frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Made with ♥ by @iamnishanth

Open Source @Github

fp.

Open in hackernews

Fefe is back

http://blog.fefe.de/
15•steve_wilson•2h ago

Comments

johndoe0815•1h ago
Well, I didn't miss him...
jasonvorhe•57m ago
Good thing you don't have to read it then.
skilled•1h ago
It went dark earlier this year and from what I gather from German media is that he had a problem and was hospitalised.

The site is quite popular in Germany, last year or the year before a blog post of mine was linked from there and it had a similar pull to HN.

I distinctly remember wondering how many more such sites exist that have such strong communities but you’re unlikely to find these sites in the wild.

talles•1h ago
Who's fefe
miduil•57m ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Leitner who runs https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fefes_Blog

Which often shares interesting things in the realm of technology, but with a high degree of skepticism - some of which practically results in incitement against minorities, with people being harassed by some of his follower crowd.

He had a stroke not too long ago, so this seems to be a sign he's recovered a bit.

__bjoernd•53m ago
German internet nerd.

Professionally he's running a successful code/security consultancy [2]. This pays his bills, so that nerd-wise he is running his own web server and content management system where everything is self-written, inclusive of his own libC implementation with a focus on bare minimum requirements. [1] He's been around in the German IT community for decades and was earlier involved in Chaos Computer Club (CCC) where he still used to attend their annual congress, which is kind of the "meet and greet" of the German IT community.

His self-hosted blog was/is very popular/controversial. He is pretty opinionated on nearly everything and he's not taking hostages when he criticizes someone. So the "woke" people don't like him, the nazis don't like him, the corpo guys don't like him. And he pretty much doesn't care.

Earlier this year he apparently suffered some critical health condition and went quiet without notice for more than 6 months, I believe.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietlibc [2] https://www.codeblau.de

__bjoernd•58m ago
Glad he's alive and healthy again.
outside1234•54m ago
Is he related to Cofefe?
sebst•50m ago
Covfefe? http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=a7d0a08e
zygentoma•51m ago
But apparently his TLS cert still isn't :P
1vuio0pswjnm7•28m ago
"Proudly made without AI, Blockchain, PHP, Java, Perl, MySQL and Postgres"

He has good taste in software and has written some interesting programs of his own, including the httpd the blog is probably served from (gatling/0.17)

https://www.fefe.de

https://web.archive.org/web/20250917103655if_/http://www.fef...

Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop

http://www.tinycorelinux.net/
281•LorenDB•6h ago•132 comments

GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115647408229616018
284•akyuu•6h ago•97 comments

OMSCS Open Courseware

https://sites.gatech.edu/omscsopencourseware/
44•kerim-ca•1h ago•18 comments

Z-Image: Powerful and highly efficient image generation model with 6B parameters

https://github.com/Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image
139•doener•6d ago•46 comments

HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers

https://info.arxiv.org/about/accessible_HTML.html
155•el3ctron•5h ago•87 comments

Abstract Interpretation in the Toy Optimizer

https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/toy-abstract-interpretation/
11•ChadNauseam•2d ago•1 comments

Autism's confusing cousins

https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/autisms-confusing-cousins
156•Anon84•9h ago•179 comments

Touching the Elephant – TPUs

https://considerthebulldog.com/tte-tpu/
118•giuliomagnifico•8h ago•35 comments

The general who refused to crush Tiananmen's protesters

https://www.economist.com/china/2025/12/04/the-general-who-refused-to-crush-tiananmens-protesters
45•marojejian•1h ago•15 comments

Finding Gene Cernan's Missing Moon Camera

https://www.spacecamera.co/articles/2020/3/3/gene-cernans-missing-lunar-surface-camera
34•theodorespeaks•3d ago•3 comments

The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claude

https://blog.chrislewis.au/the-unexpected-effectiveness-of-one-shot-decompilation-with-claude/
127•knackers•1w ago•69 comments

Linux Instal Fest Belgrade

https://dmz.rs/lif2025_en
125•ubavic•10h ago•16 comments

A compact camera built using an optical mouse

https://petapixel.com/2025/11/13/this-guy-built-a-compact-camera-using-an-optical-mouse/
216•PaulHoule•3d ago•41 comments

Infisical (YC W23) Is Hiring Engineers to Build the Modern OSS Security Stack

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/infisical/jobs/2pwGcK9-senior-full-stack-engineer-us-canada
1•vmatsiiako•3h ago

Mapping Amazing: Bee Maps

https://maphappenings.com/2025/11/06/bee-maps/
42•altilunium•6d ago•25 comments

Ireland's Inability to Defend Itself

https://www.irishpoliticsnewsletter.ie/p/ireland-neutrality
21•arthurz•4h ago•1 comments

Self-hosting my photos with Immich

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2025-11-29-self-hosting-photos-with-immich/
580•birdculture•6d ago•330 comments

Kids who ran away to 1960s San Francisco

https://www.fieldnotes.nautilus.quest/p/the-kids-who-ran-away-to-1960s-san
99•zackoverflow•4d ago•11 comments

Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025

https://blog.cloudflare.com/5-december-2025-outage/
747•meetpateltech•1d ago•541 comments

Perl's decline was cultural

https://www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/computers/perls-decline-was-cultural-not-technical
152•todsacerdoti•3h ago•176 comments

How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM

https://telefoncek.si/2025/02/2025-02-10-hidden-microphone-on-nanokvm/
285•ementally•7h ago•83 comments

Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI

https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemini-3-pro-vision/
529•xnx•1d ago•273 comments

The Absent Silence (2010)

https://www.ursulakleguin.com/blog/3-the-absent-silence
65•dcminter•4d ago•23 comments

Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros

https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-to-acquire-warner-bros
1656•meetpateltech•1d ago•1268 comments

PalmOS on FisherPrice Pixter Toy

https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=27.%20rePalm#pixter
171•dmitrygr•17h ago•27 comments

Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode

https://old.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK/comments/1pc7999/my_schizophrenic_sister_hospitalised_hers...
429•hliyan•13h ago•387 comments

Making tiny 0.1cc two stroke engine from scratch

https://youtu.be/nKVq9u52A-c?si=KVY6AK7tsudqnbJN
131•pillars•6d ago•32 comments

Netflix’s AV1 Journey: From Android to TVs and Beyond

https://netflixtechblog.com/av1-now-powering-30-of-netflix-streaming-02f592242d80
527•CharlesW•1d ago•267 comments

Frinkiac – 3M "The Simpsons" Screencaps

https://frinkiac.com/
157•GlumWoodpecker•4d ago•55 comments

Divine D native Linux open-source mobile system – Rev. 1.1 Hardware Architecture

https://docs.dawndrums.tn/blog/dd-rev1.1-arch/
48•wicket•4d ago•8 comments