Hacker News
- What was the point of [ “x$var” = “xval” ]? (2021) https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=1035 161 comments
- Swap on HDD: Does placement matter? https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=1110 92 comments
- Overwriting Hard Drive Data: The Great Wiping Controversy (2008) [pdf] http://www.vidarholen.net/~vidar/overwriting_hard_drive_data.pdf 40 comments
- What was the point of [ “x$var” = “xval” ]? https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=1035 227 comments
- Why is /usr/bin/test 4kiB smaller than /usr/bin/[? https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=995 5 comments
- ${var?} and and&: Two simple tips for shell commands in tech docs https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=958 2 comments
- Lessons learned from writing ShellCheck https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=859 46 comments
- An ode to pack: gzip’s forgotten decompressor http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=691 52 comments
- Overwriting Hard Drive Data: The Great Wiping Controversy (2008) [pdf] http://www.vidarholen.net/~vidar/overwriting_hard_drive_data.pdf 20 comments
- [ -z $var ] works unreasonably well http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=576 95 comments
- Dd is not a disk writing tool (2015) http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=479 198 comments
Lobsters
- What exactly was the point of [ “x$var” = “xval” ]? https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=1035 11 comments unix
- What exactly was the point of [ “x$var” = “xval” ]? https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=1035 16 comments historical , unix
- Use echo/printf to write images in 5 LoC with zero libraries or headers https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=904 2 comments linux , unix
- Zsh and Fish’s simple but clever trick for highlighting missing linefeeds https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=878 2 comments programming
- Lessons learned from writing ShellCheck, GitHub’s now most starred Haskell project https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=859 28 comments haskell
- Tricking the tricksters with a next level fork bomb https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=766 14 comments unix
- A shell script that deleted a database, and how ShellCheck could have helped https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=746 15 comments practices , unix
- dd is not a disk writing tool http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=479 10 comments unix
- md5crypt in swift https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=32 10 comments swift
- Useless Use Of dd(old but good) https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=479 17 comments linux
- Tricking the tricksters with a next level fork bomb https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=766 46 comments programming
- What exactly was the point of [ “x$var” = “xval” ]? https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=1035 4 comments programming
- ${var?} and &&: Two simple tips for shell commands in tech docs https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=958 4 comments programming
- Zsh and Fish’s simple but clever trick for highlighting missing linefeeds https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=878 6 comments commandline
- Lessons learned from writing ShellCheck https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=859 17 comments haskell
- According to this site, the linux kernel contains over 6000 instances of the word "todo." https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/#hack*,workaround*,todo,fixme 141 comments linux
- A shell script that deleted a database, and how ShellCheck could have helped https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=746 18 comments bash
- Hey everyone, I was wondering what you think about the topic talked about in the linked document, "Overwriting Hard Drive Data: The Great Wiping Controversy" https://www.vidarholen.net/~vidar/overwriting_hard_drive_data.pdf 44 comments netsec
- An ode to pack: gzip’s forgotten decompressor http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=691 10 comments programming
- [ -z $var ] works unreasonably well http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=576 14 comments programming
- dd is not a disk writing tool https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=479 161 comments linux
- Swear words in Linux kernel source code, now interactive https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/#fuck*,shit*,crap*,bastard,penguin 9 comments linux
- Linux kernel swear words count http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/ 4 comments linux
- Approaches to data recovery with linux http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=195 9 comments linux
- What CMOS is and is not... http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/comics/comic15.html 19 comments hardware
- Is it terminal? Why and how utilities alter their behaviour depending on if they write to a terminal or not. http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=22 8 comments linux
- Why PulseAudio? http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=21 266 comments linux
- Linux kernel swear counts http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/ 4 comments linux
- More crap than penguin in recent Linux kernels [graph] http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/graph.png 17 comments programming