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April King

Personal blog · pokeinthe.iosecurityweb

April King's personal blog at pokeinthe.io covers security and web. Since 2016, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Security Analysis of the Alexa Top 1M Sites (April 2016)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-11-21, and you can follow it by feed.

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11mentions?
10HN people?
2016–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2016

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog's 2016 post as background on Mozilla's HTTP Observatory security-checking tool. Commenters treat the detailed post as more useful than the bare submitted link.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Security Analysis of the Alexa Top 1M Sites (April 2016)
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-04-15
  2. Observatory by Mozilla: Making the Web Safer
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-08-26
  3. Testing Browser HTTP Status Code Handling
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-09-14

What Hacker News says?

  1. weinzierl · 2021-09-20Recommends
    It is an excellent tool. For a bit more background I found [1] (from 2016) quite insightful. In addition here are a few notes that I collected using it, no criticism - just (hopefully) constructive feedback: - The SSH (H not L) Observatory part seems to be broken for a long time (months at least). Not exactly sure what it was supposed to do anyway and how useful it would have been. - I find the nomenclature for the…

    Comment linking /2016/08/25/observatory-by-mozilla-a-new-tool/

    on “Mozilla HTTP Observatory”
  2. tomwas54 · 2021-09-13

    Submitted Cache-Control Recommendations as a story · 29 points

    HN discussion
  3. michaelmior · 2016-08-26Recommends
    Looks interesting, but the detailed blog post would probably be a more useful link https://pokeinthe.io/2016/08/25/observatory-by-mozilla-a-new...

    Comment linking /2016/08/25/observatory-by-mozilla-a-new-tool/

    on “Promoting Security Best Practices with Mozilla Observatory”
  4. keeran · 2016-04-19

    Submitted Security Analysis of the Alexa Top 1M Sites (April 2016) as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  5. mikecb · 2016-04-18

    Submitted (Security header) Analysis of the Alexa Top 1M sites (April 2016) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. jvehent · 2019-04-04

    Submitted Analysis of the Alexa TopM Sites (April 2019) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. sohkamyung · 2018-02-09

    Submitted Analysis of the Alexa Top 1M sites (Feb 2018) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. cyphar · 2017-09-14

    Submitted Testing Browser HTTP Status Code Handling as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. jvehent · 2016-04-15

    Submitted Web Security analysis of the Alexa Top 1M sites as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. jbernardo95 · 2017-09-15

    Submitted HTTP Status Code Handling as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. ozdave · 2016-08-29

    Submitted Observatory by Mozilla: Making the Web Safer as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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