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Remko Weijnen
Personal blog · remkoweijnen.nl/blogprogrammingsystems
Remko Weijnen writes Remko's Blog, a personal blog at remkoweijnen.nl about programming and systems. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Remko Weijnen's posts on technical topics, such as AES-NI benchmarks and switching SATA operation modes to boot Windows XP. The links are cited as related info or support.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Modern intel CPUs have AES-NI which accelerate AES-decoding: http://www.remkoweijnen.nl/blog/2011/03/11/aes-ni-benchmarks...
Comment linking /blog/2011/03/11/aes-ni-benchmarks/
on “How Tracking Down My Stolen Computer Triggered a Drug Bust”It's not bad crypto, it's an encoding scheme. It's even in the name! Citrix uses this to pass around credentials between disparate systems which might not be part of the same ActiveDirectory forest preventing the use of OS provided ticketing systems. The traffic carrying these credentials are encrypted with SSL, so you shouldn't be able to pull this in cleartext off the wire. It's obviously not a great system, but i…
Comment linking /blog/2013/03/19/scriptable-citrix-password-encoder/
on “Good fun with bad crypto”A helpful approach can be to manually put each target boot device on the Critical Device List with Start code 0, placing its vendor & device code permanently in the registry for whenever it is needed after that when you want to boot from that particular controller again later. Some related info: https://www.remkoweijnen.nl/blog/2011/06/18/switch-sata-oper...
Comment linking /blog/2011/06/18/switch-sata-operation-mode/
on “Booting Windows XP, or Not”