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Harald's Random Stuff
Personal blog · hkubota.wordpress.comprogrammingai
Harald's Random Stuff is a personal blog at hkubota.wordpress.com about programming and ai. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's reverse-engineering posts on IoT devices, such as a winter project write-up. One commenter found one of the linked posts interesting enough to point others to it.
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.
So many things to do, so little time
What Hacker News says?
This node npm supply chain attack incident is a wake up call that the current security model of mainstream operating systems such as Linux, MacOSX or Windows are no longer suitable for modern day threats and they need a "zero-trust" like model for applications. Mitigating supply chain attacks like this one requires adopting application sandboxing by default, assuming that any application can be compromised, and capa…
Comment linking /2020/12/31/comparing-sandboxing-tools/
on “My entire PC got wiped Do not download”Submitted GenAI does not Think nor Understand as a story · 22 points
HN discussionI just got home and was able to look at some of the RE efforts, here is one that looked interesting: https://hkubota.wordpress.com/2022/01/31/winter-project-colo...
Comment linking /2022/01/31/winter-project-colorlight-5a-75b-protocol/
on “Taking over a Dead IoT Company”Submitted Comparing Sandboxing Tools (2020) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion