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Josh Liebow-Feeser
Personal blog · joshlf.com/postsprogrammingsecurity
Josh Liebow-Feeser's personal blog at joshlf.com covers programming and security. Since 2018, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Memory safety is a matter of life and death”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Josh Liebow-Feeser's pages as sources on Rust safety: slides from talks on writing network drivers and on safety in unsafe Rust, and a post on memory safety. Comments cite or link them without judging them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The homepage of Josh Liebow-Feeser
Most-linked posts?
- Memory safety is a matter of life and death5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2026-06-02
- Introducing Mundane, a new cryptography library for Rust (blog post)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-11-13
What Hacker News says?
Here are Joshua’s slides from the talk mentioned above: https://joshlf.com/files/talks/Move%20Fast%20and%20Don't%20B...
Comment linking /files/talks/Move%20Fast%20and%20Don't%20Break%20Things.pdf
on “Writing Network Drivers in Rust [pdf]”Submitted Introducing Mundane, a new cryptography library for Rust (blog post) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI think that example comes from the talk "Safety in an Unsafe World" [0, slides at 1]. There are some crates which implement lock ordering as well (e.g., [2, 3]). lock-ordering states it's inspired by the technique discussed in the talk as well, for what it's worth. [0]: https://youtu.be/qd3x5MCUrhw?t=1001 (~16:41 in case the timestamp link doesn't work) [1]: https://joshlf.com/files/talks/Safety%20in%20an%20Unsafe%…
Comment linking /files/talks/Safety%20in%20an%20Unsafe%20World.pdf
on “Pitfalls of Safe Rust”Submitted Memory safety is a matter of life and death as a story · 3 points
HN discussionBut it links to this post https://joshlf.com/posts/memory-safety-life-and-death/ Under a "it doesn't matter it's memory-safe if..."
Comment linking /posts/memory-safety-life-and-death/
on “My Software North Star”Submitted Introducing Mundane, a new cryptography library for Rust as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rust has higher kinded types already, but only sinners can use them as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Coming Programming Language Renaissance as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Brush Your Teeth at Work as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Safety in an Unsafe World as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Memory Safety Is a Matter of Life and Death as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Memory safety is a matter of life and death as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Memory safety is a matter of life and death as a story · 1 points
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