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Brett Hardin

Personal blog · bretthard.in · on HN as bretthardinstartupsbusiness

Brett Hardin's personal blog at bretthard.in covers startups and business. Since 2012, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.

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5HN people?
2012–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 19 in 2012

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link Brett Hardin's posts on accepting payments and PCI compliance, and an experiment replacing a MacBook Pro with a Raspberry Pi 4 for a day. One commenter disputes the Raspberry Pi post.

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.

Brett Hardin reads, writes, and creates software.

The author on HN?

bretthardin · 590 karma · member since 2011

Brett Hardin @miscsecurity Written software for many startups. Previous life was infosec. Reach out if I can help you. http://bretthard.in

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

What Hacker News says?

  1. For what it's worth, PCI compliance as it stands today is complete BS. It provides a false sense of security and most of the PCI ASVs are the scourge of infosec. I can't tell you how many customers we have that use the cheapest possible PCI ASV for "compliance," but then use us in addition for "real security," despite the fact that we aren't an ASV. We've intentionally stayed away from becoming one thus far, actuall…

    Comment linking /2013/01/the-pci-asv-process-sucks/

    on “Accepting payments is getting harder”
  2. Submitted Avoid Distractions and Remain Focused as a story · 24 points

    HN discussion
  3. You are familiar with libraries and dependencies then. You know that its a very complicated mess of spaghetti. You also know that video editing is a very high use of a computer. Even for profit companies like Adobe has trouble with current hardware[1] I get you wanted to write a blog article. Content creation is cool. I don't think you get where computers and technology has come from and necessary where its going. T…

    Comment linking /post/dizzying-but-invisible-depth

    on “I Replaced My MacBook Pro with a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB for a Day”
  4. Submitted Automatic Updates Are The Future as a story · 20 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Free Palo Alto Office Space for 6 months as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted My AngelPad Experience - Constantly Learning as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Developers Shouldn't Have Access to The Operating System as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted A Guide to Raising a Seed Round as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Failure Is An Opportunity as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Value and Growth Hypothesis as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Challenge Yourself To Always Learn as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Do They Solve Hard Problems? as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Company Culture is Defined By You and Your Actions as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Unit Tests Shouldn't Begin with Should as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted How OAuth Works as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Programming Makes You High as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Facebook like Button is a Web Bug as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Liquidation Preferences with Examples as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Advice and Advisors as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Equity, Valuation, and Getting Rich as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Automatic Updates from the App Store as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Be Passionate Like a Kid as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Increasing Revenues Past the Initial Sales as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Believing in a Crazy Vision as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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