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Nex's Blog
Personal blog · nexy.blogsecurityprogramming
Nex's Blog is a personal blog at nexy.blog about security and programming. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The post describes hacking a washing machine and decrypting its data with CyberChef. The one comment reports a broken image link in the post and does not judge the writing itself.
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.
I ran out of characters for microblogging so this is where the big words go
What Hacker News says?
Image link after "For now, I plugged this key into CyberChef, and was able to decrypt the data." is broken. Specifically this element: <a href=" https://nexy.blog/2025/07/27/how-i-hacked-my-washing-machine... " class="hoverZoomLink"><img alt="CyberChef decrypting the washing machine's response" src=" https://nexy.blog/0006-How-I-hacked-my-washing-machine/cyber...
Comment linking /0006-How-I-hacked-my-washing-machine/cyberchef-2-small.avif%22></a>
on “I hacked my washing machine”Submitted I hacked my washing machine as a story · 371 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cloudflare's Matrix server isn't an earnest project as a story · 2 points
HN discussion
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