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		victorbjorklund on Sept 25, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Hosting my website using my C web server Not if 1000 lines are written by you alone and not checked by anyone else vs 5 million lines of code written by thousands of people and checked by countless more. Linux is probably more secure than 1000 lines of C code from a junior developer.

whiterknight on Sept 25, 2024 [–]

I think this is vastly overrated:

- how much code actually gets read outside of top 2-3 projects?

- how many of those readers can detect security problems?

- why are others inherently better at detecting problems than the author?

Wouldn’t 1000 lines read by 2 people be better than a million read by 10?

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