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Davy Wybiral
Personal blog · davywybiral.blogspot.comprogrammingweb
Davy Wybiral writes davy wybiral, a personal blog at davywybiral.blogspot.com about programming and web. Since 2008, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Always secure your localhost servers”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite this Blogspot blog by Davy Wybiral for posts on WebAssembly performance, a Python-to-JavaScript transpiler, and browser access to local network services as a privacy issue.
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.
(exploratory programming and more)
Most-linked posts?
- Always secure your localhost servers2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-05-31
What Hacker News says?
Weird. I remember hating it ages ago. So much so that I was developing a Python->JavaScript transpiler (before all the cool kids were writing transpilers!) and blogging about how bad it was [1]. Granted, that was back in 2008 and most of my complaints have been addressed now almost a decade later (except for destructors, it still doesn't have those, but I also don't need them anymore). These days I move between Java…
Comment linking /2008/01/javascript-bad.html
on “What makes WebAssembly fast?”Submitted Project Fi will take your Google Voice number as a story · 74 points
HN discussionPretty much all modern browsers allow access to localhost, even from TLS pages. They treat localhost as though it were TLS so it's not even demoted to "mixed content". And beyond that they also allow mixed content for asset requests from TLS pages to non-TLS URLs of any IP address (for instance an AT&T modem configuration page at 192.168.1.254). This site detects all kinds of services running on your local network:…
Comment linking /2019/05/always-secure-your-localhost-servers.html
on “A problem worse than Zoom?”Submitted Always secure your localhost servers as a story · 5 points
HN discussionContext: https://davywybiral.blogspot.com/2019/05/always-secure-your-... also wow that really sucks that that is possible, lol
Comment linking /2019/05/always-secure-your-localhost-servers.html
on “Privacy violation using local service detection”Submitted Procedural trees with JavaScript as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted 'Trampolining' for recursion as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted NumericJS Logistic Regression Classifier as a story · 2 points
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