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Matt Stockton
Personal blog · mattstockton.com · on HN as mstocktonstartupsprogramming
Matt Stockton's personal blog at mattstockton.com covers startups and programming. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “My bank password is 'sort-of' hashed”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's posts on bank password rules, such as Fidelity accepting numeric keypad equivalents for letters, and on navigating GitHub connections with D3.js and Flask.
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.
Writing about software development, applied AI, and machine learning.
Most-linked posts?
- My bank password is 'sort-of' hashed2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-03-20
- /2012/11/30/navigating-your-network-graph-with-nodal/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-12-03
What Hacker News says?
A lot of the alternatives aren't much better. Fidelity for example would allow you to input your password as the numerical equivalent (think phone keypad - A, B or C map to "1" and so on). Which basically requires modifying your password before hashing it (and dramatically reducing entropy in the process). I'm not sure if they still do this. http://mattstockton.com/2013/03/20/my-bank-password-is-sort-... I think I r…
Comment linking /2013/03/20/my-bank-password-is-sort-of-hashed/
on “Robinhood Accounts Looted, No Customer Support”Submitted My bank password is 'sort-of' hashed as a story · 8 points
HN discussionThere is a screenshot at the end of this blog post: http://mattstockton.com/2012/11/30/navigating-your-network-g... Also, you do not need to link your account to try out Nodal, you can just search for a user on the login page.
Comment linking /2012/11/30/navigating-your-network-graph-with-nodal/
on “Show HN: Using D3.js to visually explore your GitHub connections”Submitted Why my crappy looking iPhone app made me over $10,000 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionWe got inspired by the work Mike Bostock has been doing with D3, but we wanted to extend it to more of an application interface setting than just charting. It's built on Python/Flask/Heroku. You can fork the project on GitHub here: https://github.com/MattStockton/nodal Or read more about it here: http://mattstockton.com/2012/11/30/navigating-your-network-g...
Comment linking /2012/11/30/navigating-your-network-graph-with-nodal/
on “Show HN: Using D3.js to visually explore your GitHub connections”Submitted Seeking affirmation of your product idea can be dangerous as a story · 2 points
HN discussionGroup Texting Pro ( https://itunes.apple.com/app/group-texting-pro/id377826384 ) I released it in June 2010 and have made over $10k after Apple's cut. My best month was just about $1k (Oct 2011) The download counts decreased significantly after the iOS6 / app discovery changes came out. The app is 6th when you search for 'Group Texting' -- I think not having the 'list view' search result really hurt the downloads. N…
Comment linking /2012/12/05/why-my-crappy-looking-iphone-app-made-me-over-10k/
on “Ask HN: What mobile app did you make and how much are you making from it?”Submitted Confusing what you're good at with what needs to be done as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Complexity Versus Value Trap as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted "I've Done This Before" as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Student of the Business Model Generation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reflections on reading 'business books' as an Engineer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nerd Blog on the Cheap with Jekyll and Heroku as a story · 1 points
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