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the pepsi place
Personal blog · pepsipu.com/blog · on HN as pepsipusecurityhardware
the pepsi place is a personal blog at pepsipu.com about security and hardware. Since 2026, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Jailbreaking the Switch 2”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One commenter links a post from the blog while asking about iPhone hacks, so the linked writing covers a Switch 2 hack and related attack vectors. The comment does not judge the writing.
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?
- Jailbreaking the Switch 22 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-22
What Hacker News says?
Noob q: Does this(and most) hacks like this on the iphone likely rely on some kernel module — or what it talks to for executing code — being compromised to run arbitrary code execution? I dunno about ios but it seems from the videos that something that reads imessage attachments was compromised for privilege escalation. Like what im mean is an attack vector shaped similar to https://pepsipu.com/blog/2026-10-switch2-…
Comment linking /blog/2026-10-switch2-jailbreak-ns2jb/
on “Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone”Submitted Jailbreaking the Switch 2 as a story · 839 points
HN discussionSubmitted Load balancing usage across Codex accounts as a story · 4 points
HN discussion