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Pete Freitag
Personal blog · petefreitag.comprogrammingwebsecurity
Pete Freitag's personal blog at petefreitag.com covers programming, web and security. Since 2007, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Pete Freitag's blog as a reference on RSS feed autodiscovery, the way browsers and sites expose feeds. Other comments mention the blog only in passing, citing it as a source.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Pete Freitag is a developer and consultant focused on ColdFusion, Java, and Web Application Security
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/rss-autodiscovery/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-18
What Hacker News says?
> Far too many people, including developers, seem to just accept upgrades as always-good instead of carefully considering the risks and benefits. Another example of this was log4j: if you were still using the old 1.x log4j versions, you wouldn't have been vulnerable to the log4shell vulnerability, since it was introduced early in the 2.x series. The old 1.x log4j versions had other known vulnerabilities, but only if…
Comment linking /blog/log4j-1x-mitigation/
on “Timeline of the xz open source attack”Submitted DNS over HTTPS is not what I thought as a story · 87 points
HN discussionI thought it was an interesting post, so I tried to add Railway's blog to my RSS reader... but it didn't work. I tried searching the page source for RSS and also found nothing. Eventually, I noticed the RSS icon in the top right, but it's some kind of special button that I can't right click and copy the link from, and Safari prevents me from knowing what the URL is... so I had to open that from Firefox to find it. C…
Comment linking /blog/rss-autodiscovery/
on “So you want to build your own data center”Submitted How I Cut AWS Lambda Java Cold Start Times in Half as a story · 19 points
HN discussionthe author (either of the blog or its software) would do well to consult https://www.petefreitag.com/blog/rss-autodiscovery/
Comment linking /blog/rss-autodiscovery/
on “Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI”Submitted 20 ways to Secure your Apache Configuration as a story · 4 points
HN discussionA sibling comment mentions the reload4j project, so clearly someone thought that 1.x wasn't adequate to a degree of creating a new project around maintaining a fork. Can't speak of the project itself, merely the fact that its existence supports the idea that EOL software is something that people would prefer to avoid, even if they decide to maintain a backwards compatible fork themselves, which is great to see. Here…
Comment linking /item/926.cfm
on “Psychic Signatures in Java”Submitted The Newline Cat Mystery as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNo, it was this team: http://www.petefreitag.com/images/blog/delicious_office.jpg
Comment linking /images/blog/delicious_office.jpg
on “What’s Next for Delicious?”Submitted Del.icio.us Office [photo] as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIdeally, del.icio.us would come with this team of people: http://www.petefreitag.com/images/blog/delicious_office.jpg
Comment linking /images/blog/delicious_office.jpg
on “What’s Next for Delicious?”Submitted Fixinator Fixes Unscoped Variables as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSame. Remember these guys hacking away in an office in the early days of lawn chair-era del.icio.us? https://www.petefreitag.com/images/blog/delicious_office.jpg
Comment linking /images/blog/delicious_office.jpg
on “Pinboard vs. Raindrop”Submitted Pete Freitag: How to Read a ColdFusion Stacktrace as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThat story is also one of my faves. del.icio.us was a "lean startup" before that phrase became a social media mantra: http://www.petefreitag.com/images/blog/delicious_office.jpg
Comment linking /images/blog/delicious_office.jpg
on “ Delicious Founder Joshua Schachter Leaves Google ”Submitted What Is the Difference Between ASCII Chr(10) and Chr(13) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt's because the RSS community never figured out standard, easy ways for users to: 1) Find new feeds 2) Subscribe to feeds They got close on #2 with the addition of feed autodiscovery ( http://www.petefreitag.com/item/384.cfm ) as a built-in feature of browsers, but the UX never got polished enough to make it a single-click thing, and eventually the browser vendors decided it wasn't being used enough and phased it b…
Comment linking /item/384.cfm
on “The Future of Planet Mozilla”del.icio.us was very inspirational to me. It was the lean startup before there were lean startups, when everyone was still swirling around in Aeron chairs: http://www.petefreitag.com/images/blog/delicious_office.jpg
Comment linking /images/blog/delicious_office.jpg
on “Frenzy As Delicious Founder Joshua Schachter Raises Round For New Startup”Compare this office photo: http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/09/12/business/delici... To this office photo: http://www.petefreitag.com/images/blog/delicious_office.jpg Everything old is new again.
Comment linking /images/blog/delicious_office.jpg
on “YouTube Founders Revamping a Site for Link Sharing”Hardly a new phenomenon, even in Web 2.0. del.icio.us, to take one example, operated lean like this for years. Think plastic lawn chairs: http://www.petefreitag.com/images/blog/delicious_office.jpg
Comment linking /images/blog/delicious_office.jpg
on “Bedroom Startups”
