A recap of HackDay at Disqus featuring projects such as virtual reality moderation, a mobile publisher app, and more.
Hacker, Hack Thyself
We’ve read so many sad stories about communities that were fatally compromised or destroyed due to security exploits. We took that lesson to heart when we founded the Discourse project; we endeavor to build open source software that is secure and safe for communities by default, even if there
Speaking with Machines (virtual hackathon) · Luma
One rule - don't build UIs. Date: Saturday June 21, 2025 Location: Completely virtual - join from anywhere Timing: 8 hour hackathon with kick off at 8am…
Hacker News: Honest Edition
Vancouver Hack Day - April 2024 · Luma
A one day event to learn about new-to-you tech, spend some time coding, and sharing what you've learned, hacked, or built during the day. We'll start the day…
Here are some of the best and most interesting ideas from The Guardian’s comments-focused hack day
The Guardian is trying to hack its way into better comments. Since yesterday, The Guardian has assembled its developers and product managers for another one of its two-day hack events, which it holds every three to six months. This time around, it's focusing its efforts on comments and figuring …
The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News
Can a human touch make Silicon Valley’s biggest discussion forum a more thoughtful place?
Hacking the Hackathon
At their best, internal hackathons provide a necessary patch to systemic problems. But their usual structure limits their potential.
The most powerful ways to "hack" our new Dia browser
Rust and the Future of Systems Programming – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
If you’re a regular reader of Hacks, you probably know about Rust, the ground-breaking, community-driven systems programming language sponsored by Mozilla. I covered Rust on Hacks back in July, to ...
The-Art-of-Hacking/h4cker
This repository is maintained by Omar Santos (@santosomar) and includes thousands of resources related to ethical hacking, bug bounties, digital forensics and incident response (DFIR), AI security, vulnerability research, exploit development, reverse engineering, and more. 🔥 Also check: https://hackertraining.org
Study Hacks - Decoding Patterns of Success - Cal Newport
The Study Hacks blog by author and professor Cal Newport - on deep work, success, productivity, work-life balance.
AI’s Hacking Skills Are Approaching an ‘Inflection Point’
AI models are getting so good at finding vulnerabilities that some experts say the tech industry might need to rethink how software is built.
The hacker crackdown: law and disorder on the electronic frontier
A journalist investigates the past, present, and future…
+KAOS: Ten Years of Hacking and Media Activism
At the end of the 20th century, hacking was bleeding edge. When the ideas, practices and pranks of this experimental niche of technophiles attracted the attention of a handful of activists in Italy, they understood that information and communication were what would give shape and voice to social, political, and cultural processes in the near future. +KAOS is a cut and paste of interviews, like a documentary film transposed on paper. It describes the peculiar relationship between hacktivism and activism, in Italy and beyond, highlighting the importance of maintaining digital infrastructures. While this may not sound as glamorous as sneaking into a server and leaking data, it is a fundamental topic: not even the most emblematic group of hacktivists can operate without the services of radical server collectives. Autistici/Inventati (https://www.autistici.org - https://www.inventati.org)
I would agree that this Doctorow post not good. This paragraph in particular irks me. I think that a "database of earlier hacking challenges" implies plainly false things about what happened, like that the attack vector was not novel (a previously unknown-by-any-person vulnerability was exploited)
Will Stancil
No. This Cory Doctorow post is awful and borders on actual misinformation. The fact that a widely respected voice like him is spreading this kind of false narrative is, again, a giant blaring alarm about the effect the Bluesky info environment is having on people’s brains.
