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Alcides Fonseca
Personal blog · wiki.alcidesfonseca.com/blogaisecurityprogramming
Alcides Fonseca's personal blog at wiki.alcidesfonseca.com covers ai, security and programming. Since 2008, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Why TUIs are making a comeback”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
A personal blog whose posts one commenter found too short for HN. That commenter suggested a lessons-learned post as a good one to share there, and advised reposting only occasionally.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Why TUIs are making a comeback3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-05-02
- Lessons Learned building an MCP proxy that acts as a behavioral firewall2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-10-19
- Age-Verification in Operating Systems and the Internet2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-11
What Hacker News says?
I’ve made a list of online boardgame platforms: https://wiki.alcidesfonseca.com/blog/online-boardgames-platf... Boardgamearena and yucata have the largest collection and the best user interface in 2D. Tabletopia and tabletopsimulator are 3D and (mostly) paid.
Comment linking /blog/online-boardgames-platforms/
on “Ask HN: Board Games Online?”Submitted Writing a compiler in Python using Lex, Yacc and LLVM as a story · 67 points
HN discussionYou can post your own stuff here, just don't abuse. (In case my comment is confusing, for me your activity looks fine.) I took a look ar your blog. Most posts are too short, I prefer longer posts for HN. I think this may be a good post https://wiki.alcidesfonseca.com/blog/lessons-learned-buildin... You already posted it, a few repost are ok. Try again once or twice and cross your fingers. (I have AI fatigue, but peo…
Comment linking /blog/lessons-learned-building-fronteira/
on “Ask HN: How do you get new readers for your blog”Submitted Python Universal GUI (tkinter, wxwidgets, winforms with shoes-like syntax) as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why TUIs are making a comeback as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons Learned building an MCP proxy that acts as a behavioral firewall as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why TUIs Are Back as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Age-Verification in Operating Systems and the Internet as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Copyright, AI and the Future of the Web as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The impact of Microsoft buying GitHub on the community as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons Learned Building Fronteira as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Recommendations for Teaching with AI (Fall 2026) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deterministic behavioral (lethal-trifecta defeating) sandboxes with liquid types as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A new model for Source Control as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why TUIs Are Back as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why should operating systems and websites track the user age? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Make me CEO of RIM for one day by Alcides Fonseca as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why did Google shutdown Social Graph API as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Browser Plugins' (Flash, SL, etc) role is to be ahead of browser standards as a story · 1 points
HN discussion