Horible public key tricks
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- Points190
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–Rank now
#9Peak rank
1Days on list
154Score · 7d
Nov 10, 2026First seen
Rank · 7 days
On Hacker News
- Points
- 190
- Comments
- 61
- Submitted by
- Curiositry
- Posted
- Nov 10, 2026
- Site
- maurycyz.com
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Trending history
Horible public key tricks was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Nov 10, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 61 checks on 1 different day. Its best position was #9 of 30, reached on Nov 10, 14:39 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 10, 16:09 UTC. The same link also trended on Lobsters, which raises its cross-platform score.
Rank history
Position on Hacker News · Front page at every check (lower is better).
Last 14 days
Best rank per day (UTC).
9
Oct 28today
Metric history
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Where it trended
| List | Best | Days | Checks | Last seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hacker News · Front page | #9 | 1 | 61 | |
| LLobsters · Hottest Horible public key tricks | same link | |||
From the discussion
A few top-level comments from Hacker News, shortened. Read the full thread on Hacker News.
Previously, Stupid Certificate Tricks (2014): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9516824 This is almost certainly an independent discovery/implementation of the same idea, there's really only one sensible way to do it. There are, of course, several non-sensible ways to do it as well, but...
The linked pdf at https://tom7.org/httpv/httpv.pdf is extremely long but a great read if you enjoyed the article.
All serious attackers are man-in-the-middle attackers (usually by tricking victims into diverting their own traffic, not literally by inserting themselves into the network path). Passive-only attackers went extinct along with the backbone-connected Sun servers that were used to launch those attacks. I don't so much…
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Questions
Is Horible public key tricks trending on Hacker News right now?
Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Nov 10, 16:09 UTC, after 1 day of trending.
What is the highest rank Horible public key tricks reached?
#9 on Hacker News · Front page, on Nov 10, 14:39 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.
How long has Horible public key tricks been trending?
It was first seen on Nov 10, 2026 and has been on the list on 1 day (61 checks) since.
How much discussion did it get on Hacker News?
190 points and 61 comments; submitted by Curiositry on Nov 10, 2026.