[How is a binary executable organized? Let's explore it (2014) | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39231663)
[How is a binary executable organized? Let's explore it!](https://jvns.ca/blog/2014/09/06/how-to-read-an-executable/)

[Wuffs: Wrangling Untrusted File Formats Safely | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40378433)
[google/wuffs: Wrangling Untrusted File Formats Safely](https://github.com/google/wuffs)

## file systems

[Visualizing Ext4 | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38907821)
[Visualizing ext4](https://buredoranna.github.io/linux/ext4/2020/01/09/ext4-viz.html)

## filenames

[What characters are forbidden in Windows and Linux directory names? - Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1976007/what-characters-are-forbidden-in-windows-and-linux-directory-names)
- this is a key illusion: the files appear to be open-ended free expression, but they're essentially code like anything else

## zfs

[OpenZFS 2.0 | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25259405)
[Release OpenZFS 2.0.0 · openzfs/zfs](https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-2.0.0)

[ZFS is mysteriously eating my CPU | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28429596)
[ZFS Is Mysteriously Eating My CPU](https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2021-09-06/zfs-is-mysteriously-eating-my-cpu.html)

[ZFS for Dummies | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37387392)
[ZFS for Dummies - Gamedev Guide](https://ikrima.dev/dev-notes/homelab/zfs-for-dummies/)

[I only lost 10 minutes of data, thanks to ZFS | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37230619)
[Max Goodhart: "Yesterday morning, I pulled op…" - Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/@chromakode/110936177254839251)