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Alessandro Mantovani

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Alessandro Mantovani's personal blog at elmanto.github.io covers security and programming. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “The Derby of Static Software Testing: Joern vs. CodeQl”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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4mentions?
3HN people?
2022–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2022

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked in a thread on SAST tools as a comparison of Joern and CodeQL for static analysis. The one comment names weggli and Joern as alternatives and links the post.

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?

  1. The Derby of Static Software Testing: Joern vs. CodeQl
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-27

What Hacker News says?

  1. you can check out weggli and joern https://github.com/weggli-rs/weggli https://elmanto.github.io/posts/sast_derby_joern_vs_codeql

    Comment linking /posts/sast_derby_joern_vs_codeql

    on “Ask HN: Any other tools like CodeQL?”
  2. Submitted LLVM Passes for Security: A Brief Introduction (Part 1/4) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Getting a PhD in System Security – The FAQ as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted The Derby of Static Software Testing: Joern vs. CodeQl as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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