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pboyd.io is a personal blog at pboyd.io about programming, career and systems. Since 2019, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “How Not to Store Passwords”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one comment, a July 2023 freelancer listing from a software engineer focused on Go web backends. It says nothing about the writing, so HN's reason for linking the site is unclear.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- How Not to Store Passwords5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-11-22
- What Is UDP?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-21
- At <company>, we are family2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-25
- An Experiment on Code Structure2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-11-06
- The Cargo Cult of Good Code2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-02
What Hacker News says?
SEEKING WORK | Raleigh, NC, US | Remote My name is Paul Boyd, I am a software engineer who has been building customer-facing products and backend software for over 15 years. My goal to deliver functional products that meet business needs and I am willing to use any tools that accomplish that. However, my strengths primarily lie in developing web backends, particularly in Go. Technologies: Go, Python, AWS, GCP, Docke…
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2023)”Submitted An Experiment on Code Structure as a story · 84 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Regex [,-.] as a story · 46 points
HN discussionSubmitted You're Not a 10x Programmer as a story · 38 points
HN discussionSubmitted The day I wiped a production database table as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Reluctant Sysadmin's Guide to Securing a Linux Server as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to avoid one C++ foot gun as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Not to Store Passwords as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Not to Store Passwords as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Redefining Go Functions as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is UDP? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is UDP? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Experiment on Code Structure as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted At this company, we are family as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Limits of Programmer Productivity: A lesson from Fred Brooks on development env as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted At <company>, we are family as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Back to Basics with the Apple II as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Cargo Cult of Good Code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Not to Store Passwords as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A simple case for unit tests as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Not to Store Passwords as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Reluctant Sysadmin's Guide to Securing a Linux Server as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Go Concurrency: Fan-Out, Fan-In as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Cargo Cult of Good Code as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Designing Good Interfaces as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Text Encoding: That Thing You Were Trying to Avoid as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Not to Store Passwords as a story · 1 points
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