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Fuzyll
Personal blog · fuzyll.comsecurityprogramming
Fuzyll is a personal blog at fuzyll.com about security and programming. Since 2017, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Fuzyll's posts on the capture-the-flag (CTF) scene and its changes, including a 2015 post on tool assistance and the Cyber Grand Challenge. One commenter calls the article interesting and well written.
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.
Hopelessly passionate husband, engineer, hacker, gamer, artist, and tea addict.
Most-linked posts?
- /2015/ctf-is-dead-long-live-ctf/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-16
What Hacker News says?
Related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48157559 Someone in the comments linked this post from 2015 talking about the Cyber Grand Challenge this post mentions, it's an interesting reminder that this didn't just pop out of nowhere. https://fuzyll.com/2015/ctf-is-dead-long-live-ctf/
Comment linking /2015/ctf-is-dead-long-live-ctf/
on “Learning-focused CTFs are Facing a Restructure”Submitted Fairness in Man vs. Machine Competitions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionInteresting and well written article that mirrors/foreshadows how LLMs do and will change other scenes. As I don't know much about the CTF scene, I looked for other takes on this topic. Here's an article from 2015 about how tool-assistance already changed CTFs: > Individual skill will undoubtedly be a factor next year. But, I'm left wondering whether next year's DEFCON CTF will tell us anything more than how well-de…
Comment linking /2015/ctf-is-dead-long-live-ctf/
on “The CTF scene is dead”