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Andrew Cantino
Personal blog · blog.andrewcantino.comprogrammingaisecurity
Andrew Cantino writes andrew makes things, a personal blog at blog.andrewcantino.com about programming, ai and security. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 52 times, most often “Prompt Engineering Tips and Tricks with GPT-3”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Andrew Cantino's personal blog, linked in two HN threads that list favourite technical blogs. The comments do not say what its posts cover or why they are good.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Andrew Cantino blogs about programming, machine learning, and his experiments
Most-linked posts?
- Prompt Engineering Tips and Tricks with GPT-32 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-04-22
- Hacking Google for Fun and Profit2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-07-31
What Hacker News says?
A couple of my favorite blogs - http://antirez.com/ - https://martin.kleppmann.com/archive.html - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing - https://ma.tt/ - https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/ - https://jvns.ca/ - https://www.johndcook.com/blog - http://feross.org/ - https://ridiculousfish.com/blog/ - https://blog.andrewcantino.com/ - https://nickcraver.com/blog/ - https://blog.acolyer.org - https://blog.coding…
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?”Submitted Hacking Google for Fun and Profit as a story · 184 points
HN discussionIf you use Ledger, check out my command-line version of Mint for Ledger called Reckon. http://blog.andrewcantino.com/post/1503439483/command-line-a...
Comment linking /post/1503439483/command-line-accounting-with-ledger-and-reckon
on “Accounting for Computer Scientists”Submitted Command Line Accounting With Ledger and Reckon as a story · 122 points
HN discussionI use and love ledger, and wrote a Ruby wrapper a few years ago called reckon that applies Naive Bayes to your bank CSV (kind of link Mint.com) and outputs a ledger input file. http://blog.andrewcantino.com/blog/2013/02/16/command-line-a...
Comment linking /blog/2013/02/16/command-line-accounting-with-ledger-and-reckon/
on “Ledger, a command-line accounting system”Submitted My experiences with personal outsourcing as a story · 92 points
HN discussionAre you guys archiving photos / images too? When I just wget the site those don't generally come down. I don't know if they're being loaded via JavaScript or a plugin. To preserve my own blog I just saved it as a pdf with wkhtmltopdf, but it'd be nice to have a full HTML version. http://blog.andrewcantino.com/blog/2013/03/12/archive-a-pdf-...
Comment linking /blog/2013/03/12/archive-a-pdf-of-your-posterous-blog/
on “Come and help save Posterous from oblivion”Submitted Show HN: Standing Queries about the World as a story · 76 points
HN discussionI have a few on my blog, https://blog.andrewcantino.com , but nothing comprehensive. I mostly use it to monitor Reddit/HN/Twitter/various blogs for certain keywords, and also to keep an eye on local things that I want to know about (weather, events, emergencies, etc.).
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on “Huginn: System for building agents that perform automated tasks online”Submitted Plug computers as low-profile security intrusion tools as a story · 43 points
HN discussionA couple of my favorite technical blogs - https://openai.com/blog/ - https://ai.googleblog.com - http://antirez.com/ - https://research.facebook.com/blog/ - https://martin.kleppmann.com/archive.html - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing - https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/ - https://jvns.ca/ - https://www.johndcook.com/blog - http://feross.org/ - https://ridiculousfish.com/blog/ - https://blog.andrewcantin…
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on “Ask HN: Best Engineering Blog Posts?”Submitted Demasking Google Users with a Timing Attack as a story · 26 points
HN discussionAs an example of a good bug bounty program, my experience with Google was excellent. If you're interested, I wrote about it here: http://blog.andrewcantino.com/blog/2011/12/14/hacking-google...
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on “PayPal Bug Bounty - a lesson in not being a fuckup”Submitted Super simple web scraping with YQL as a story · 20 points
HN discussionI wrote a blog post about how I found a number of bugs in Gmail. http://blog.andrewcantino.com/blog/2011/12/14/hacking-google...
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on “How a tweet about a XSS bug within Google+ leads to XSS within InformationWeek”Submitted Compressibility of Code as a story · 15 points
HN discussionThe project is on GitHub at https://github.com/cantino/huginn You can also use Huginn to automate many other processes. It's basically an open source IFTTT. I also learned recently that it's being used at the New York Times: https://source.opennews.org/en-US/articles/open-source-bot-f... Here is another article about how to use Huginn to send you weather alerts: http://blog.andrewcantino.com/blog/2014/01/12/never-fo…
Comment linking /blog/2014/01/12/never-forget-your-umbrella-again-with-huginn
on “Show HN: Standing Queries about the World”Submitted Huginn – Know when the world changes as a story · 14 points
HN discussionI post occasionally at http://blog.andrewcantino.com about stupid projects I do.
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on “Ask HN: What's your blog?”Submitted Security PSA: “Hidden” Content Is Readable in Shared, Readonly Google Sheets as a story · 13 points
HN discussionThat's a pretty serious hole indeed. Good find! Is the title a reference to http://blog.andrewcantino.com/blog/2011/12/14/hacking-google... or a coincidence?
Comment linking /blog/2011/12/14/hacking-google-for-fun-and-profit
on “Hacking Facebook’s Corporate Network for Fun and Profit”Submitted An Example of Poor Security Communication in the Google Auth Flow as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSome previous Google security research I worked on (and got paid for): http://blog.andrewcantino.com/blog/2011/12/14/hacking-google...
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on “Demasking Google Users with a Timing Attack”Submitted Show HN: Checkout my command-line Mint using Ruby and Ledger as a story · 10 points
HN discussionI posted some a little while ago: http://blog.andrewcantino.com/blog/2012/04/22/machine-learni...
Comment linking /blog/2012/04/22/machine-learning-project-ideas/
on “What are some fun project ideas in machine learning? :)”Submitted Prompt Engineering Tips and Tricks with GPT-3 as a story · 9 points
HN discussionLedger and Reckon on the command line http://blog.andrewcantino.com/blog/2013/02/16/command-line-a...
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on “Ask HN: What tool do you use for personal bookkeeping?”Submitted Storage is basically free. What can we do with this? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionPlug computers have interesting security implications: http://blog.andrewcantino.com/post/3565673304/why-plug-compu...
Comment linking /post/3565673304/why-plug-computers-are-a-security-nightmare
on “Introducing TP2 - Next Gen plug server that costs only a dollar to run 365 days”Submitted Hidden Content Is Readable in Shared Google Sheets as a story · 4 points
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