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sambent.com is a personal blog at sambent.com about security and politics. Since 2025, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification into Linux”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on government apps, a White House app decompile, an I2P botnet incident and European tech alternatives. Commenters are split on the site's writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification into Linux4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-03-21
- Fedware: Government Apps That Spy Harder Than the Apps They Ban2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-30
- Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-23
- Proton Meet Isn't What They Told You It Was2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-03
What Hacker News says?
Yeah, this site has been posted a few times recently, and there is something just very odd about the site design and the writing. For example, this post seems unhinged at best: https://www.sambent.com/the-engineer-who-tried-to-put-age-ve...
Comment linking /the-engineer-who-tried-to-put-age-verification-into-linux-5/
on “Fedware: Government Apps That Spy Harder Than the Apps They Ban”Submitted Fedware: Government Apps That Spy Harder Than the Apps They Ban as a story · 6 points
HN discussionWell, I will argue that you are incorrect and do one better and ask why a Huawei SDK [0] is embedded in the app beyond the location tracking? [0] https://www.sambent.com/the-white-house-app-has-huawei-spywa...
Comment linking /the-white-house-app-has-huawei-spyware-and-an-ice-tip-line/
on “I decompiled the White House's new app”Submitted Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis seems to be a better post about what happened, from the same site https://www.sambent.com/i2p-2-11-0-ships-post-quantum-crypto...
Comment linking /i2p-2-11-0-ships-post-quantum-crypto-after-botnet-siege/
on “A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P”Submitted Apple Obeyed Russia and Britain in the Same Week as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHome page boldly claims: EuRopE dOeS iT BeTtEr. There is literally a story trending on HN right now: Proton built Proton Meet to escape the CLOUD Act. They built it on CLOUD Act infrastructure. Their website promises "not even government agencies" can access your calls. The company routing them hands your call records to the government when asked. Proton hid them from their privacy policy. This superiority complex n…
Comment linking /proton-meet-isnt-what-they-told-you/
on “Show HN: European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps”Submitted The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification into Linux as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Proton Meet Isn't What They Told You It Was as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tor Ditches C for Rust and Your Privacy Benefits as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Klode has been systematically stripping features from GRUB since 2021 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification into Linux as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Who Tried to Put Age Verification into Linux (and Why?) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted HugBunter Deleted: Reddit Erases Dread Forum Administrator as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Build Privacy Tools, Go to Prison, Samourai Developers Change Pleas as a story · 1 points
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