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Pistachio Musings
Personal blog · shivankaul.com/blogsecurityprogramming
Pistachio Musings is a personal blog at shivankaul.com about security and programming. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Firefox browser has started shipping Brave's adblock-rust engine”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a post on Firefox bundling Brave's Rust-based ad-blocker, cited as a reference in a Firefox WebAssembly thread.
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.
Mostly harmless.
Most-linked posts?
- Firefox browser has started shipping Brave's adblock-rust engine3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-04-22
What Hacker News says?
They already bundle Brave’s rust-based ad-blocker: https://shivankaul.com/blog/firefox-bundles-adblock-rust
Comment linking /blog/firefox-bundles-adblock-rust
on “Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly”Submitted 'Clean your desk': My Amazon interview experience as a story · 911 points
HN discussionSubmitted Firefox browser has started shipping Brave's adblock-rust engine as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Firefox browser has started shipping Brave's adblock-rust engine as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zero-length arrays in C: A cautionary tale as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Yet Another Boingo HotSpot Loophole for Free Wi-Fi at Airports as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted My 1 TB Mac needed 8 TB to migrate, apparently as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Comet sends all your URLs to Perplexity servers and there's no way to stop it as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Browser-based consent – the case of WebRTC as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ethereum Scam on Brian Acton's #deletefacebook Tweet as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Rubber ducky, for when you need to think things through as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Brief intro to NFA, DFA and how they relate to regexes as a story · 1 points
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