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Andrey Konovalov

Personal blog · xairy.io/articlessecuritysystemshardware

Andrey Konovalov's personal blog at xairy.io covers security, systems and hardware. Since 2022, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “I turned my ThinkPad into a programmable USB device”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-28, and you can follow it by feed.

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7mentions?
6HN people?
2022–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2022

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog's ThinkPad post on putting a laptop's USB port into gadget mode, which one commenter cites as a way to connect two computers with USB hardware.

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.

Security engineer focusing on fuzzers, exploits, and mitigations for Linux and Android kernels.

Most-linked posts?

  1. I turned my ThinkPad into a programmable USB device
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-02-22
  2. Looking for Remote Code Execution Bugs in the Linux Kernel
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-05-03

What Hacker News says?

  1. yjftsjthsd-h · 2025-10-26
    With the right hardware, there are even ways to do this just by configuring the laptop's USB port into gadget mode and then... plugging it in. https://xairy.io/articles/thinkpad-xdci

    Comment linking /articles/thinkpad-xdci

    on “Ask HN: Advice for creating a USB device linking 2 computers”
  2. true_pk · 2024-02-22

    Submitted I turned my ThinkPad into a programmable USB device as a story · 376 points

    HN discussion
  3. timschumi · 2025-07-29

    Submitted Debugging the Pixel 8 kernel via KGDB as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  4. transpute · 2026-02-26

    Submitted Unlocking secret ThinkPad functionality for emulating USB devices (2024) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. ingve · 2022-09-05

    Submitted Looking for Remote Code Execution Bugs in the Linux Kernel as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. ingve · 2023-04-04

    Submitted Looking for Remote Code Execution Bugs in the Linux Kernel as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. thinkmassive · 2022-05-03

    Submitted Looking for Remote Code Execution Bugs in the Linux Kernel as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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