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Max McDonnell
Personal blog · maxmcd.com/posts · on HN as maxmcdprogrammingweb
Max McDonnell's personal blog at maxmcd.com covers programming and web. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Guess Mark Burnett's Password(s)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-02-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post about releasing ten million passwords, a dataset of leaked passwords, and a related passwords page. One commenter flags an error in the post's share figure.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Guess Mark Burnett's Password(s)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-02-10
What Hacker News says?
You forgot a zero: >>> (55893+20785+13582+13230+11696+10938+6432+5682+4796+4191+3845+3734+3664+3655+3330+3206+3136+3126+3050+3002) / 1e7 0.0180973 That is, 1.8%. This is confirmed by http://maxmcd.com/passwords.html .
Comment linking /passwords.html
on “I Am Releasing Ten Million Passwords”Submitted Show HN: Bramble – A Purely Functional Build System and Package Manager as a story · 5 points
HN discussionHere's a better alternative with almost identical physics to the original game: http://maxmcd.com/fb
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on “I've made an open source flappy bird clone”Submitted AI Is Not Other People as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Guess Mark Burnett's Password(s) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running Go on Val Town as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted HTTP3, 2, 1 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Flappy Bird In HTML 5 as a story · 1 points
HN discussion