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Matt's Hacking Blog

Personal blog · baudehlo.wordpress.comprogrammingsecurity

Matt's Hacking Blog is a personal blog at baudehlo.wordpress.com about programming and security. Since 2011, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Setting up Perfect Forward Secrecy for Nginx or Stud”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-15, and you can follow it by feed.

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10mentions?
6HN people?
2011–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Matt's Hacking Blog for its post on Node.js speed, cited as evidence that Haraka is fast. Other comments share nginx SSL cipher configuration tips.

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.

Some ramblings from an old hack

Most-linked posts?

  1. Setting up Perfect Forward Secrecy for Nginx or Stud
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-06-24

What Hacker News says?

  1. brass9 · 2012-05-03
    Haraka is the node.js port of the famous perl smtpd called Qpsmtpd. Haraka is developed by the authors of qpsmtpd - and it seems pretty fast: http://baudehlo.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/node-js-is-fast/

    Comment linking /2011/09/13/node-js-is-fast/

    on “Inbox.py: SMTP for Humans”
  2. dandrewsen · 2012-12-30

    Submitted Web scraping with Node.js as a story · 34 points

    HN discussion
  3. skorgu · 2013-06-26
    For nginx 1.1.19-1ubuntu0.2 on Ubuntu 12.04 the following config line will get you that green 'yes' for perfect forward secrecy: ssl_ciphers ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:RC4:HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5:-LOW:-SSLv2:-EXP; You can test with a pair of terminals before you go bouncing your server (via [0]): openssl s_server -accept 8888 -cert mywebsite.com.pem -pass stdin -cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA <hit enter a few times>…

    Comment linking /2013/06/24/setting-up-perfect-forward-secrecy-for-nginx-or-stud/

    on “SSL Report: duckduckgo.com ”
  4. baudehlo · 2012-02-17

    Submitted Craigslist deploys Node.js based SMTP server as a story · 20 points

    HN discussion
  5. baudehlo · 2013-09-26
    Just don't disable SSL on your server. http://baudehlo.wordpress.com/2013/09/06/stripe-webhooks-don...

    Comment linking /2013/09/06/stripe-webhooks-dont-work-with-tls/

    on “Webhooks Are Magic”
  6. baudehlo · 2013-06-24

    Submitted Setting up Perfect Forward Secrecy for Nginx or Stud as a story · 19 points

    HN discussion
  7. baudehlo · 2013-06-24

    Submitted The 5 simple bits of sh/bash you should know as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. rgbrgb · 2013-09-04

    Submitted How an event loop works (in JS) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. baudehlo · 2013-06-26

    Submitted My experiment with StumbleUpon Paid Discovery as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. wmat · 2011-08-11

    Submitted Addressing the Latest Facebook Privacy Issue as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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