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codeinsecurity is a personal blog at codeinsecurity.wordpress.com about security, hardware and programming. Since 2012, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Proper decoupling capacitor practices, and why you should leave 100nF behind”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-02-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a 2013 post about Dropbox installation weakening ASLR on Windows 7. Commenters cite it as evidence, with no judgement of 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.
a mostly technical blog about things what which I done did or am looking at have
Most-linked posts?
- Proper decoupling capacitor practices, and why you should leave 100nF behind3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-01-25
- Dropbox disables ASLR on Windows2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-09-09
- The anti-virus age is over2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-06-13
What Hacker News says?
There are some absolute masters of PCB design on this site, I am far below that level, so take this all with a heap of salt. A lot of what follows is generally good advice but not everything is universally applicable. Basics: learn to use your EDA software, properly configure it with your board house's capabilities, get correct footprints, read and re-read and re-re-read the datasheets for everything you use. Study…
Comment linking /2025/01/25/proper-decoupling-practices-and-why-you-should-leave-100nf-behind/
on “Vibe-Coding a PCB – surprisingly good”Submitted Proper decoupling capacitor practices, and why you should leave 100nF behind as a story · 226 points
HN discussionInteresting! https://codeinsecurity.wordpress.com/2013/09/09/installing-d... https://0b4af6cdc2f0c5998459-c0245c5c937c5dedcca3f1764ecc9b2...
Comment linking /2013/09/09/installing-dropbox-prepare-to-lose-aslr/
on “Dropbox ignores user's complaints of poor performance for almost a year”Submitted Dropbox disables ASLR on Windows as a story · 196 points
HN discussionUnless apps and browser plugins appear which weaken ASLR, like several recent versions of DropBox in 32-bit & 64-bit DLLs, Windows 7 x64 SP1 - http://codeinsecurity.wordpress.com/2013/09/09/installing-dr... How vulnerable is ASLR in OSX?
Comment linking /2013/09/09/installing-dropbox-prepare-to-lose-aslr/
on “Ask HN: What are the implications of Apple moving to 64-bit architecture?”Submitted The anti-virus age is over as a story · 118 points
HN discussionSubmitted W^X policy violation affects Windows drivers compiled in VS 2013 and previous as a story · 106 points
HN discussionSubmitted Proper decoupling practices, and why you should leave 100nF behind as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Router Review: From nmap to firmware as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Anti-Virus Age is Over as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fixing Slow Launch on Intel’s Rapid Storage Technology / Virtual Raid as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Steam UAC bypass via code execution as a story · 1 points
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