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Alice Girard Guittard
Personal blog · alicegg.tech · on HN as zer0toninprogramminggames
Alice Girard Guittard writes Alice GG, a personal blog at alicegg.tech about programming and games. Since 2020, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 37 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on algorithmic content feeds, Git protocol security on GitHub, and whether technical analysis is like astrology. Comments mostly cite the posts without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I'm Alice Girard Guittard, Co-Founder of Tsukumogami Software . I write about open source software and indie game development.
Most-linked posts?
- /2019/06/23/aes-cbc.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-09-01
What Hacker News says?
Just saying, the author blames corporate internet and the algorithm that feed you content, but if you browse 2 articles before (this one: https://alicegg.tech/2026/06/12/popular-upcoming ) he then praised steam for removing the “upcoming game list” that was purely based on the number of wishlist a game received and is praising the new algorithmic personalized calendar of upcoming “for you”. I find it a bit hypocriti…
Comment linking /2026/06/12/popular-upcoming
on “Attention is all you have”Submitted Attention is all you have as a story · 1090 points
HN discussionhttps://alicegg.tech/ I have been writing this blog for a bout a year now. About half of the articles I've written are about cryptography, the others are about software engineering and conferences I've attended. A couple articles I'm proud of: * The dangers of AES-CBC: https://alicegg.tech/2019/06/23/aes-cbc.html * Low Tech Crypto - Solitaire: https://alicegg.tech/2020/01/03/solitaire.html * BDD in Golang: https://a…
Comment linking /2019/03/09/gobdd.html
on “Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?”Submitted A love letter to Apache Echarts as a story · 166 points
HN discussionYeah, a 4$/month VPS can handle thousands of queries per second: https://alicegg.tech/2023/02/06/4dollar-vps
Comment linking /2023/02/06/4dollar-vps
on “Majority of web apps could just run on a single server”Submitted Playing with Open Source LLMs as a story · 90 points
HN discussionWhile theoretically secure, CBC ciphers are considered weak because of their implementation. They are more often than not vulnerable to padding oracle attacks. These issues have been around for more than a decade, but they keep popping up. The last 3-ish years a larger push has been made to disable CBC ciphers (in SSL/TLS, SSH, etc.). See [0, 1, 2, 3, and 4] for more information. GCM/CTR is considered to be a more s…
Comment linking /2019/06/23/aes-cbc.html
on “Improving Git protocol security on GitHub”Submitted Is technical analysis just stock market astrology? as a story · 71 points
HN discussionI'm not sure I understand. The included chart ( https://alicegg.tech/assets/2023-07-25-technical-analysis/sm... ) seems to indicate that, for most of the time, the SMA crossover strategy outperforms the Buy and Hold strategy. In fact, going off the chart, it seems that Buy and Hold is a riskier strategy that involves multiple drawdowns and, had the underlying ticker symbol been an actual company and not an ETF, ther…
Comment linking /assets/2023-07-25-technical-analysis/sma.jpg
on “Is technical analysis just stock market astrology?”Submitted How to Solve It (With Raycasting) as a story · 54 points
HN discussionIt's a good thing basically it means that diversification removes risk and makes you money. I've written a (simpler) article on the subject, which can serve as an introduction to this topic: https://alicegg.tech/2023/03/09/shannon-demon
Comment linking /2023/03/09/shannon-demon
on “Diversification is a negative price lunch”Submitted How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? as a story · 28 points
HN discussionMy blog ( https://alicegg.tech/ ) as well as the small discord bots I used to do in my spare time ( https://github.com/zer0tonin/mako ) helped me land a gig working at MEE6. During the interview, the founders clearly said that my CV was unimpressive, but my blog showed without a doubt I was really able to code. It was a fairly decent job, I helped the company scale from 5m to 15m communities and gave my software and…
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on “Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?”Submitted Discord Considered Harmful as a story · 14 points
HN discussionI actually wrote a whole article about this myself: https://alicegg.tech/2023/02/06/4dollar-vps.html TL;DR: go can handle 1000+ RPS on a ridiculously small server
Comment linking /2023/02/06/4dollar-vps.html
on “Go with PHP”Submitted The Slopocalypse Survival Guide as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://alicegg.tech/ - I talk about a lot of tech related stuff, mostly devops and cryptography. I have been making around a post a month lately. Noteworthy posts: - https://alicegg.tech/2023/02/06/4dollar-vps.html : How much can you really get out of a 4$ VPS? - https://alicegg.tech/2020/01/03/solitaire.html : Low Tech Crypto : Solitaire - https://alicegg.tech/2019/06/23/aes-cbc.html : The dangers of AES-CBC
Comment linking /2019/06/23/aes-cbc.html
on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Self-hosting your code on Gitea as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Container Orchestrator as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Low Tech Crypto: Solitaire (2020) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Atlas: Declarative Schemas for SQL Databases as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Specialization Considered Harmful as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Managing a Kubernetes Cluster with Helm and FluxCD as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Preview Ebitengine Shaders with Luluka as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Protecting Godot games against reverse engineering as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making Games in Go with Ebitengine as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building Itako: an investment tracking application as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on releasing our first indie game as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Detecting offensive words with Mistral AI 7B as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why diversification matters for long-term investors? Meet Shannon's Demon as a story · 1 points
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