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levigross.com
Personal blog · levigross.com · on HN as levigrossprogrammingsecurity
levigross.com is a personal blog at levigross.com about programming and security. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Python (Pystone) benchmark on 2.6,2.7,3.2 (PyPy and Jython as well)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Cited in one thread for pystone benchmark results showing Python 3.2 running faster than 2.6 and 2.7. The other comment concerns Rails timing-attack mitigations and does not discuss the author's writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Python (Pystone) benchmark on 2.6,2.7,3.2 (PyPy and Jython as well)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-12-17
What Hacker News says?
I see a timing attack in the list. It's fairly trivial to mitigate against this in the majority of languages nowadays [1] [2] [3] etc.. I presume this can also be mitigated by implementing rate limiting on your authentication endpoints, although that should also be implemented for other reasons. [1] https://golang.org/pkg/crypto/subtle/#ConstantTimeCompare [2] http://php.net/manual/en/function.hash-equals.php [3] ht…
Comment linking /2014/02/07/constant-time-comparison-functions-in...-python-haskell-clojure-and-java/
on “Multiple security vulnerabilities in Rails”Submitted Was Reddit hacked this morning? as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> I'm pretty sure they'd have announced it if Python 3 ever got faster than Python 2. According to this blog post, 3.2 performance now exceeds 2.6 and 2.7, using the same pystone benchmark that the 3.0 release notes refer to: http://www.levigross.com/post/2340736877/pystone-benchmark-o...
Comment linking /post/2340736877/pystone-benchmark-on-2-6-2-7-3-2
on “What’s New In Python 3.3”Submitted 37 Tips for Interviewing a tech company as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A review of Django 1.4's Password authentication as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to choose a software development firm as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Python Programming Trivia as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mitigating side channel timing attacks in Python as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Python (Pystone) benchmark on 2.6,2.7,3.2 (PyPy and Jython as well) as a story · 1 points
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