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Personal blog · iliana.fyi/blogsystemssecurityprogramming

iliana.fyi is a personal blog at iliana.fyi about systems, security and programming. Since 2022, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Getting my library cards onto my phone the hard way”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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12mentions?
10HN people?
2022–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2023

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

Why HN links it

Linked only as a joke in an aCropalypse thread, pointing to an animated GIF (netscape.gif) on the site. No comment discusses the writing itself.

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.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Getting my library cards onto my phone the hard way
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-08-15

What Hacker News says?

  1. hu3 · 2023-03-31
    It's an animated gif! https://iliana.fyi/netscape.gif

    Comment linking /netscape.gif

    on “The undocumented Android change that led to aCropalypse was reported during beta”
  2. muterad_murilax · 2023-12-31

    Submitted I forked SteamOS for my living room PC as a story · 472 points

    HN discussion
  3. xena · 2022-09-19

    Submitted There is no “software supply chain” as a story · 252 points

    HN discussion
  4. xrd · 2022-04-04

    Submitted Tailscale’s human-scale networks are still controlled by Google and Microsoft as a story · 132 points

    HN discussion
  5. xena · 2022-08-22

    Submitted An archeaological dive through a software copyright concern as a story · 22 points

    HN discussion
  6. todsacerdoti · 2023-10-23

    Submitted Building an x86 Linux kernel that works with both systemd-boot and kexec as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. luu · 2023-04-11

    Submitted The [E]Nd of Eeeee as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. luu · 2023-03-30

    Submitted The undocumented Android change that led to aCropalypse was reported during beta as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. fanf2 · 2025-03-15

    Submitted I forked SteamOS for my living room PC (2023) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. alex_hirner · 2023-10-28

    Submitted Getting my library cards onto my phone the hard way as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. elasticdog · 2023-09-23

    Submitted Getting my library cards onto my phone the hard way as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. surprisetalk · 2023-08-15

    Submitted Getting my library cards onto my phone the hard way as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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