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Robin Verton

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Robin Verton writes robin verton, a personal blog at robinverton.de about security and programming. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Be careful when going client-only (Firebase)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-02, and you can follow it by feed.

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4mentions?
3HN people?
2013–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The linked blog post describes the technology behind PenTrack.io, a tool for tracking web penetration tests, including its use of Go and AngularJS. The only comment is the author's own.

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?

  1. Be careful when going client-only (Firebase)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-08-27

What Hacker News says?

  1. Author here. I also wrote a small blog post with some details about the technology behind (Go, AngularJS, ...) for those of you who are interested: http://robinverton.de/blog/2014/08/04/announcing-pentrack-io...

    Comment linking /blog/2014/08/04/announcing-pentrack-io/

    on “Show HN: PenTrack.io – Track your web penetration test”
  2. Submitted Be careful when going client-only (Firebase) as a story · 63 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Improved Validation with Generics in Go as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Be careful when going client-only (Firebase)[2013] as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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