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bytes.zone
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bytes.zone is a personal blog at bytes.zone about programming and productivity. Since 2020, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 40 times, most often “What Is the Randomart Image For?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link bytes.zone posts on SSH randomart fingerprint images, hexadecimal notation, and the Sd script directory tool. Commenters cite them as sources or supporting examples rather than judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- What Is the Randomart Image For?4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-02-20
- Advice you might as well take3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-01-24
- Modeling Git Internals in Alloy, Part 3: Operations on Blobs and Trees2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-24
- Nix-Script2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-02
- Modeling Database Tables in Alloy2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-02
- Modeling CRDTs in Alloy – Counters2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-27
What Hacker News says?
Cool people: • https://tracydurnell.com • https://www.benkuhn.net • https://schmud.de • https://brandur.org • https://bytes.zone • https://cassidoo.co • https://www.chrbutler.com • https://sive.rs • https://fasterthanli.me • https://akkartik.name • https://www.todepond.com • https://blog.gingerbeardman.com • https://gwern.net • https://interconnected.org • https://jacobfilipp.com • https://johnnywebber.com • https:/…
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on “Ask HN: Favorite blog in 2024?”Submitted Should we design for iffy internet? as a story · 197 points
HN discussionNeat! In your post you mention that it takes a few seconds until you get to the prompt (and the waiting time is similar for the nix-shell shebang scripts), but recently someone made nix-script[0] to cache these scripts, resulting in a runtime on the order of dozens of milliseconds. Also, thanks for being dedicated enough to read the entire manual and give your impressions! If you spot typos, things that could be cle…
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on “Sd: My Script Directory”Submitted Should we design for iffy internet? as a story · 74 points
HN discussionGenerating an evil wallet where the last six characters or so match the original is probably feasible. I heard of this being done to SSH host keys. Someone invented randomart images to make it easier for humans to compare binary strings [1], but I'm not sure how well they fare against similar attacks. [1] https://bytes.zone/posts/what-is-the-randomart-image-for/
Comment linking /posts/what-is-the-randomart-image-for/
on “Probability of typing a wrong Bitcoin address”Submitted State-Transition Tables as a story · 49 points
HN discussionhttps://bytes.zone/posts/what-is-the-randomart-image-for/ > what is the randomart image for? > you can set VisualHostKey to yes in your SSH client config to get that information every time. > I left this on for a while and see if I started to be able to recognize the randomart images in the way the manual implies I'd be able to, and it turns out it worked! For example, I've started seeing the GitHub fingerprint (abo…
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on “Hexadecimal Sucks”Submitted Reducing Asset Size with Subsetting as a story · 26 points
HN discussionGood directories: - https://indieweb.org - Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27302195 My favorites: - gwern: https://www.gwern.net - Ben Kuhn: https://www.benkuhn.net - Shtetl-Optimized: https://scottaaronson.blog - Paul Graham: http://paulgraham.com - Lyn Alden: https://www.lynalden.com - Beng Tan: https://bengtan.com/interesting-things/ - Bartosz Ciechanowski: https://ciec…
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on “Ask HN: List of blogs maintained with love by independent website owners?”Submitted Digital Gardening in Obsidian as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modeling Git Internals in Alloy, Part 3: Operations on Blobs and Trees as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tinyping and Scrub Moves as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modeling Git Internals in Alloy, Part 2: Commits and Tags as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nix-Script as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted LFFS: Simplicity vs. Efficiency as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thing-a-Month as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kratky in the Basement as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Value of a Model Is More Making Than Having as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Tree-grepper. Like grep, but uses tree-sitter grammars as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trying (and Failing) to Speed Up String.startsWith as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learning Requires Effort as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tmux-Session as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modeling CRDTs in Alloy – Counters as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modeling CRDTs in Alloy – Counters as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modeling CRDTs in Alloy – the importance of idempotence as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modeling In-Flight Requests in Alloy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trying and Failing to Implement Artificial Ignorance as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modeling Git Internals in Alloy, Part 3: Operations on Blobs and Trees as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modeling Git Internals in Alloy, Part 1: Blobs and Trees as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Aligning Markdown Tables in Helix as a story · 1 points
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