she dropped her traditional paid TLS certificate and moved to ACME-issued certs, after long distrust of the protocol and clients.

Some thoughts on how control over web content works(rachelbythebay.com)

15 points by zdw 1 year ago | 2 comments

Problems with the heap(rachelbythebay.com)

186 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 76 comments

You might want to stop running atop(rachelbythebay.com)

224 points by subract 1 year ago | 98 comments

More thoughts on the 1670 modem's weird noises(rachelbythebay.com)

69 points by kencausey 1 year ago | 25 comments

A sysadmin's rant about feed readers and crawlers (2022)(rachelbythebay.com)

38 points by leonry 1 year ago | 38 comments

War rooms vs. deep investigations(rachelbythebay.com)

235 points by ingve 1 year ago | 65 comments

Pushing the whole company into the past on purpose(rachelbythebay.com)

242 points by senkora 1 year ago | 91 comments

Web page annoyances that I don't inflict on you(rachelbythebay.com)

470 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 244 comments

A blog post by Rachel Kroll listing common web page annoyances, such as popups and tracking, that her own site deliberately avoids.

Feed readers which don't take "no" for an answer(rachelbythebay.com)

196 points by kencausey 1 year ago | 182 comments

Unfortunate things about performance reviews (2021)(rachelbythebay.com)

194 points by zargon 2 years ago | 103 comments

A change of heart regarding employee metrics(rachelbythebay.com)

586 points by zdw 2 years ago | 363 comments

A rachelbythebay blog post in which the author describes changing her view on measuring employee performance with metrics.

Let the network tell you where you are(rachelbythebay.com)

55 points by zdw 2 years ago | 17 comments

Colocation: Non-Clown Hosting(rachelbythebay.com)

156 points by ingve 2 years ago | 137 comments

A terrible way to jump into colocating your own stuff(rachelbythebay.com)

212 points by ingve 2 years ago | 139 comments

"SRE" doesn't seem to mean anything useful any more(rachelbythebay.com)

60 points by CuriousIndian 2 years ago | 35 comments

Two months of feed reader behavior analysis(rachelbythebay.com)

20 points by AndrewStephens 2 years ago | 6 comments

What happened to my /edu page, and why it came back(rachelbythebay.com)

4 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 0 comments

How to waste bandwidth, battery power, and annoy sysadmins(rachelbythebay.com)

244 points by zoidb 2 years ago | 120 comments

Leaking URLs to the Clown(rachelbythebay.com)

53 points by guavaroo 2 years ago | 39 comments

Some early results for feed reader behavior monitoring(rachelbythebay.com)

29 points by zdw 2 years ago | 10 comments

So many feed readers, so many behaviors(rachelbythebay.com)

110 points by zoidb 2 years ago | 65 comments

Optimizing your talking points (2018)(rachelbythebay.com)

176 points by compiler-guy 2 years ago | 68 comments

SSD death, tricky read-only filesystems, and systemd magic?(rachelbythebay.com)

164 points by ingve 2 years ago | 70 comments

Autoconf makes me think we stopped evolving too soon(rachelbythebay.com)

145 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 95 comments

Port-scanning the fleet and trying to put out fires(rachelbythebay.com)

71 points by rcarmo 2 years ago | 13 comments

Port-scanning the fleet and trying to put out fires(rachelbythebay.com)

3 points by r4um 2 years ago | 0 comments

How the Valley treats its experienced people (2018)(rachelbythebay.com)

7 points by Timothee 2 years ago | 0 comments

Today's only half of the leap year fun(rachelbythebay.com)

10 points by zdw 2 years ago | 0 comments

Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, repeat(rachelbythebay.com)

568 points by l0b0 2 years ago | 356 comments

Blog post by Rachel Kroll about periodically dumping and diffing a company LDAP directory to track which employees have left.

Hold on there: WPA3 connections fail after 11 hours(rachelbythebay.com)

409 points by zdw 2 years ago | 161 comments

A rachelbythebay blog post describing how WPA3 Wi-Fi connections fail after about 11 hours and investigating the cause.

Patching around a C++ crash with a little bit of Lua(rachelbythebay.com)

32 points by signa11 2 years ago | 12 comments

Clang now makes binaries an original Pi B+ can't run(rachelbythebay.com)

318 points by FPGAhacker 2 years ago | 113 comments

Blog post describing how clang on Raspberry Pi OS bookworm produces C++ binaries that crash with illegal instruction on original Pi B+ and Pi Zero ARMv6 hardware.

Break before make, abstractions, and sleazy ISPs(rachelbythebay.com)

3 points by gavinhoward 2 years ago | 0 comments

That time Verisign typo-squatted all of .com and .net(rachelbythebay.com)

284 points by zdw 2 years ago | 107 comments

Project managers, ducks, and dogs marking territory (2013)(rachelbythebay.com)

115 points by lutrinus 2 years ago | 50 comments

My rants about TP-Link Omada networking products(rachelbythebay.com)

9 points by zdw 2 years ago | 0 comments

Asahi Linux folks are doing us a solid with WPA3 fixes(rachelbythebay.com)

108 points by picture 3 years ago | 23 comments

Getaddrinfo() on glibc calls getenv(), oh boy(rachelbythebay.com)

259 points by defrost 3 years ago | 229 comments

Your nines are not my nines (2019)(rachelbythebay.com)

69 points by thewarpaint 3 years ago | 21 comments

The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing into stupidity(rachelbythebay.com)

738 points by picture 3 years ago | 574 comments

A blog post by Rachel by the Bay criticizing recent changes in the Philips Hue smart lighting ecosystem.

A customer stuck due to a hurricane who needed SSH(rachelbythebay.com)

186 points by HieronymusBosch 3 years ago | 76 comments

Memories of a goofy phone from the late 80s(rachelbythebay.com)

61 points by rcarmo 3 years ago | 11 comments

Add extra stuff to a “standard” encoding? Sure, why not(rachelbythebay.com)

206 points by l0b0 3 years ago | 127 comments

Bored? How about trying a Linux speedrun? (2020)(rachelbythebay.com)

187 points by mdwalters 3 years ago | 56 comments

The Screwed-O-Meter (2013)(rachelbythebay.com)

226 points by mdwalters 3 years ago | 106 comments

I try to answer “how to become a systems engineer”(rachelbythebay.com)

297 points by picture 3 years ago | 111 comments

Fulfilling a reader's request for my “dot files”(rachelbythebay.com)

185 points by mdwalters 3 years ago | 107 comments