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Kiril Mitov

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Kiril Mitov's personal blog at kmitov.com covers programming, career and security. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “When the policeman becomes the criminal – how Cloudflare attacks my machines”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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8mentions?
4HN people?
2020–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2021

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

Why HN links it

Linked in a thread about Cloudflare and the author's machines. The one comment cites his earlier GoDaddy/Microsoft 365 post as an example of blaming others for problems.

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. When the policeman becomes the criminal – how Cloudflare attacks my machines
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-09-03

What Hacker News says?

  1. Their previous detailing of GoDaddy/Microsoft issues has the same sort of "it's someone else's fault!" but reads heavily like a misunderstanding on the poster's part. https://kmitov.com/posts/godaddymicrosoft-365-and-how-an-ema... (In this case, that GoDaddy resells Office 365, and the interactions between the two.)

    Comment linking /posts/godaddymicrosoft-365-and-how-an-email-was-compromised-for-about-a-day/

    on “When the policeman becomes the criminal – how Cloudflare attacks my machines”
  2. Submitted When the policeman becomes the criminal – how Cloudflare attacks my machines as a story · 44 points

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  3. Submitted When the policeman becomes the criminal – how Cloudflare attacks my machines as a story · 9 points

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  4. Submitted How the software becomes unmaintainable? – a practical example as a story · 3 points

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  5. Submitted A bad UI message prevented us from resolving a 5 days feature downtime as a story · 2 points

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  6. Submitted Time to be praised as “The Guru”. How to move between Git repos and keep history as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted $ Heroku Whoami as a story · 1 points

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  8. Submitted Technical (Code) Debt and how we handle it as a story · 1 points

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