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Fox Ellison-Taylor
Personal blog · foxmoss.com/blog · on HN as foxmossprogrammingsystemssecurity
Fox Ellison-Taylor's personal blog at foxmoss.com covers programming, systems and security. Since 2024, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Reimplementing Tor from Scratch for a Single-Hop Proxy”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The comments are a shell command pointing at a post on packet filtering that blocks curl requests, and a remark about an exposed .git config. Neither says anything about the writing itself.
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.
FoxMoss is a developer interested in networking and low level programming.
Most-linked posts?
- Reimplementing Tor from Scratch for a Single-Hop Proxy2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-01
- How I block all 26M of your curl requests2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-29
What Hacker News says?
> curl -I --ciphers ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 https://foxmoss.com/blog/packet-filtering/
Comment linking /blog/packet-filtering/
on “How I block all 26M of your curl requests”Submitted How I block all 26M of your curl requests as a story · 208 points
HN discussionbtw you opensourced also your website ~$ curl https://foxmoss.com/.git/config [core] repositoryformatversion = 0 filemode = true bare = false logallrefupdates = true [remote "origin"] url = https://github.com/FoxMoss/PersonalWebsite fetch = +refs/heads/ :refs/remotes/origin/ [branch "master"] remote = origin merge = refs/heads/master
Comment linking /.git/config
on “How I block all 26M of your curl requests”Submitted Replacing My Window Manager with Google Chrome as a story · 105 points
HN discussionhttps://foxmoss.com & https://foxmoss.com/blog/ I write about really a wide variety of topics
Comment linking /blog/
on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Reimplementing Tor from Scratch for a Single-Hop Proxy as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'm Fox. I'm a 16 year old, and I've been working mostly working on making projects I thought were cool & would do well on the internet over the last year. You can check out my other blog posts if you want to get a sense of what that means: < https://foxmoss.com/blog >. Hack Club noticed these projects and thought I would be well suited to run an event. This was my reaction, I wanted to make something that could enc…
Comment linking /blog
on “I'm 16 and Running a Software Jam in a World of Slop”Submitted I'm 16 and Running a Software Jam in a World of Slop as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reimplementing Tor from Scratch for a Single-Hop Proxy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Identifying typing styles with Markov Chains as a story · 1 points
HN discussion