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Nemo's Home
Personal blog · captnemo.in/blog · on HN as captn3m0securityprogramming
Nemo's Home is a personal blog at captnemo.in about security and programming. Since 2012, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 77 times, most often “Show HN: Porting Super Hexagon to the Playdate”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, 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 for technical posts and data, such as a list of TLDs with A records. One commenter also includes the author's archive in a list of favourite developer blogs.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- /archive.html2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-09-02
- Show HN: Porting Super Hexagon to the Playdate2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-26
- List of TLDs with a a Record2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-06
- The game breaking Deal Breaker card2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-11
What Hacker News says?
A namecheap bug got my domain suspended: https://captnemo.in/blog/2026/05/05/namecheap-whois/ I'm planning to migrate out.
Comment linking /blog/2026/05/05/namecheap-whois/
on “Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains”Submitted Show HN: TLD Squatting as a story · 59 points
HN discussionhttps://captnemo.in/archive.html
Comment linking /archive.html
on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted Indian government sites are serving revoked eMudhra certificates as a story · 55 points
HN discussionI rolled back my really old iPad 2 to iOS 6 recently. Was fairly easy. As long as Apple is signing it, it just takes 3 clicks on iTunes. I wrote about my experience at https://captnemo.in/blog/2019/08/11/ipad-downgrade-ios-6-8/
Comment linking /blog/2019/08/11/ipad-downgrade-ios-6-8/
on “iPadOS”Submitted My Setup: Passwords, 2FA, and Yubikeys as a story · 7 points
HN discussionYes, I did a blog post when it happened: https://captnemo.in/blog/2018/06/02/google-tld-no-more-a-rec... . Google was pointing its TLDs to 127.0.0.53, and once they started using the TLDs actively, they removed the records.
Comment linking /blog/2018/06/02/google-tld-no-more-a-records/
on “I bought netflix.soy”Submitted A Bug Bounty on Homoeopathy as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThe battery swelled just after the end of first year, so I had to replace it. The replacement still gives me around 2-3 hrs depending on usage. This is the old Galago Pro (I reviewed it at [0]), not the new aluminium one. [0]: https://captnemo.in/blog/2014/07/04/galago-ultra-pro-review/
Comment linking /blog/2014/07/04/galago-ultra-pro-review/
on “System76 on US Manufacturing and Open Hardware”Submitted Medium abuses nofollow as a story · 6 points
HN discussionTLD's with A records AI AI http https 209.59.119.34 ARAB ARAB http https 127.0.53.53 BH BH http https 10.10.10.10,88.201.27.211 CM CM http https 195.24.205.60 CPA CPA http https 127.0.53.53 MUSIC MUSIC http https 127.0.53.53 PN PN http https 139.162.17.173 TK TK http https 217.119.57.22 UZ UZ http https 91.212.89.8 WS WS http https 64.70.19.33 Full list here: https://captnemo.in/tld-a-record/
Comment linking /tld-a-record/
on “.ai”Submitted Show HN: My Yubikey Setup with Pass as a story · 5 points
HN discussionJoel on Software - joelonsoftware.com Coding Horror - blog.codinghorror.com Schneier on Security - https://www.schneier.com/blog/ Things of Interest - qntm.org In Pursuit of Laziness - manishearth.github.io Still Drinking - stilldrinking.org Shallow Thoughts - http://shallowsky.com/blog/ Captain Nemo - https://captnemo.in/archive.html
Comment linking /archive.html
on “Ask HN: What are your favourite developer blogs?”Submitted My Setup: Passwords, 2FA, and Security Tidbits as a story · 4 points
HN discussion1. Learn to Ship 2. Read everything on this list: https://blog.codinghorror.com/recommended-reading-for-develo... 3. Learn to go down the stack. The best engineers I've worked with know their stack deep. I wrote a blog post on this once (targeted at recent graduates, should be helpful): https://captnemo.in/blog/2015/10/12/get-better-at-software-d... . The list on the blog post is: 1. Join a community. 2. Contribute…
Comment linking /blog/2015/10/12/get-better-at-software-development/
on “Ask HN: What topics/subjects are worth learning for a new software engineer?”Submitted Show HN: Porting Super Hexagon to the Playdate as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI love doing this, especially to liberate content that is locked away in a app-only world otherwise. That's one important usecase that I'd love more people to work on - it is a great way to start with reverse-engineering, and building simple websites. Pro-tip: If the undocumented API has a "CORS:*" header, you can call these APIs directly from the browser on your domain, without having to proxy them or using curl As…
Comment linking /plugo/
on “How to use undocumented web APIs”Submitted Package Managers need global hooks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI’m at https://captnemo.in The blog is mostly about Tech/Activism/Writing/Design. I also keep a page on /setup about what I use and /projects on what I build.
Comment linking /
on “Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)”Submitted A Namecheap bug got my domain suspended as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMozilla has published a DoH resolver policy[0], which should hopefully allow more resolvers to be added to the default list, and let Firefox pick as per latency. My personal resolver gives me better latency than both CF and Google, and I plan to get it added to the list[1]. [0]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/DOH-resolver-policy [1]: https://captnemo.in/dns/privacy/ , https://captnemo.in/doh/
Comment linking /doh/
on “Firefox Personal Data Promise”Submitted FOSS – Tracking delayed open-source releases as a story · 2 points
HN discussion- A OSS Mutual Funds API for India: https://mf.captnemo.in/ - A public dataset of a powerbank-on-rent provider in India: https://captnemo.in/plugo/ - OpenAPI specifications for some Indian companies: https://stoplight.captnemo.in/docs/simpl/ , https://stoplight.captnemo.in/docs/kuvera/ - Publicly updated dataset and release feed of edits to Indian Securities (ISINs): https://github.com/captn3m0/india-isin-data - Re-…
Comment linking /projects/
on “Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?”Submitted Amazon Order History Encryption Bypass as a story · 2 points
HN discussionGoogle is the biggest squatter. https://captnemo.in/tld-squatting/
Comment linking /tld-squatting/
on “How did .agakhan, .ismaili and .imamat get their own TLDs?”Submitted List of TLDs with a a Record as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis sounds weird. When CNBC broke the story a month back, I'd : 1. gone around deleting every invoice from my GMail inbox 2. Noticed it wasn't getting removed after waiting for 24 hours. 3. Reached out to the reporter mentioning google might be not deleting it properly. 4. Waiting a couple more days and calling off the alarm when google did finally delete it. I wrote about it at https://captnemo.in/blog/2019/06/01/…
Comment linking /blog/2019/06/01/cleaning-google-purchases/
on “Google Gmail purchase history can't be deleted”Submitted The Joy of Software Development [pdf] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI run a scan on these once every few months : https://captnemo.in/blog/2018/06/02/google-tld-no-more-a-rec...
Comment linking /blog/2018/06/02/google-tld-no-more-a-records/
on “Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters”Submitted Vulnerability Disclosure in Aadhaar as a story · 2 points
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