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Paul Bellamy

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Paul Bellamy's personal blog at paulbellamy.com covers programming. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Livecomments.go - Tutorial in Go, backbone.js, socket.io, and redis”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.

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8mentions?
5HN people?
2011–2021first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this site for its vulnerability name generator, a playful tool that makes names for security vulnerabilities. The comments only point to it as a tool and do not judge any writing.

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?

  1. Livecomments.go - Tutorial in Go, backbone.js, socket.io, and redis
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-04-12

What Hacker News says?

  1. We need some sort of security vulnerability name generator. A google search later and of course it already exists, hahaha: https://paulbellamy.com/vulnerability-name-generator/

    Comment linking /vulnerability-name-generator/

    on “Hackers Hijacked Asus Software Updates to Install Backdoors”
  2. Submitted Livecomments.go - Tutorial in Go, backbone.js, socket.io, and redis as a story · 57 points

    HN discussion
  3. Depending on what your job role is, this last weekend probably sucked. But IMO it's also pretty typical that a few of these sorts of events happen every year. Reminder that this exists: https://paulbellamy.com/vulnerability-name-generator

    Comment linking /vulnerability-name-generator

    on “Ask HN: Are Cybersecurity Workers Ok?”
  4. Submitted Real-time blog comments in Go, backbone.js, socket.io, and redis as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Introducing Mango: Rack-Inspired Web Framework for Google Go as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Real-time blog comments in Go, backbone.js, socket.io and redis as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Random Vulnerability Name Generator as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Encrypted Container Secrets with Terraform and S3 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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