Hacker News with Generative AI: OpenBSD

Dipping my toes in OpenBSD, in Amsterdam (ewintr.nl)
Sometimes the water is cold at first.
OpenSMTPD and Maildrop working in concert (whenhen.com)
OpenBSD has many ways of filtering mails based on criteria right out of the box. But sometimes, the workload you want to put on your incoming mail is better suited for tools designed just for that.
A more robust raw OpenBSD syscall demo (nullprogram.com)
Ted Unangst published dude, where are your syscalls? on flak yesterday, with a neat demonstration of OpenBSD’s pinsyscall security feature, whereby only pre-registered addresses are allowed to make system calls.
Porting OpenBSD Pledge() to Linux (2022) (justine.lol)
OpenBSD is an operating system that's famous for its focus on security.
The OpenBSD Foundation 2025 Fundraising Campaign (openbsdfoundation.org)
The OpenBSD Foundation needs your help to achieve our fundraising goal of $400,000 for 2025.
OpenBSD Innovations (openbsd.org)
This is a list of software and ideas developed or maintained by the OpenBSD project, sorted in order of approximate introduction. Some of them are explained in detail in our research papers.
You don't link all of Libc (tedunangst.com)
On OpenBSD, there is a rule that you link with libc to interface with the kernel, because that’s where the syscall stubs live.
Personal Mail Server on OpenBSD (2019) (nicolascarpi.github.io)
It’s time to host your email yourself!
I Stopped Using OpenBSD (dataswamp.org)
Last month, I decided to leave the OpenBSD team as I have not been using OpenBSD myself for a while. A lot of people asked me why I stopped using OpenBSD, although I have been advocating it for a while. Let me share my thoughts.
I Stopped Using OpenBSD (dataswamp.org)
Last month, I decided to leave the OpenBSD team as I have not been using OpenBSD myself for a while. A lot of people asked me why I stopped using OpenBSD, although I have been advocating it for a while. Let me share my thoughts.
OpenBSD Is Hard to Show Off (atthis.link)
Good software is good. That might not be a surprise but it seems increasingly hard to find software that just...works.
OpenBSD 7.6 released (openbsd.org)
OpenBSD 7.6 Released (undeadly.org)
The OpenBSD project has announced OpenBSD 7.6, its 57th release.
Show HN: Sanctum VPN daemon for OpenBSD, Linux and macOS (sanctorum.se)
OpenBSD now enforcing no invalid NUL characters in shell scripts (undeadly.org)
We have reached OpenBSD of Theseus (marc.info)
OpenBSD crond / crontab set_range() heap underflow (CVE-2024-43688) (supernetworks.org)
Emails encryption at rest on OpenBSD using dovecot and GPG (dataswamp.org)
OpenBSD 7.5 via QEMU on Hetzner physical machine (no phys. access / KVM console) (gfuzz.de)
OpenBSD on ThinkPad L13 Gen 2 running KDE 6 (brynet.ca)
OpenBSD IPv6 Home Internet Gateway with AT&T Fibre (jgoguen.ca)
OpenBSD added initial support for Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite X after 1 day (undeadly.org)
OpenBSD added initial support for Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite X after 1 day (undeadly.org)
OpenBSD, the computer appliance maker's secret weapon (hiandrewquinn.github.io)
OpenBSD Extreme Privacy Setup (dataswamp.org)
Wayland 1.23 Released with OpenBSD Support (phoronix.com)
How to Install OpenBSD on ARM Based Hetzner Cloud Servers (blunix.com)
Possible firmware issues for Apple Silicon OpenBSD/ARM64 users (undeadly.org)
(OpenBSD) Add sysctl to disable Nagle's algorithm (marc.info)
OpenBSD Desktop (x61.ar)