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mikhailian.mova.org is a personal blog at mikhailian.mova.org about security, programming and politics. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 35 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread about attacks on the author's website. The one comment suggests blocking the attackers with ipset, which it calls hash based and efficient, and links the post.
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.
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What Hacker News says?
It's slightly more complicated to host your own git server on a generic linux box, because of file permissions. I wrote a HOWTO a few weeks ago: http://mikhailian.mova.org/node/305
Comment linking /node/305
on “You already have a Git server”Submitted What have we forgotten? as a story · 98 points
HN discussionSee also The Worst Kind of Programmer [1] which talks about how detrimental the work of high performers often is. [1] http://mikhailian.mova.org/node/284
Comment linking /node/284
on ““Normal” engineers are the key to great teams”Submitted The worst kind of programmer as a story · 79 points
HN discussionTry this git hosting, for a change: https://mikhailian.mova.org/posts/305-looking-for-a-european...
Comment linking /posts/305-looking-for-a-european-alternative-to-github-look-no-further-than-git-itself.html
on “Git hosting that never leaves Europe”Submitted 2FA or Not 2FA as a story · 74 points
HN discussionYou can use ipset to block them. It's hash based and efficient. http://ipset.netfilter.org/ http://mikhailian.mova.org/node/194
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on “Analyzing the attacks on my website”Submitted Belgian politicians would rather risk treason charges than trust engineers as a story · 13 points
HN discussionCheck this out also: http://mikhailian.mova.org/node/295 CCB does some strange things indeed.
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on “Belgium Is Unsafe for CVD”Submitted (nossl) What do Ursula von der Leyen and Putin have in common? as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK | Remote or Belgium | http://mikhailian.mova.org 20+ years of career, last few years designing and writing Spring Boot applications and deploying them with Spring Cloud or Kubernetes on AWS because it pays well. Wrote code in Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Ruby-on-Rails, Drupal (PHP) and even Lua. Did Angular on the front-end, but could only master Vue.js. Over the years, changed several professions: Corpus Li…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2022)”Submitted PHP Must Die as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThanks for the detailed explanation. I attempted something similar for Belgium here: http://mikhailian.mova.org/node/297 While federal government in Belgium is slightly less dependent on US clouds, Digital Vlaanderen is pretty much in bed with Microsoft on all levels.
Comment linking /node/297
on “Parliament tells Dutch government to keep DigiD data out of American hands”Submitted PHP Is King as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI can't share all of it, but to understand the relationship between SPF, DKIM and DMARC one should know that it covers two possible cases. Either DKIM domain must match From: domain OR MAIL FROM domain must match the From: domain, the IP address of the sender should pass the SPF check https://mikhailian.mova.org/delivering-mails/1.png shows the SMTP plaintext chat for the first case, https://mikhailian.mova.org/deli…
Comment linking /delivering-mails/2.png
on “What DMARC Protects You From, and What It Does Not”Submitted The imminent death of HTTP/1.1 and its risks are not understood as a story · 4 points
HN discussionGit. Move your platform to git. See here for a howto: https://mikhailian.mova.org/posts/305-looking-for-a-european...
Comment linking /posts/305-looking-for-a-european-alternative-to-github-look-no-further-than-git-itself.html
on “Ask HN: Due to spam on GitHub, what platforms can I move my projects?”Submitted There will be no "European Cloud" as you understand it as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted 2FA or Not 2FA as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reducing the codebase by an order of magnitude is possible. I've done it twice. as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Our politicians fear engineers so much that they risk high treason charges as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Looking for a European alternative to GitHub? Look no further than Git as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted [nossl] Loss of Digital Sovereignty via Multi-Factor Authentication as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Curvy Cucumber of DNS4EU and How to Do It Right Next Time as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The pointless churn of SHA1 deprecation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Actionable Security is Missing on the EU Horizon as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Looking for a European alternative to GitHub? Look no further than Git itself as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Forget Gmail filters, let Google sort your inbox using Machine Learning as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 2FA is dead, it just doesn't know it yet as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Belgian politicians would rather risk treason charges than trust engineers as a story · 1 points
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