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Fixel Smith
Personal blog · analytics.fixelsmith.com/posts · on HN as analyticsfsdatasecurity
Fixel Smith's personal blog at analytics.fixelsmith.com covers data and security. Since 2026, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on SQL patterns for catching transaction fraud, per the HN thread title. One commenter says the author is an AI-generated persona and the article has little to do with fraud analysis.
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.
Practical SQL, fraud detection, and public-sector data work — by an experienced Program Integrity Analyst.
Most-linked posts?
- SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-13
What Hacker News says?
Hacker News, we need to talk! "Fixel Smith" is an AI-generated person, with an article that has very little to do with fraud analysis. 'This' is also a music artist (1), novelist (2), fraud analyst (3), influencer (4), and whatever else you can imagine. 215+ points and 60 comments, and very few notice it's quite a fake post — and no one that it's an AI person? 1. https://www.amazon.it/Forged-Soundtrack-Explicit-Fixe…
Comment linking /
on “SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud”Submitted Detecting fraud rings: the social-graph problem in disguise as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Eight window-function tricks beyond LAG and ROW_NUMBER as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Six SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud as a story · 1 points
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