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Kushal Das
Personal blog · kushaldas.insecurityprogramming
Kushal Das's personal blog at kushaldas.in covers security and programming. Since 2013, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Moving Scratch generation to Python on browser”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Kushal Das's blog is linked as a source for notes from the Python Language Summit, covering plans for pip, virtualenv, requests and tab-completion in the default interpreter.
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.
FOSS and life. Kushal Das talks here.
Most-linked posts?
- Moving Scratch generation to Python on browser2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-09
What Hacker News says?
People are working (or planning to work) on some of those: * pip (sort of): http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0439/ * virtualenv: already in Python 3.3 * requests: http://kushaldas.in/posts/notes-from-language-summit-at-pyco... As for IPython, many would agree it's not suitable for inclusion, which is not necessarily a bad thing. That does not stop anyone from stealing some of its features for inclusion in the defa…
Comment linking /posts/notes-from-language-summit-at-pycon.html
on “Enable tab-completion in the interactive interpreter by default”Submitted Tracking my phone's silent connections as a story · 260 points
HN discussionSubmitted Walking Desk as a story · 48 points
HN discussionSubmitted Switching to emacs (after 16 years of vim) as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bad Web Application as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Defending against side channel attacks via dependencies as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Indian police attacked university campuses on government order as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Qubes OS 4.0rc3 and latest UEFI systems as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Encrypting drives with LUKS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing Python Extensions in Rust as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Securing verybad web application with only systemd as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My highest used Python function as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kushal Das: replyfast a Python module for signal as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted EktuPy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Moving Scratch generation to Python on browser as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Desktop application to create OpenPGP keys and upload to Yubikeys as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using sigstore-Python to sign and verify your software release as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vcrpy for web related tests as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted History of Hacker Ethic and Free Software Movement as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Document your code: part 3 as a story · 1 points
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