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Ameya Lokare

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Ameya Lokare writes Ameya's blog, a personal blog at ameyalokare.com about programming and systems. Since 2017, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Sending Webhooks Securely”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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7mentions?
3HN people?
2017–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2017

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link Ameya Lokare's post on the difference between Rust's str and String types. The one comment cites it to clarify that std::String is a struct while str is a language type.

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. Sending Webhooks Securely
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-05-13

What Hacker News says?

  1. >Domains that resolve to private IPs: attacker could set up foo.com which resolves to a private IP There's a clever extension to this attack; a naive way to mitigate it is to do a DNS resolution first to verify it's not a private IP and then do the actual request. An attacker can simply return a public IP on the first DNS resolution (with a 0 TTY) and then return a private IP on the second. This is called a "TOCTOU"…

    Comment linking /technology/webhooks/2021/05/03/sending-webhooks-securely.html

    on “Collection of best practices for providing and consuming webhooks”
  2. Submitted Picking my next two programming languages as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. std::String is a struct, and str is a type defined by the language. There's a summary of the differences at [0]. [0]: http://www.ameyalokare.com/rust/2017/10/12/rust-str-vs-Strin...

    Comment linking /rust/2017/10/12/rust-str-vs-String.html

    on “Rust needs to run, and be easy to use, on every platform”
  4. Submitted Dynamic Nginx Configuration for Docker with Python as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Sending Webhooks Securely as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Nginx+Flask+Postgres multi-container setup with Docker Compose as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Migrating from Docker legacy links as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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