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daeken.com is a personal blog at daeken.com about security and programming. Since 2009, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 64 times, most often “Renraku: Future OS”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (15) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link daeken.com for hardware hacking and reverse engineering: the Hardware Hacker Manifesto, Emokit, superpacked JS demos, Renraku OS, and web security basics. Most links are cited as references.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 15 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Renraku: Future OS7 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2009-07-04
- Superpacking JS Demos5 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2011-08-31
- The Hardware Hacker Manifesto3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2010-09-21
- /emokit-hacking-the-emotiv-epoc-brain-computer-02 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-09-21
- Daeken's Blackhat paper on the security flaws in Onity locks2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-07-25
- Hacking the Emotiv EEG headset2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-09-13
- So You Want To Be A Breaker, Part 1: Web Security2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-03-17
- Confusing Crypto Blobs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-10-20
What Hacker News says?
No, they contain marshaled bytecode. I documented the format at http://daeken.com/python-marshal-format a while back (should still be more or less correct).
Comment linking /python-marshal-format
on “Leaping Brain's "Virtually Uncrackable" DRM is just an XOR with "RANDOM_STRING"”Submitted Breaker 101: An intensive online web security course as a story · 286 points
HN discussionNote: Chrome or Firefox with WebGL required. I also wrote an article on how I got this down to 1kb, http://daeken.com/superpacking-js-demos , and just released a new demo based on the same techniques (747 bytes): http://demoseen.com/windowpane/nufl0wer.png.html
Comment linking /superpacking-js-demos
on “A file that's both an acceptable HTML page and a JPEG (view source on it)”Submitted So You Want To Be A Breaker, Part 1: Web Security as a story · 261 points
HN discussionActually, the statistics today are largely better than at any point in history we have statistics for. Here's a nice aggregate: http://daeken.com/2014-04-16_Spoiler__The_World_Isn_t_On_Fir... There is a shitload of good things going on in the world. You just have to pull your head out of the negativity echochamber present in a lot of Internet communities, most notably parts of reddit.
Comment linking /2014-04-16_Spoiler__The_World_Isn_t_On_Fire.html
on “Welcome to a comet”Submitted Further Freedom Attacks as a story · 191 points
HN discussionThis is seriously awesome. While I've spent a lot of time reversing network protocols (and thus had a good foundation on which to pick up USB hacking (which I documented at http://daeken.com/hacking-the-belkin-network-usb-hub and, to a lesser extent, at http://daeken.com/emokit-hacking-the-emotiv-epoc-brain-compu... )), most people have never dropped to this level. We need more articles like this. Good work. Edit: S…
Comment linking /emokit-hacking-the-emotiv-epoc-brain-computer-0
on “Hacking the Kinect - How to hack USB device drivers”Submitted The Hardware Hacker Manifesto as a story · 105 points
HN discussionHere are some examples of HMAC canonicalization vulnerabilities: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2008-12-18-AWS-signature-ver... http://daeken.com/confusing-crypto-blobs
Comment linking /confusing-crypto-blobs
on “Cryptographic Right Answers”Submitted Confusing Crypto Blobs as a story · 102 points
HN discussionHN user daeken has been writing an OS in .NET http://daeken.com/renraku-future-os
Comment linking /renraku-future-os
on “BareMetal is a 64-bit OS for x86-64 based computers”Submitted Show HN: Super simple static blog generator, Benjen as a story · 90 points
HN discussionI very frequently start new .NET apps, and I by no means "only ever code to pay the bills" (in fact, I don't work as a programmer at all anymore). Here's a list of a few interesting .NET projects: http://easyhook.codeplex.com/ http://ccimetadata.codeplex.com/ http://www.mono-project.com/Cecil http://daeken.com/renraku-future-os http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/nethooker https://github.com/daeken/Dotpack (The latter…
Comment linking /renraku-future-os
on “AppHarbor (YC W11): "Azure Done Right"”Submitted Superpacking JS Demos as a story · 63 points
HN discussionThere's a post about the background and motivation for the OS (Renraku) here: http://daeken.com/renraku-future-os If you want to talk more about it or OS dev in general, feel free to ping me on IRC (Daeken on freenode) or on AIM (bloomfilter).
Comment linking /renraku-future-os
on “A full TCP/IP stack in under 200 LoC (and the power of DSLs)”Submitted Onity's plan to mitigate hotel lock hack as a story · 62 points
HN discussion> I think the next wave in the 'real' OS wave is going to be something very much different than what we think of today, something where it assumes there is a network behind it and that the rest of itself is out there somewhere as APIs. When coming up with design goals for my OS ( http://daeken.com/renraku-future-os ) there were two things that I conceived of that naturally led to a third: 1) Everything is an object…
Comment linking /renraku-future-os
on “We Need More Operating Systems”Submitted Responsible Disclosure Can Be Anything But as a story · 60 points
HN discussionThat was my project, and not very well haha. It worked, if you consider a lack of shaders, lighting (IIRC), and other critical things to be "working". Shaders were a PITA for a few reasons, not the least of which being that the D3D10 shader bytecode was completely undocumented. Spent a couple months doing nothing but reversing the bytecode format, and things sort of fell apart after that. All the code's out there, t…
Comment linking /alky-postmortem
on “IE10 platform preview available - with native HTML 5”Submitted Injecting Arbitrary Python Into EVE Online as a story · 57 points
HN discussionHuh, didn't think this would be posted. This is a little demo effect I threw together last week when I was bored. It's built on top of WebGL (the effect itself is really just in a shader), and the reason it looks like a PNG is that it's a self-extracting PNG as described in my article here: http://daeken.com/superpacking-js-demos
Comment linking /superpacking-js-demos
on “Fl0wer.png.html”Submitted Renraku: Future OS as a story · 46 points
HN discussionEmokit project announcement that led to this post: http://daeken.com/emokit-hacking-the-emotiv-epoc-brain-compu... Discussion thread on Emotiv's forums relating to Cody's Emokit project: http://www.emotiv.com/forum/forum15/topic879/
Comment linking /emokit-hacking-the-emotiv-epoc-brain-computer-0
on “The Hardware Hacker Manifesto”Submitted Tell HN: My new product, Dotpack, a .NET binary packer as a story · 40 points
HN discussionYou mean like this? http://demoseen.com/windowpane/magister.png.html (I'm not the creator, I just happen to share an IRC channel with them.) There is a description of how it works at http://daeken.com/superpacking-js-demos
Comment linking /superpacking-js-demos
on “A simultaneous OS X binary, PDF file, jar file, and HTML page”Submitted Renraku OS: Initial Release as a story · 39 points
HN discussionThat reminds me of this (from HN a while back): http://daeken.com/superpacking-js-demos An html/png hybrid (among other hacks)
Comment linking /superpacking-js-demos
on “No HTML needed”Submitted Distributed Balance as a story · 38 points
HN discussionI used 960gs for the first time last night, to build the template for http://daeken.com/ (had to finally switch from Posterous). It was amazingly simple, even for someone completely CSS brain-dead. Really can't say enough good things about it.
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on “CSS Front-end Frameworks with comparison”Submitted Python Marshal Format as a story · 36 points
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