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Eric Draken

Personal blog · ericdraken.comprogrammingsystems

Eric Draken's personal blog at ericdraken.com covers programming and systems. Since 2019, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf (2022)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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6mentions?
6HN people?
2019–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2021

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

Why HN links it

Linked for a post about a USB mouse jiggler, shared in a thread about a stolen laptop being used to get into a company network. The comment is only a bare link, so it says nothing about 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.

Eric Draken - Hard-Problem Solver

Most-linked posts?

  1. Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf (2022)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-27

What Hacker News says?

  1. https://ericdraken.com/usb-mouse-jiggler/

    Comment linking /usb-mouse-jiggler/

    on “From stolen laptop to inside the company network”
  2. Submitted Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf (2022) as a story · 756 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Clusterboard A64 Insidious Reset Problem: Solved as a story · 81 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Evaluating SQLite Performance by Testing All Parameters as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping Ads from Profobuf as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Defensive Programming for an Unreliable Financial API as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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