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Samy Kamkar on hacking, the MySpace worm, privacy, and his arrest [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td8Yf__kdqw
2•rorcodes•57m ago

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rorcodes•57m ago
I interviewed Samy about the MySpace worm, being approached by Epstein's team, reverse engineering games as a teenager, internet privacy, and building Openpath.

Some sections people here may find interesting:

07:54 — Counter-Strike cheats & game hacking

16:00 — Creating the Samy Worm

22:00 — Secret Service raid

31:00 — Manipulating Google Maps traffic

50:00 — Selling Openpath to Motorola

55:55 — Being contacted by Jeffrey Epstein

1:18:15 — Security in the vibe-coding era

The Nation-State Is a Legacy System. Time for an Upgrade

https://gccsproject.pages.dev/
1•pear01•45s ago•0 comments

Encrypted DNS in 2026: DoH, DoT and DoQ compared with real benchmarks

https://www.copahost.com/blog/encrypted-dns/
1•ggallas•1m ago•0 comments

The worst job interview I ever had

https://www.oliverio.dev/blog/the-worst-job-interview-i-had
1•oliverio•1m ago•0 comments

Being a 1.5-10x Developer

https://build.ms/2026/5/26/being-a-1-5-10x-developer/
1•mergesort•2m ago•0 comments

6M Fake GitHub Stars: How to Vet Open-Source AI Tools

https://www.chatgpt.ca/blog/github-fake-stars-ai-tool-evaluation
1•b-man•3m ago•0 comments

Mysteries of the Griffin iMate

https://www.projectgus.com/2023/04/griffin-imate/
1•geerlingguy•6m ago•0 comments

The Computer That Was Too Advanced for Its Own Good [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWPnEDXVTl8
3•devonnull•6m ago•0 comments

Optimization Constants in Mathematics

https://teorth.github.io/optimizationproblems/
1•bmc7505•12m ago•0 comments

GitHub Classroom sign-ups are no longer available

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-05-26-github-classroom-sign-ups-are-no-longer-available/
2•DropDead•14m ago•0 comments

Analyst on China's spent rocket stages: "Things only continue to get worse"

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/05/analyst-on-chinas-spent-rocket-stages-things-only-continue-...
3•xoa•15m ago•0 comments

Tracing libjxl decoding patterns, with JPEG XL as the trace data container

https://ender672.github.io/posts/2026-05-26-tracing-libjxl-decoding-patterns/
1•ender672•15m ago•0 comments

Why LLMs will be always Terrible at Software Architecture

https://devforth.io/insights/why-llms-will-be-always-terrible-at-software-architecture/
3•dotnot•15m ago•0 comments

Co-Invest – an MCP server that lets Claude and ChatGPT execute real trades

https://www.liquid.trade/coinvest
2•miwooyork•15m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How do you model temporarily invalid data structures

1•escot•17m ago•0 comments

Sinclair-O-Matic

https://dpt.github.io/SinclairLogo/
2•worik•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Privacy-first notification blocker for Android ad-free

https://permly.app
1•Zartof•19m ago•0 comments

Collection of free online tools for developers

https://webdevpack.com/
1•ivopetkov•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ARQ Dashboard – web and TUI monitoring for Python's ARQ job queue

https://github.com/srijanpatel/arq-dashboard
1•spps11•19m ago•0 comments

Startup is betting India's gig economy can train the robots

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/26/human-archive-taps-into-indias-services-startups-to-collect-dat...
1•methuselah_in•20m ago•0 comments

Jumping Spiders Seem to Dream

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2204754119
2•jyounker•21m ago•0 comments

Kubernetes in Anger

https://samof76.space/kubernetes-in-anger.html
2•sharjeelsayed•22m ago•0 comments

Why is Europe the fastest warming continent?

https://phys.org/news/2026-05-europe-world-fastest-continent.html
9•geox•24m ago•0 comments

Plowshares or nuclear explosions for the national economy

https://annasofialesiv.substack.com/p/plowshares
2•bilsbie•29m ago•0 comments

Stop Doing Easy Things

https://xendo.bearblog.dev/stop-doing-easy-things/
4•xendo•30m ago•0 comments

The Universe is a Sheet of Paper (and Some Sand)

https://t3db0t.substack.com/p/the-universe-is-a-sheet-of-paper
3•virgil_disgr4ce•32m ago•0 comments

DeepSWE: A contamination-free benchmark for long-horizon coding agents

https://deepswe.datacurve.ai/blog
4•ammar_x•32m ago•1 comments

DeepSWE Benchmark

https://deepswe.datacurve.ai/
2•xfax•35m ago•0 comments

Hedge Funds Are AImaxxing

https://www.ft.com/content/66fc88ec-af0d-452f-a535-193d9d5279f8
5•johnbarron•35m ago•0 comments

Fifty Years of Transaction Processing Research

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.20466
3•qianli_cs•36m ago•0 comments

Vibe Coding Escapades: pelican-copy-code plugin

https://blog.fidelramos.net/software/vibe-coding-escapades-pelican-copy-code
4•tripu•37m ago•0 comments