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Daniel Miessler
Personal blog · danielmiessler.com/blog · on HN as danielrm26securityai
Daniel Miessler's personal blog at danielmiessler.com covers security and ai. Since 2009, 243 different Hacker News readers have linked it 798 times, most often “Learn Vim for the Last Time: A Tutorial and Primer”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Sometimes recommended · 13 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Miessler mainly for his Vim and tmux tutorials ("Learn vim For the Last Time"), and for infosec career and newsletter advice. Commenters also cite his AMP critique and RSS/YouTube feed tips.
- Recommended for · 13 comments
- The Vim tutorial is recommended as the way to learn vim, treating it as a text-manipulation language. Other comments recommend the infosec career guide and news
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
SECURITY | AI | PURPOSE :: Using AI to move people from current state to ideal state. Cybersecurity and AI engineer, founder, writer, and creator based in San Francisco.
Most-linked posts?
- Learn Vim for the Last Time: A Tutorial and Primer12 people · 19 mentions · first linked 2015-01-13
- Building a Successful Information Security Career (2008)8 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2016-12-20
- URLs vs. URIs6 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2017-01-25
- Google AMP Is Not a Good Thing6 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2017-10-12
- A tcpdump Primer with Examples5 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2015-01-14
- A Tcpdump Tutorial and Primer4 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2009-07-19
- The Reason Software Remains Insecure4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-03-12
- A Collection of Tutorials4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-10-14
- A tmux Primer4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-01-26
- The Problem with the Job Market4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-08-26
What Hacker News says?
My opinion of what we should do with Snowden. Not quite a pardon, but almost. https://danielmiessler.com/blog/what-us-should-do-edward-sno...
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on “Pardon Snowden”Submitted It’s Time to Get Back to RSS as a story · 798 points
HN discussionThe reason this works is because it uses Evolution Thinking vs. Design Thinking to find good people, which we need more of in tech. https://danielmiessler.com/blog/why-you-should-hire-using-ev...
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on “A Method I’ve Used to Eliminate Bad Tech Hires”Submitted Moving your SSH port isn’t security by obscurity as a story · 431 points
HN discussionChanging SSH port is far more efficacious at reducing nonsense than the Twitter poll in the article suggests: > "I ran an experiment with a virtual machine exposed to the internet which had sshd listening on port 22. The server stayed online for one week and then I changed the ssh port to 222. The number of attacks dropped by 98%. Even though this is solely empirical evidence, it’s clear that moving off the standard…
Comment linking /blog/security-and-obscurity-does-changing-your-ssh-port-lower-your-risk/
on “Security by obscurity is underrated”Submitted Google AMP Is Not a Good Thing as a story · 423 points
HN discussionSpecifically on InfoSec, I would recommend: Krebs on Security https://krebsonsecurity.com Daniel Miessler https://danielmiessler.com/blog
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on “Ask HN: What are some good technology blogs to follow?”Submitted Obscurity Is a Valid Security Layer as a story · 301 points
HN discussionRight! I was curious about how they do it and found out that Youtube actually has RSS feeds! At least according to this and a few other pages I've found https://danielmiessler.com/blog/rss-feed-youtube-channel/ Also, I can see that for other services like Twitter, there are indeed third party providers that can create feeds https://rss.app/blog/how-to-create-twitter-rss-feeds Also Reddit subreddits and users: https:…
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on “Apps Getting Worse”Submitted Why Putting SSH On Another Port is a Good Idea as a story · 293 points
HN discussionIt doesn't matter how much other people care. It is that you want to have an informed opinion - for yourself. If I make an opinion prematurely I see myself defend it while familiarizing myself with the topic. I go blind to what contradicts it and remember only what fits my preconceived ideas. This is why I try to avoid it. Perhaps other people (you) are able to suspend their uninformed opinion but I highly doubt it.…
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on “It’s Time to Get Back to RSS”Submitted Google is getting left behind due to horrible UI/UX as a story · 271 points
HN discussionYou don't even need a fake ID. If you want a way to 'subscribe' to channels you can just use their RSS feed. All youtube channels have RSS feeds https://danielmiessler.com/blog/rss-feed-youtube-channel/ https://gist.github.com/tjluoma/fdbc63ceb78a2aecd3d638fd18b6...
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on “No More Google”Submitted To Master Vim, Use It Like Language as a story · 250 points
HN discussionI submit my Vim Primer for your consideration. https://danielmiessler.com/study/vim/ Going to download and see what Prezto stuff breaks when I upgrade.
Comment linking /study/vim/
on “Vim 8.0 released”Submitted A tcpdump tutorial and primer as a story · 194 points
HN discussionhttps://danielmiessler.com/study/tmux/
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on “Benefits of using tmux – streamlining your development environment”Submitted Less Commonly Used Unix Commands as a story · 188 points
HN discussionHere's my primer for anyone interested: https://danielmiessler.com/study/tcpdump/
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on “Tcpdump is amazing”Submitted I'm worried it might get bad as a story · 178 points
HN discussionAlso, d: delete c: change y: yank (copy) v: visually select (V for line vs. character) It's also why I added the -ish to my comment (editors can be very polarising), but I feel many of vim's basic editing features are very intuitive Edit: https://danielmiessler.com/study/vim/ It's where I learned the command meanings and started to understand vim in a more intuitive manner
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on “Vim GIFs”Submitted An lsof Primer as a story · 169 points
HN discussionL is locator, I is identifier. URLs are a subset of URIs. Both start with a schema (something:...), but URIs lack the information about the location and way to get at a resource. The canonical example for identifier-but-not-location is an ISBN or DOI. That interpretation however requires a very peculiar interpretation of "location", because imho "where can I read about that" can precisely be answered by "ISBN ...".…
Comment linking /study/difference-between-uri-url/
on “Any claim without a URI should be treated as suspicious”Submitted Obscurity Is a Valid Security Layer as a story · 141 points
HN discussionMany of them will be lost when editing something in vim on a completely clean remote server or anything other... Like how to explore files without NERDTree? You can learn basic Vim commands in 30min with vimtutor. One thing to keep in mind is this: https://danielmiessler.com/study/vim/#language and this https://www.vi-improved.org/recommendations/
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on “Tmux and Vim – better together”Submitted A tcpdump Tutorial and Primer as a story · 141 points
HN discussionFor people who use extensions or browsers that block third party JS, AMP pages will take many seconds to load in non-mobile Web browsers. Here is information about some of the other problems with AMP: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/19/open_source_insider... https://danielmiessler.com/blog/google-amp-not-good-thing/ https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/ampersand/ https://css-tricks.com/need-catch-amp-debate/ https:…
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on “Exploding Git Repositories”Submitted DNS servers that offer privacy and filtering as a story · 125 points
HN discussion> How has the web been tainted with ads? * https://www.superhighway98.com/seo * http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-31-ads-as-cancer.html * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04 * https://voxeu.org/article/advertising-major-source-human-dis... * https://www.forbrukerradet.no/side/new-study-the-advertising... * https://danielmiessler.com/blog/google-amp-not-good-thing/ * https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/1…
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on “PWA Store”Submitted Hacker News Coverage of the NSA Stories (IMG) as a story · 109 points
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