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Chris Partridge
Personal blog · chris.partridge.techsecurityprogramming
Chris Partridge's personal blog at chris.partridge.tech covers security and programming. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Someone tried baiting people into downloading malware on r/cybersecurity”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-24, 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 this blog for posts on web traffic and protocols, including a piece on request amplification from Mastodon servers hitting websites and one on extensions for QUIC/HTTP/3.
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.
A security engineer's blog about his projects, research, philosophy, and career.
Most-linked posts?
- Someone tried baiting people into downloading malware on r/cybersecurity2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-10-01
- Request Amplification in Mastodon (2022)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-07
What Hacker News says?
It's not personal, but Mastodon has DDoSed my website and many others, e.g.: https://itsfoss.com/news/mastodon-link-problem/ https://kevquirk.com/blog/mastodon-is-ddosing-me/ https://chris.partridge.tech/2022/request-amplification-in-m... https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/11/mastodon-stampede/ https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/06/mastodon_delays_fix_d... Mastodon servers' collective behaviour DDoSes the sites its user…
Comment linking /2022/request-amplification-in-mastodon/
on “I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon”Submitted Someone tried baiting people into downloading malware on r/cybersecurity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis is quite timely: https://chris.partridge.tech/2020/extensions-the-next-genera...
Comment linking /2020/extensions-the-next-generation-of-malware/help-for-users/
on “The majority of Facebook's traffic now uses QUIC and HTTP/3”Submitted Why is a 2k-IP Botnet Torrenting Ubuntu? (2021) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Write up about malware bait on r/cybersecurity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Request Amplification in Mastodon (2022) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
