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David Sopas

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David Sopas's personal blog at davidsopas.com covers security and hardware. Since 2017, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Gone in 30 seconds – a HID cable story tale”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
4HN people?
2017–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2017

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

Why HN links it

The linked posts are about Bluetooth Low Energy wardriving. The one comment is a complaint that the site's smooth scrolling breaks scrolling and the back shortcut on Mac, not a comment on the writing.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Gone in 30 seconds – a HID cable story tale
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-12-27

What Hacker News says?

  1. David: If you are reading this, your site has very annoying "smooth scroll" that breaks scrolling for all mac users and also breaks the "back" shortcut on mac trackpads. Would recommend removing this: https://www.davidsopas.com/wp-content/themes/blg/framework/j...

    Comment linking /wp-content/themes/blg/framework/js/SmoothScroll.js

    on “Bluetooth Low Energy WarDriving 101”
  2. Submitted Bluetooth Low Energy WarDriving 101 as a story · 95 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Gone in 30 seconds – a HID cable story tale as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Gone in 30 seconds – a DIY HID cable story tale – Bettercap and CrazyRadio as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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