Articles by alcazar
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The best time to post on Hacker News (alcazarsec.com)

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When will quantum computing break cryptography? (alcazarsec.com)

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GPT Image 2 vs. Nano Banana 2: what to use now (alcazarsec.com)

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How to Learn Programming in 2026 (alcazarsec.com)

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A look into Ente Locker's legacy feature (alcazarsec.com)

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Solo founders and indie hackers should have a backup plan (alcazarsec.com)

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Best VPNs in 2026 for privacy and security (alcazarsec.com)

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What does Palantir actually sell? (alcazarsec.com)

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A Technically-Fluent Bitcoiner's Inheritance Story (casa.io)

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Journalists, whistleblowers and activists should set a Dead Man's Switch (alcazarsec.com)

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Claude Mythos is the first model Anthropic didn't really release (alcazarsec.com)

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How time-lock puzzles work (alcazarsec.com)

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[flagged] The best tools for sending an email if you go silent (alcazarsec.com)

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AI-2027 forecasters move their timelines 1.5 years earlier (aifutures.org)

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The most secure phone today is a Google Pixel running GrapheneOS (alcazarsec.com)

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Alcazar Security: Dead man's switch and digital legacy (alcazarsec.com)

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Hermes vs. OpenClaw: what should you start with? (alcazarsec.com)

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AI progress and the Singularity: the case for 2027-2029 (alcazarsec.com)

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What Is a Wrench Attack? (alcazarsec.com)

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Fast and flexible observability with canonical log lines (2019) (stripe.com)

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What is a dead man's switch? (alcazarsec.com)

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What is the best agentic AI today? (alcazarsec.com)

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ElevenHacks: A season of 11 hackathons. Build with ElevenLabs and partners (elevenlabs.io)

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Dead man's switch vs. digital will: what each one is for (alcazarsec.com)

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Ask HN: How do you keep up with replies to your posts/comments?

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Portable Secret lets you encrypt text and files into a single HTML file (github.com/alcazarsec)

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Wide logging: Stripe's canonical log line pattern (alcazarsec.com)

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Hacker News digest: why Top HN focuses on the comments (alcazarsec.com)

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Whisper is no longer the whole answer: how to transcribe audio and video in 2026 (alcazarsec.com)

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Everything's Casino (joanwestenberg.com)

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Self-Driving Corporations (2020) (interconnected.org)

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Sharing encrypted files in a single HTML file (alcazarsec.com)

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If a web server runs websites then a corporation server? (2025) (interconnected.org)

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Building a Hacker News digest around discussion, not headlines (alcazarsec.com)

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Technocapital (2025) (grantslatton.com)

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Dead man's switches: how they work and when to use one (alcazarsec.com)

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Portable Secret is now open source (alcazarsec.com)

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Anthropic and The Pentagon (schneier.com)

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Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs (github.com/jetify-com)

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Fast realtime updates without WebSockets (alcazarsec.com)

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Top HN: Daily summary of the top Hacker News stories (alcazarsec.com)

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The six dumbest ideas in computer security (2005) (ranum.com)

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Designing the Perfect ID: Marrying UUIDv7, Stripe Prefixes, and ULID (alcazarsec.com)

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Hetzner outage: FSN1 is down (hetzner.com)

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How to Securely Erase an Old Hard Drive on macOS Tahoe (jeffgeerling.com)

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Reasons to get a dead man's switch (alcazarsec.com)

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Bytewords – encoding bytes as one of 256 four-letter English words (blockchaincommons.com)

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Show HN: Portable Secret – Open-Source HTML files that self-decrypt offline (alcazarsec.github.io)

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Hetzner outage - UDP forwarding affected (statusgator.com)

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Show HN: Anonymous Dead Man's Switch (alcazarsec.com)

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When we say "security", what do we mean? (2023) (kellyshortridge.com)

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Portable Secret: End-to-End Encrypted Files in One HTML (alcazarsec.com)

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Known Physical Bitcoin Attacks (github.com/jlopp)