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Hung Truong

Personal blog · hung-truong.com/blog · on HN as hungprogrammingsecurity

Hung Truong's personal blog at hung-truong.com covers programming and security. Since 2009, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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23mentions?
5HN people?
2009–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2011

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this post by Hung Truong about winning Facebook's 2009 Programming Environment Contest. The only comment is a bare link to it, so the description comes from the post's title and URL.

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.

The author on HN?

hung · 692 karma · member since 2010

http://www.hung-truong.com/

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

What Hacker News says?

  1. Awesome! I once wrote a boggle solver to beat my friends at Bogglific on Facebook. It was loads of fun until I was banned from the game. http://www.hung-truong.com/blog/2007/11/07/banished-from-bog...

    Comment linking /blog/2007/11/07/banished-from-boggle/

    on “Winning at Candy Crush”
  2. Submitted Google, Bing, and SERP Copying: Additional Evidence? as a story · 20 points

    HN discussion
  3. This happened to me, too. Here's my experience with how unresponsive Google was (and is): http://www.hung-truong.com/blog/2011/11/02/dropbox-referrals...

    Comment linking /blog/2011/11/02/dropbox-referrals-with-google-adwords/

    on “Running Dropbox affiliate ads cost me my Adwords account”
  4. Submitted How Ghost Inspector Helped Me Furnish My Home as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. Caching is nice, but HTTP has a built-in method: conditional GETs. I wrote up a blog post on how to do this with App Engine but it should work generally in Python using urllib2. http://www.hung-truong.com/blog/2010/12/01/conditional-gets-...

    Comment linking /blog/2010/12/01/conditional-gets-in-app-engine/

    on “An Introduction to Compassionate Screen Scraping”
  6. Submitted Rooting a Sony DPT-RP1 E-Reader for Maximum Manga Enjoyment as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. the winner: http://www.hung-truong.com/blog/2009/01/22/i-won-a-facebook-...

    Comment linking /blog/2009/01/22/i-won-a-facebook-contest/

    on “Facebook Programming Environment Contest”
  8. Submitted Banana Republic Stores Passwords in Plain Text as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. I'll start: http://www.hung-truong.com/blog/2010/12/31/2010-a-hung-truon...

    Comment linking /blog/2010/12/31/2010-a-hung-truong-year-in-review/

    on “Ask HN: What did you accomplish in 2010 and what are your goals for 2011”
  10. Submitted Exploiting Facebook Poll Design for Lulz as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted What Happened to Yahoo (and What Could Happen to iAd) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted 31 Days with Claude Code: What I Learned as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Reverse Engineering Quibi: Protocol Buffers and HLS Streaming as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Strange Copy Pasta in Developer Resumes as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Collecting Wedding Photos with Twilio MMS as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Hacking Google’s Text To Speech “API” as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted IAd Vs. AdMob – Clicks, Fill Rate, Impressions, eCPM and Revenue as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Conditional GETs in App Engine as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Facebook Information Download: Report Card as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Performance vs. Brand Advertising on iAd as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Adding Audio to My Blog with Qwen3-TTS Voice Cloning as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted How Ghost Inspector Helped Me Furnish My House as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Trolling Facebook polls for science (or "Facebook and the falsely viral UI") as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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