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Kevin Patel
Personal blog · kevinpatel.xyz/posts · on HN as alligatorplumsecurityprogramming
Kevin Patel's personal blog at kevinpatel.xyz covers security and programming. Since 2024, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Package Manager Where This Regularly Happens”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog as a source or example, not for its writing. One cites a post on NPM package compromises, and another points to the posts index as an example of a blog listing page.
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.
Kevin Patel - Application Security Engineer @ NISC
Most-linked posts?
- 'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Package Manager Where This Regularly Happens3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-05-16
What Hacker News says?
There’s actually a blog post with that exact title. https://kevinpatel.xyz/posts/no-way-to-prevent-this/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155690
Comment linking /posts/no-way-to-prevent-this/
on “NPM packages from RedHat have been compromised”Submitted Intro to CSP report-to and report-URI HTTP headers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHave there been any improvements to the Syncthing conflict situation over the past several years? Syncthing conflics were such a pain point for me that I abandoned it 5 years ago in favor of application-specific synchronization protocols. Joplin for notes, Ente for photos, and Bitwarden for passwords. Most conflicts I encountered seemed like they should have easily been handled with something designed to merge text…
Comment linking /posts/no-way-to-prevent-this/
on “Self Hosting Passwords”Submitted 'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Package Manager Where This Regularly Happens as a story · 2 points
HN discussionno i am talking about a page like this - https://www.seangoedecke.com/page/2 or - https://mmapped.blog/posts this or - https://kevinpatel.xyz/posts/ this
Comment linking /posts/
on “You don't know HTML Lists”