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Paraxial.io: Automated Security for Developers
Company blog · paraxial.io/blogsecurityprogramming
Paraxial.io: Automated Security for Developers is the company blog at paraxial.io, writing about security and programming. Since 2022, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Elixir Saves Pinterest $2M a Year in Server Costs”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Paraxial.io's post on an unauthenticated remote code execution flaw in Erlang/OTP SSH. The one comment cites it for advice on whether Elixir deployments are affected.
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.
Paraxial.io: Automated Security for Developers
Most-linked posts?
- Elixir Saves Pinterest $2M a Year in Server Costs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-28
- Elixir Solves a Difficult Security Problem2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-04
- What the Critical Erlang SSH Vulnerability Means for Elixir Developers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-04-17
What Hacker News says?
most Elixir deployments are probably unaffected (obviously, please please check to be sure), as SSH is turned off by default. https://paraxial.io/blog/erlang-ssh
Comment linking /blog/erlang-ssh
on “Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in Erlang/OTP SSH”Submitted Elixir Saves Pinterest $2M a Year in Server Costs as a story · 64 points
HN discussionSubmitted What the Critical Erlang SSH Vulnerability Means for Elixir Developers as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elixir Saves Pinterest $2M a Year in Server Costs as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ruby on Rails Security: Preventing Command Injection as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Security Best Practices for Deploying Rails 8 on Linux with Kamal as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Classifying Data Center IP Addresses in Phoenix Web Apps with Radix Trees as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Throttling and Blocking Bad Requests in Phoenix Web Applications with PlugAttack as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Testing a Phoenix app for credential stuffing with Elixir, Floki, and HTTPoison as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Security Vendor's AI Best Practices Labels Critical Elixir RCE Safe as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Securing Hex, the Backbone of the Elixir Ecosystem as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gem Shop: A Vulnerable Rails 8 App for Security Education as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elixir Is (Still) Safe as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exploit Guard: Open-Source Runtime Application Self Protection (Rasp) for Elixir as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elixir Solves a Difficult Security Problem as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elixir Solves a Difficult Security Problem as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Potion Shop – Open-Source Vulnerable Elixir/Phoenix App for Security Education as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elixir/Phoenix Security: Rate Limits for Authentication with Hammer as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
