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Milo Trujillo

Personal blog · backdrifting.net/postsecurityai

Milo Trujillo writes Backdrifting, a personal blog at backdrifting.net about security and ai. Since 2021, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Halftone QR Codes”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-29, and you can follow it by feed.

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5mentions?
5HN people?
2021–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2023

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked in one HN thread about an open-sourced QR code designer. The commenter points to a write-up on halftone QR codes, which the blog covers, with a JavaScript implementation.

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.

Backdrifting: An intersection of social system design, cybernetics, and hacking

Most-linked posts?

  1. Halftone QR Codes
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-31

What Hacker News says?

  1. Nice! I also found a quick write-up - with a link to a js implementation: https://backdrifting.net/post/016_halftone_qr https://github.com/fangj/Halftone-QRCode-Generator

    Comment linking /post/016_halftone_qr

    on “Show HN: I open sourced the QR designer from my failed startup”
  2. Submitted Torrent Health Monitoring as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Hosting Under Duress as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Halftone QR Codes as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted How Does Model Collapse Work? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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