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lwt hiker
Personal blog · lwthiker.com · on HN as lwthikersecurityprogramming
lwt hiker is a personal blog at lwthiker.com about security and programming. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for reverse-engineering write-ups, such as the motivation behind curl-impersonate, a curl build that mimics Firefox's TLS handshake. Only one bare link to the post appears in the comments.
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.
Random thoughts about software, hacking and other things.
What Hacker News says?
Motivation is in the blog post: https://lwthiker.com/reversing/2022/02/17/curl-impersonate-f...
Comment linking /reversing/2022/02/17/curl-impersonate-firefox.html
on “Show HN: Curl modified to impersonate Firefox and mimic its TLS handshake”Submitted Firefox appears to be flagged as suspicious by Cloudflare as a story · 337 points
HN discussionSubmitted Curl-impersonate now also supports Chrome fingerprint as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Analyzing a Stock Exchange's API as a story · 1 points
HN discussion