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Kevin Smith
Personal blog · kevinsmith.ioprogrammingcareer
Kevin Smith's personal blog at kevinsmith.io covers programming and career. Since 2018, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Sanitize your inputs? I think not”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-04, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this post on input sanitizing, which one commenter says convinced them to use prepared statements instead, since sanitizing is never perfect.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- Sanitize your inputs? I think not2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-10-22
What Hacker News says?
This is why in my new project I decided to use prepared statements wherever possible, it seemed like simply the best choice because sanitizing is never perfect. Here's the article that convinced me in case anybody else wants to read: https://kevinsmith.io/sanitize-your-inputs/
Comment linking /sanitize-your-inputs/
on “Scientific notation bug in MySQL left AWS WAF vulnerable to SQL injection”Submitted Modern PHP without a framework as a story · 221 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sanitize your inputs? I think not as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Coding as the manipulation of data vs OOP as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modern PHP Without a Framework (2018) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sanitize Your Inputs? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion