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Den Delimarsky
Personal blog · den.dev/blog · on HN as dendsecurityprogrammingweb
Den Delimarsky's personal blog at den.dev covers security, programming and web. Since 2019, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 61 times, most often “The rise of user-hostile software”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link den.dev for a post urging readers to be property owners, not renters, online, and to build a home base beyond platforms like YouTube. Comments cite it in a thread on a video takedown.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Den Delimarsky is a Lead Maintainer of the Model Context Protocol. He writes about protocol design, security, reverse engineering, and Halo deep-dives.
Most-linked posts?
- The rise of user-hostile software4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-08-24
- Reverse Engineering the Stream Deck3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-07-30
- You Need to Become a Full Stack Person3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-11-07
- The Beauty of Having a Pi-Hole (2024)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-28
- Be a property owner and not a renter on the internet2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-03
- Windows needs a change in priorities2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-03-20
What Hacker News says?
Why do I get redirected to https://den.dev/ukraine ? This isn't a good idea. edit: https://archive.ph/q8ayE
Comment linking /ukraine
on “Windows needs a change in priorities”Submitted Windows needs a change in priorities as a story · 1194 points
HN discussion"Be a property owner and not a renter on the Internet" < https://den.dev/blog/be-a-property-owner-not-a-renter-on-the... > HN discussion: < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlcDHlK_RoY > If you keep working on Maggie's Farm, you'll keep encountering Maggie's rules. < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie%27s_Farm > Rely on YouTube for distribution, for now, but build a home base (or bases) elsewhere which you can fall…
Comment linking /blog/be-a-property-owner-not-a-renter-on-the-internet/
on “3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation”Submitted The rise of user-hostile software as a story · 456 points
HN discussionI recently wrote about this very topic: https://den.dev/blog/software-rentals/
Comment linking /blog/software-rentals/
on “Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth of games for inactivity”Submitted Be a property owner and not a renter on the internet as a story · 330 points
HN discussionI didn't say anything about web frameworks or chasing latest trends. Developing a cross-platform app that uses native interface elements is extremely time intensive and sometimes laughably complicated[1]. With design system I meant that designers create a spec how the UI should look like and behave (eg. the primary button in Firefox) and then engineers implement that in a reusable way. Designers can then use their o…
Comment linking /blog/windows-priority-shuffle/
on “Firefox UI/UX History”Submitted The Beauty of Having a Pi-Hole (2024) as a story · 325 points
HN discussionI'm saying that it's well worth taking a step back from the tree-level view, e.g. celebrating and being inspired by the intellectual and technical details of a smart industrious individual attempt to reasonable degree insulate themselves from the abuses of surveillance capital, and consider the forest-level view, that while few were paying much attention, our society in general, and the industry most HN readers cont…
Comment linking /blog/user-hostile-software/
on “How I re–over-engineered my home network for privacy and security”Submitted Reverse Engineering the Stream Deck+ as a story · 175 points
HN discussionReally cool! I've recently got really fed up with the default software and wrote my own library for .NET to manage the device[1]. For anyone curious, I've also documented how to reverse-engineer the USB protocol[2], so you can write your own libraries and pretty much set any buttons to anything (with much more OS control granularity). [1]: https://deck.surf [2]: https://den.dev/blog/reverse-engineering-stream-deck/
Comment linking /blog/reverse-engineering-stream-deck/
on “My Custom Stream Deck Toolkit”Submitted To set new tab as blank in MS Edge you need to enroll device in MDM as a story · 167 points
HN discussionSimilar wavelength, wrote this in August: https://den.dev/blog/user-hostile-software/
Comment linking /blog/user-hostile-software/
on “Ask HN: Why do so many developers seem hostile to their users these days?”Submitted Relentlessly Simplify as a story · 148 points
HN discussionhttps://den.dev Entirely static site built with Hugo. Blogging for a bit more than a decade now.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Behind the Spotify Wrapped API scenes as a story · 113 points
HN discussionThanks for reply and for have shared your project first! > I think we can refresh some the things that make it powerful with a fresh coat of paint, to make it more accessible to a “younger generation.” That's what scare me, again in general: I see regular small complaint of modern absurdity, posts like: - https://tiramisu.bearblog.dev/your-desktop-is-not-a-destinat... | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33838697…
Comment linking /blog/user-hostile-software/
on “Silver Bullet: Markdown-based extensible open source personal knowledge platform”Submitted Experian plans to sell more of your data as a story · 26 points
HN discussionDepending on the setup, you just have to be really careful to avoid confused deputy scenarios. I wrote about it: https://den.dev/blog/mcp-confused-deputy-api-management/
Comment linking /blog/mcp-confused-deputy-api-management/
on “Zero-Touch OAuth for MCP”Submitted What's the Deal with GitHub Spec Kit as a story · 16 points
HN discussionBeen blogging for more than a decade on my own site ( https://den.dev ). 1. Got my break in the tech industry thanks to a blog post on some reverse engineering tinkering I've been doing. 2. On multiple occasions, I ended up searching online for a problem only to land on a blog post I wrote years ago, so I use it as my own reference every once in a while. 3. Connected to a network of folks in the companies I've worke…
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on “Ask HN: What has your personal website/blog done for you?”Submitted Beware of Deceiving Authenticator Apps on Apple and Google Devices as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reverse Engineering the Stream Deck as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Rise of User-Hostile Software [2021] as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Email aliases are not a security measure as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Need to Become a Full Stack Person as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Old Security Rakes in New MCP Yards as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Uncovering Anyone's True Google Workspace Email Address from an Alias as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted I unlocked my own air quality sensor data with undocumented APIs and SQLite as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making 1:1s worth your time as a story · 4 points
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