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Washi
Personal blog · blog.washi.devprogrammingsecurity
Washi is a personal blog at blog.washi.dev about programming and security. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “How small is the smallest .NET Hello World binary?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Washi's TinySharp post in a thread on memory safety and thread safety, where it is cited for the claim that .NET has similar problems. The comments discuss F#, Go and Rust.
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.
A blog about my programming and reverse engineering adventures.
Most-linked posts?
- How small is the smallest .NET Hello World binary?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-09
What Hacker News says?
F# does that too. > .NET has similar problems s/has/had/ https://blog.washi.dev/posts/tinysharp/ The issue is that some people still fighting against the concepts ML family languages (primarily SML) introduced. Go implemented go routines and channels from CSP ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicating_sequential_proce... ) but dragged a lot on influence from C (understandable) into the language. I think Rust opte…
Comment linking /posts/tinysharp/
on “There is no memory safety without thread safety”Submitted How small is the smallest .NET Hello World binary? as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Custom Attributes in .NET Give Me Nightmares as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cilfi: Automatic Function Identification in .NET Binaries as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Addressing Common Misconceptions about .NET in the InfoSec World as a story · 1 points
HN discussion