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I was more surprised that this got to number 2 on the front page, it seemed that it was something people might have actually been waiting for, was wondering why that would be the case.

My day job is networking for a UK ISP/DC, and the only thing I could really think of people wanting this was on devices like route reflectors within your network, or an peering exchange.

However I suppose people are just using OpenBSD to do more than I thought.

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I think there are a lot of HN readers who just like the OpenBSD project in general. They may or may not use it for anything particularly fancy (or at all), but are interested in following its developments.

I'm one of those. I like to read about what they do because I like the idea of it even if I don't have a use for OpenBSD in my life besides a router. I could read their output all day like

-Results of audits or how they got bizarre bugs to surface with security features/randomization/running on exotic hardware platforms. -Security mitigations and software hardening as they find potential attack surface -Recreating the most common use cases of a common piece of software with <5% the codebase.

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