Hacker Blogs
Work in progress: 181,232 of 181,233 sites checked so far, more every week · updated 2 Nov 2026Missing a blog? Tell us

Top all-time · #15639

D

disk91.com

Personal blog · disk91.comhardwaresecurity

disk91.com is a personal blog at disk91.com about hardware and security. Since 2019, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Critical Analysis of the Meshtastic Protocol”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-11, and you can follow it by feed.

Visit the blog
5mentions?
5HN people?
2019–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2019

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

An IoT blog whose LoRa posts include a critical analysis of Meshtastic's managed flood routing. Commenters link it when discussing mesh network resilience and routing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

IoT, Sigfox, LoRaWan, technology, hardware, security, hacking (DiY)

Most-linked posts?

  1. Critical Analysis of the Meshtastic Protocol
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-06-16

What Hacker News says?

  1. UltraSane · 2025-06-16
    Meshtatisc's routing is extremely primitive and inefficient. https://www.disk91.com/2024/technology/lora/critical-analysi...

    Comment linking /2024/technology/lora/critical-analysis-of-the-meshtastic-protocol/

    on “Start your own Internet Resiliency Club”
  2. xav19 · 2019-09-20

    Submitted A Sigfox IoT Device for $1 as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. 1shooner · 2026-01-16
    My understanding is that it relates to the flood routing in meshtastic. I haven't heard a real-world failure example, but another comment on this post mentioned defcon being a case (I don't know anything about that). I did find this assessment: https://www.disk91.com/2024/technology/lora/critical-analysi... And here is Meshtastics explanation of the rationale behind 'managed flood routing': https://meshtastic.org/bl…

    Comment linking /2024/technology/lora/critical-analysis-of-the-meshtastic-protocol/

    on “Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark”
  4. fanf2 · 2025-07-10

    Submitted Critical Analysis of the Meshtastic Protocol as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. tdrnd · 2019-09-30

    Submitted What Is Amazon Sidewalk? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

Search all of HN for disk91.com