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cranklin.com is a personal blog at cranklin.wordpress.com about programming and security. Since 2011, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Let's Create Our Own Cryptocurrency”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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23mentions?
9HN people?
2011–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 9 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link cranklin.com posts about hacking Square card readers, including using one with a reel-to-reel tape machine, and about Square readers being used as credit card skimmers.

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.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Let's Create Our Own Cryptocurrency
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-07-11
  2. Hacking the Square with Arduino
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-06-16
  3. Creating an ELF Virus Using Assembly
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-12-26

What Hacker News says?

  1. I think this is it. Square probably means that as they read the bits from the reader they are being encrypted, then sent. Not stored and plain text then encrypted before being sent. There are already plenty of examples of people hacking Squares[1], mostly to use them as credit card skimmers though. This is one of the coolest most creative hacks I have seen for it though, bravo. [1] http://cranklin.wordpress.com/2012…

    Comment linking /2012/01/04/hacking-the-square/

    on “Using a Square Reader with a reel-to-reel”
  2. Submitted Let's Create Our Own Cryptocurrency as a story · 14 points

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  3. Submitted Let’s Create Our Own Cryptocurrency as a story · 11 points

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  4. Submitted Creating an ELF Virus Using Assembly as a story · 6 points

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  5. Submitted My Experimental Doorbell as a story · 5 points

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  6. Submitted Hacking is so easy, even a computer can do it as a story · 4 points

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  7. Submitted Let’s Build an Ethereum Lottery Contract with Scheduled Triggers as a story · 3 points

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  8. Submitted How to create a virus using the assembly language as a story · 3 points

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  9. Submitted So You Think You Have What it Takes to Start a Business? (Engineer's POV) as a story · 3 points

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  10. Submitted Creating an ELF Virus with Assembly as a story · 2 points

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  11. Submitted Why We Code as a story · 2 points

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  12. Submitted Hacking the Square with Arduino as a story · 2 points

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  13. Submitted You can't beat me in a Facebook poke battle. Here's why... as a story · 2 points

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  14. Submitted So You Think You Have What it Takes to Start a Business? as a story · 2 points

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  15. Submitted Lunch Cam Money Jar Hack as a story · 2 points

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  16. Submitted That Time I Got Pwned for .2 ETH as a story · 1 points

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  17. Submitted Calculating Lead in Sporting Clays Targets as a story · 1 points

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  18. Submitted Engineers, Stay Agile as a story · 1 points

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  19. Submitted Converting Geographical Coordinates to Cartesian Coordinates as a story · 1 points

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  20. Submitted How I (unintentionally) Killed My Instagram Account - Bots as a story · 1 points

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  21. Submitted Ever wonder how Stephen Hawking communicates? as a story · 1 points

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  22. Submitted How to make a simple computer virus with Python as a story · 1 points

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  23. Submitted Crack This Password as a story · 1 points

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