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Loren's blog
Personal blog · lorendb.dev/posts · on HN as LorenDBprogrammingscience
Loren's blog is a personal blog at lorendb.dev about programming and science. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 37 times, most often “Let's Ban SMS 2FA”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment is a note that the site's SCSS stylesheet returns a 404, not a remark on the writing. The linked post's HN thread is titled about a cartoon ad appearing in online ads.
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.
I write about technology and space sometimes.
Most-linked posts?
- Let's Ban SMS 2FA2 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2024-02-11
What Hacker News says?
I think we should just ban companies from implementing SMS 2FA. https://lorendb.dev/posts/lets-ban-sms-2fa/
Comment linking /posts/lets-ban-sms-2fa/
on “Second factor SMS: Worse than its reputation”Submitted Getting bitten by Intel's poor naming schemes as a story · 293 points
HN discussionFor me it's the ability to use a custom domain. See https://lorendb.dev/posts/the-case-for-custom-email-domains/ for my reasoning why I do this.
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on “Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email”Submitted Archiving Steam games for fun and profit as a story · 153 points
HN discussionFor anybody using Hugo, you also may be interested in https://lorendb.dev/posts/fixing-hugos-rss-feed/ in which I fix Hugo's feed template to have the entire article as well as a few other niceties.
Comment linking /posts/fixing-hugos-rss-feed/
on “Simple script to generate RSS feeds”Submitted Let's Ban SMS 2FA as a story · 38 points
HN discussionSidenote: your site's SCSS file 404s - https://lorendb.dev/css/main.scss (Firefox, macOS)
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on “A cartoon butt clenching a bar of soap has invaded my online ads”Submitted Maybe it is the year of the Linux desktop: on Elon Musk's support of Linux as a story · 12 points
HN discussionI've said it before, and I'll say it again: federal law should at least mandate that SMS 2FA cannot be a required option. With services like Paypal allowing you to reset your entire account authentication just by receiving an SMS message , I expect disastrous results. Alternately, we could just ban SMS 2FA outright. It may be an unpopular opinion, but I'm sticking to my guns on this one. https://lorendb.dev/posts/le…
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on “SIM swappers hijacking phone numbers in eSIM attacks”Submitted How to Reject a Feature Request as a story · 5 points
HN discussionGreat news, but I'm still waiting for PayPal and other financial institutions to get on the SMS-less bandwagon (details[0]). [0]: https://lorendb.dev/posts/lets-ban-sms-2fa/
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on “Google is changing how you set up 2FA”Submitted Let's Ban SMS 2FA as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lapce for C++ Development as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Grouphosting as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Shut Up and Take My Money as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Case for Custom Email Domains as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fixing VR's screen door effect with the new iPad as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The year of Linux on the desktop, and why we can't have nice things as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The year of Linux on the desktop, and why we can't have nice things as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a TUI system monitor with FINAL CUT as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Archiving Steam games for fun and profit as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Does Skylon have a place in the world of Starship? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a TUI system monitor with FINAL CUT as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Reject a Feature Request as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Grouphosting as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let's Ban SMS 2FA as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on KSP2 For Science! as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fixing VR's screen door effect with the new iPad as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Does Skylon have a place in Starship? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Matrix Codebrowser as a story · 1 points
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