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kivikakk.ee

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kivikakk.ee is a personal blog at kivikakk.ee about programming and hardware. Since 2013, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Breaking homegrown crypto”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-09, and you can follow it by feed.

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24mentions?
15HN people?
2013–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2016

Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link kivikakk.ee for its write-up of a GitHub contribution-calendar pixel art project (Contrigraph), a recreation of the GitHub t-shirt. It is also cited in a discussion of security advice.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 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?

  1. Breaking homegrown crypto
    9 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2016-02-20
  2. Being sorta useful in vim
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-04-19
  3. /2013/05/07/contrigraph.html
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-05-21

What Hacker News says?

  1. voltagex_ · 2016-03-13
    There has to be a middle ground between saying "security is simple" and "the sky is falling". I think stating things like "don't trust user input" risks things like https://kivikakk.ee/cryptography/2016/02/20/breaking-homegro... happening. Security is hard, programming is hard, we should all get better at both.

    Comment linking /cryptography/2016/02/20/breaking-homegrown-crypto.html

    on “Data is a Toxic Asset”
  2. tdurden · 2016-03-12

    Submitted Breaking homegrown crypto as a story · 282 points

    HN discussion
  3. kivikakk · 2013-05-21
    At this point I'll point out my recreation of the GitHub t-shirt: https://github.com/contrigraph And the write-up: http://kivikakk.ee/2013/05/07/contrigraph.html

    Comment linking /2013/05/07/contrigraph.html

    on “Pixel art for your Github contribution calendar”
  4. wtbob · 2016-02-21

    Submitted Breaking homegrown crypto as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  5. CiPHPerCoder · 2017-03-19
    > Look, you can't put up a blog post titled "How We Engineered CMS Airship to Be Simply Secure" and say that when asked "well, how did you actually engineer it to be secure?". In your post you talk about problems all solved by a framework, and apparently you haven't even evaluated what is out there already and rushed headfirst into building it all yourself. I've looked at Laravel, about two years ago. http://seclist…

    Comment linking /cryptography/2016/02/20/breaking-homegrown-crypto.html

    on “How We Engineered CMS Airship to Be Simply Secure”
  6. l0gicpath · 2014-01-02

    Submitted Erlang is slow: and other rubbish as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  7. bentoner · 2013-09-26
    This one's based on the Github tshirt: https://github.com/contrigraph See http://kivikakk.ee/2013/05/07/contrigraph.html

    Comment linking /2013/05/07/contrigraph.html

    on “The proper way to contribute on Github”
  8. kivikakk · 2013-05-10

    Submitted Snapchat: not for state secrets as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  9. rubikscube · 2016-02-24

    Submitted Breaking homegrown crypto as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  10. yxlx · 2016-03-11

    Submitted Breaking homegrown crypto as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  11. antitamper · 2016-02-21

    Submitted Breaking homegrown crypto as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  12. todsacerdoti · 2024-06-27

    Submitted Python Still Surprises as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. cujanovic · 2016-02-22

    Submitted Breaking CodeIgniter's homegrown crypto as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. tdurden · 2016-02-20

    Submitted Breaking homegrown crypto as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. bpierre · 2014-04-24

    Submitted Being sorta useful in vim as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. kivikakk · 2013-05-20

    Submitted Erlang is slow: and other rubbish as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. kivikakk · 2013-05-13

    Submitted Inefficiencies: using C++ and the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. todsacerdoti · 2024-05-28

    Submitted Chisel and C++, Together at Last as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  19. ddtaylor · 2021-03-13

    Submitted Breaking Homegrown Crypto (2016) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  20. todsacerdoti · 2021-02-19

    Submitted Inkplate Done Quick as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. todsacerdoti · 2021-02-17

    Submitted Escapology: How, when and why to encode and escape as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. todsacerdoti · 2021-02-13

    Submitted DTB Parser Implementing Notes as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. kivikakk · 2014-04-19

    Submitted Being sorta useful in vim as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. ghc · 2013-09-29

    Submitted Escapology: how, when and why to encode and escape as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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