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Colm MacCárthaigh
Personal blog · veryseriousblog.comsystemssecurity
Colm MacCárthaigh writes Shuffle Sharding, a personal blog at veryseriousblog.com about systems and security. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Dissecting Lemire's nearly divisionless random number generator”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN links this blog for a technical post dissecting Lemire's nearly divisionless random number generator. The only comment is about the blog's self-description on its about page, not the post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Blog and the home page of sorts of Colm MacCárthaigh. Mostly about web services, distributed systems, security, cryptography, but also music and photography.
Most-linked posts?
- Dissecting Lemire's nearly divisionless random number generator2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-30
- Improving Security in S2n2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-14
What Hacker News says?
Perhaps too much an aside, from the about page of the blog: ...Influencer, Oxford comma enthusiast and Thought Leader Colm MacCárthaigh. Yikes! One assumes then that he's a Thought leader when it comes to Oxford comma enthusiasts? This is doing my head in. "Welcome to the very serious blog of Senior Principal Engineer, Keynote presenter, Touring Musician and producer, Cryptography Person, Open Source enthusiast, Phi…
Comment linking /about
on “Dissecting Lemire's nearly divisionless random number generator”Submitted Dissecting Lemire's nearly divisionless random number generator as a story · 188 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dissecting Lemire’s nearly divisionless random as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Improving Security in S2n as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Improving security in s2n, Amazon's TLS implementation as a story · 1 points
HN discussion