linux.conf.au: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "The Tragedy of systemd", the most-recommended balanced take on systemd, from a BSD perspective, handed to anyone caught up in the systemd debate.
- 16 HN recommenders 14 months 2019–2025talkThe most-recommended balanced take on systemd, from a BSD perspective, handed to anyone caught up in the systemd debate.
- 4 HN recommenders 4 months 2020–2025talkHN commenters recommend it as the authoritative, firsthand account of how X came to be and why it isn't GPL.
- 3 HN recommenders 3 months 2022–2025talkRecommended as an insightful and entertaining critique of UNIX design choices such as file descriptors and 'everything is a file'.
- 5 HN recommenders 3 months 2020–2025talkThe go-to reference for why file operations are slow on Windows and how antivirus filters, not NTFS itself, are the cause.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2020–2024talkCited for insight into the hard realities of Linux input handling and libinput's thinly staffed maintenance.
Questions
Which linux.conf.au video does Hacker News recommend most?
The Tragedy of systemd: recommended in 14 different months by 16 HN users between 2019 and 2025.
Is this every linux.conf.au video?
No. Only videos that at least three different HN users linked, in at least three different months, with at least a sentence of their own commentary. That filter is what makes the list useful.
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