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Atte Juvonen
Personal blog · attejuvonen.fiprogrammingeconomicswriting
Atte Juvonen writes TODO, a personal blog at attejuvonen.fi about programming, economics and writing. Since 2019, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 53 times, most often “If it weren't for those meddling cryptographers”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-12-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link posts from this site on blockchain and democracy, a Show HN page whose mouse cursor moves, and learning new skills. One commenter calls the page great, especially its graphic.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Atte Juvonen
Most-linked posts?
- If it weren't for those meddling cryptographers3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-08-15
- Don't send email from your own server2 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2019-07-01
- New Chrome exploit allows websites full control over the user's mouse cursor2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-04-01
What Hacker News says?
If there was no requirement for vote secrecy, it would be easy. The conflicting requirements between verifiability of results and secrecy of the vote is what makes it hard. I wrote more about this here: https://www.attejuvonen.fi/thesis/
Comment linking /thesis/
on “Log4Shell update: second Log4j vulnerability published”Submitted Show HN: This website moves your mouse cursor as a story · 229 points
HN discussion> If you put some decent effort [...] it works Well, I put in more than some decent effort, and I didn't get it "to work". I detailed my efforts here: https://www.attejuvonen.fi/dont-send-email-from-your-own-ser... Please stop spreading falsehoods. If you were able to somehow get your own email server to deliver email to Gmail and Outlook, great, good for you - but stop pretending that anybody can do it.
Comment linking /dont-send-email-from-your-own-server/
on “Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choice, not a practical one”Submitted Banks create money, but it's less impressive than it sounds as a story · 221 points
HN discussionNope, setting up SPF, DKIM and DMARC is not enough to get your email delivered. I wrote about my experience more here: https://www.attejuvonen.fi/dont-send-email-from-your-own-ser...
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on “Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email”Submitted Learn New Skills as a story · 103 points
HN discussionThat's a great page especially the graphic: https://www.attejuvonen.fi/static/5553d78133d27e12a9d1d3e6f1... If we want more democracy I think we must get some help from technology. Liquid Democracy ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_democracy ) sounds like an approach that would be hard to do without computers.
Comment linking /static/5553d78133d27e12a9d1d3e6f18003ca/a8715/voting_schemes_comparison.jpg
on “It’s not still the early days of blockchain”Submitted Comparing the security of voting schemes (2019) as a story · 62 points
HN discussion> No, there aren’t. Yes there are, and I've documented several of them here: https://www.attejuvonen.fi/thesis/ If you disagree, can you please be specific what exactly do you disagree about?
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on “It’s not still the early days of blockchain”Submitted Don't send email from your own server as a story · 30 points
HN discussionRemoving trust completely is a pretty high bar... but there are different voting schemes out there and some of them do a pretty good job of removing a lot of the trust. Cryptography is typically involved, but blockchain is not needed. I wrote more about this here: https://www.attejuvonen.fi/thesis/
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on “It’s not still the early days of blockchain”Submitted If it weren't for those meddling cryptographers as a story · 13 points
HN discussionNo, when you take a loan out of a bank, the bank doesn't "create deposits" that it loans to you. The bank loans you existing deposits. The method by which banks end up creating money is less dramatic than you think. I wrote a long-form explainer here: https://www.attejuvonen.fi/money-out-of-thin-air/
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on “FTX tapped into customer accounts to fund risky bets, setting up its downfall”Submitted Don't send email from your own server as a story · 7 points
HN discussion> I often wonder how money is stored. It can't be just a number on a computer in a bank, right? Otherwise some Russian bank could just increase that number to whatever they like. And say "Look, we own 100 Trillion USD. A bank could easily create fake money into its own accounts, but it would have trouble transferring that money over to other banks. I wrote extensively about this topic here: https://www.attejuvonen.f…
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on “A quick breakdown of what SWIFT is and why it matters”Submitted No, banks do not have a magic wand that creates money out of thin air as a story · 4 points
HN discussionPayPal, teaching users to become phishing victims since 2019 https://www.attejuvonen.fi/paypal-sends-phishing-emails/
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on “PayPal to support Ethereum and Bitcoin”Submitted If it weren't for those meddling cryptographers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNo, it's incorrect to say that running an email server requires just "a bit more work". Google basically no longer allows low volume servers to send mail. I wrote more about this here: https://www.attejuvonen.fi/dont-send-email-from-your-own-ser...
Comment linking /dont-send-email-from-your-own-server/
on “Gmail marking email from me as spam”Submitted Learn new skills as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> None of my emails are considered as spam, and I haven't touched the mail configuration since. Sounds like you never actually tried to measure the delivery rates of your outgoing email. No email server is actually able to get 100% of its outgoing mail past spam filters. I've ran my own email server for a few years and I can confirm that the article is making false claims. It's incredibly difficult to deliver email…
Comment linking /dont-send-email-from-your-own-server/
on “The “mail is hard” myth”Submitted Comparing the security of voting schemes (2019) as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> If you set everything up right, and choose the host for your mail server carefully, and never change IP, after a fairly short time you won't have much problem with being marked as spam. No more so than with any other email host. This is untrue. If you are the only person using your email server, your volume will be so low that the big providers (Gmail, Outlook, etc.) won't track your reputation. So, ironically, be…
Comment linking /dont-send-email-from-your-own-server/
on “Ask HN: Why can't I host my own email?”Submitted PayPal sends phishing emails to its customers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe first thing I have done to make sure this is not a crazy browser exploit was: document.onmousemove = console.log No console logs until I really move the mouse. Then I opened Chrome DevTools and checked what resources are loaded on the network tab, once I saw this, I figured the trick: https://www.attejuvonen.fi/mouse/arrow_m.png Since I'm on Ubuntu like the author, the moust indeed seems like my original one. Th…
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on “Show HN: This website moves your mouse cursor”Submitted If it weren't for those meddling cryptographers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://www.attejuvonen.fi/website-moves-your-cursor/ is related (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26661784 )
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on “Show HN: This website moves your mouse cursor”Submitted New Chrome exploit allows websites full control over the user's mouse cursor as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Having a banking license has huge advantages, namely being able to create money out of thin air ... No, the ability to create money out of thin air is related to the act of lending itself, it has nothing to do with a banking license. I wrote about this at length here: https://www.attejuvonen.fi/money-out-of-thin-air/
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on “Kraken Wins Bank Charter Approval”Submitted If it weren’t for those meddling cryptographers as a story · 2 points
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