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Information Camouflage
Personal blog · bruceediger.com · on HN as bediger4000securityprogrammingmath
Information Camouflage is a personal blog at bruceediger.com about security, programming and math. Since 2023, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “Offensive Internet Posture”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One comment links the blog's honeypot-design post and its contact page, asking why the contact page includes a fake form. The linked posts concern honeypot design for trapping spam.
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?
- Offensive Internet Posture2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-05
What Hacker News says?
Thanks for reading my blog post and thinking about it. I thought of cache as well, the 3 machines I'm running benchmarking on are all very different. The M2 Macbook has 128-byte cache lines, as opposed to the other 2 machines, which have 64-byte ache lines. The old Dell R530 has level 1 through 3 caches, the others have only levels 1 and 2. I'm still trying to understand CPU caching and see if I can correlate it to…
Comment linking /posts/mergesort-investigation-3/
on “Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?”Submitted TFTP Honey Pot Results as a story · 9 points
HN discussionI don't think so. There's no garbage generated during the sort, which is what I'm timing. I'm sure that GC runs during the sorts, but it won't do significant amounts of work because of that. A C-transliteration of my original Go algorithm shows similar overall performance, with performance drops at the same list lengths. Forcing garbage collection right after each sort (releasing all references to the sorted linked…
Comment linking /posts/mergesort-investigation-10/
on “Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?”Submitted Tic Tac Toe Bot as a story · 5 points
HN discussionTrying to figure out a bizarre performance drop in a merge sort I wrote for one of those daily coding problems. https://bruceediger.com/posts/mergesort-investigation-1/ It seems that adding one node to a linked list causes a repeatable performance drop. That is, linked lists of say 2^21 nodes sort faster than lists of 2^21 + 1 nodes.
Comment linking /posts/mergesort-investigation-1/
on “Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?”Submitted Offensive Internet Posture as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWikipedia gives an example merge sort that does nearly exactly what you describe. That algorithm has some weird performance drops at 2^n+1 sorted elements. https://bruceediger.com/posts/mergesort-investigation-8/
Comment linking /posts/mergesort-investigation-8/
on “Nearly all binary searches and mergesorts are broken (2006)”Submitted Caught a .git/Config Crawler as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://bruceediger.com
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on “Ask HN: Software people, where are you taking your careers next?”Submitted Offensive Internet Posture as a story · 3 points
HN discussionDaniel Meissler has a couple of articles about this, one technical, one motivational: https://danielmiessler.com/blog/so-you-want-to-start-a-blog https://danielmiessler.com/blog/why-everyone-needs-a-blog This kind of addresses the "how do I get over $X": https://igorstechnoclub.com/why-you-need-to-blog-more-even-i... I took Meissler's advice after reading the "Why Everyone Needs a Blog" article. I had already come t…
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on “Ask HN: How to get started writing a blog?”Submitted AutoMondrian as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt can be worse: on a recent post here[0] the author says the contact page on his blog "does nothing but wastes spammers time and effort"[1]. Granted, he links to an email on said page, but why include a fake contact form[2] on your page then? [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48508069 [1] https://bruceediger.com/posts/honeypot-design/ [2] https://bruceediger.com/contact/
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on “Leave a Trace”Submitted Goofing on Meta's AI Crawler as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://bruceediger.com
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted How often does my home's IP address change? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI use Hugo. A while back, I evolved a WordPress honeypot. The amount and variety of attacks that WordPress draws is just astonishing, I can't comprehend using it. https://bruceediger.com/phparasites/ https://github.com/bediger4000/php-malware-analysis I rent a $5 a month VPS to run it. Effectively nobody reads blogs, even a cheap VPS can handle the traffic. I get to learn about DNS and other stuff to run it too. As…
Comment linking /phparasites/
on “Ask HN: Where and how do you blog? What platforms etc.?”Submitted Web Page Crawler Revealed – Tracking Down Requests from Contabo GmbH as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://bruceediger.com/nws/ That was one of them.
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on “Show HN: Distillr – Enter a URL for an article and get a concise summary back”Submitted Lessons from Napoleon about 10 lessons from Napoleon as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://bruceediger.com
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on “Ask HN: What's Your Homepage?”Submitted Honeypot Design as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Depth-First Unary Degree Sequence as a story · 1 points
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