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Valentin Hinov
Personal blog · valcanbuild.techprogrammingstartups
Valentin Hinov's personal blog at valcanbuild.tech covers programming and startups. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “How I learned about corporate firewalls”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked post covers handling corporate firewalls. HN readers mostly mention it because a commenter's corporate firewall blocked it under the Shareware Download category, which they found ironic.
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.
Coding, bootstrapping, indie-hacking. I blog about all or some of these.
Most-linked posts?
- How I learned about corporate firewalls2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-04
What Hacker News says?
> Sorry, you don't have permission to visit this site. > Website blocked > Not allowed to browse Shareware Download category > You tried to visit: https://www.valcanbuild.tech/handling-corporate-firewalls/ The irony.
Comment linking /handling-corporate-firewalls/
on “How I learned about corporate firewalls”Submitted How I learned about corporate firewalls as a story · 139 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adapt or die – the aftermath of losing $3000 to card fraud as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Track only when it makes sense – how I conditionally include Adwords tracking as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted I want to write code everyday, but as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Control your Credits – how I use S3 to keep my Cloudinary costs low as a story · 1 points
HN discussion