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Borepatch
Personal blog · borepatch.blogspot.comsecurityculture
Borepatch is a personal blog at borepatch.blogspot.com about security and culture. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link Borepatch posts on history and science, including a 2013 post on the rediscovered formula for Roman concrete. The other comment is about a legal case and does not mention the blog.
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.
Internet Security, music, and Dad Jokes. And pets - it's a blog, after all.
What Hacker News says?
At least one form of Roman concrete was better than anything we moderns had been able to come up with until we rediscovered the formula a few years ago. Link: http://borepatch.blogspot.com/2013/06/long-lost-roman-concre...
Comment linking /2013/06/long-lost-roman-concrete-formula.html
on “On Pins and Needles: Stylist Turns Ancient Hairdo Debate on Its Head (2013)”Submitted Online Banking begins to crumble as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt can happen here. I made a joke over Twitter and the cops seized a $15k firearm collection and I racked up $15k in legal bills. No warrants, no charges, no actual investigation. Lots of tricks, lies to my lawyer, backtracking, etc. I'd love to have my day in court because the joke was taken out of context from a long discussion of Just War Theory (which was being read and enjoyed by dozens of people, including som…
Comment linking /2011/01/i-am-tjic.html
on “Turkey charges pianist Fazil Say over Twitter posts”Submitted Did Israel hack Iran's Nuclear Program? as a story · 1 points
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