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arzel··on I hacked Gumroad’s API and broke a bunch of tools
Only paid out a $500 bounty..? Wow.
arzel··on Japanese Manga are being eclipsed by Korean webtoons
highly recommend new readers check out ‘The Beginning After The End’ or ‘Solo Leveling’
arzel··on NPM security update: Attack campaign using stolen OAuth tokens
What were* the passwords hashed with?
arzel··on Ask HN: Career change for elderly UK ex-convict?
What are your contact details? We are hiring.
arzel··on Pangolin UI, a Desktop Shell, Written in Flutter, for Linux and Zircona
Extremely smooth on Mac M1. Very cool.
arzel··on Descript – A collaborative audio/video editor that works like a doc
Deserves to be on the front page. This is crazy fire.
arzel··on Sizzy – The Browser for Developers
They moved it to the console under a gear icon.
arzel··on Remote Code Execution in Slack desktop apps
agreed on 5 figures. evidence? there’s even clearnet websites where you can buy vulns. most known would be: https://0day.today
arzel··on Source Code Obfuscation Patterns
Check out Procyon's[1] java decompiler. Another great tool would be CFR[2]. Never know when these might come in handy.

edit* mind if i ask what game it is? :)

[1] https://bitbucket.org/mstrobel/procyon/wiki/Java%20Decompile...

[2] http://www.benf.org/other/cfr/

arzel··on Show HN: React SpreadSheet – Google Sheets-like performance
I was making something similar today to integrate into a dashboard, looks like I don’t need to anymore. This is very nice and well executed, thanks a million.
arzel··on Belgian man has been receiving pizzas he never ordered for years
Probably some group checking to see if their stolen credit cards are working, by ordering pizza to this guys address.
arzel··on Plywood: A New Cross-Platform Open Source C++ Framework
Agreed. It seems that people love to just throw around “library” “language” and “framework” now, but not know the differences.
arzel··on Crank.js – Write JSX-driven components with functions, promises and generators
this is amazing and just what i’ve been looking for. thanks my man!
arzel··on Khan Academy requests for donations as their servers are at 250% normal load
Ahh.. Khan Academy.. the usefulness this site provided throughout my middle and high school education. Quite frankly, it literally saved my ass. I've gone ahead and donated $1K.
arzel··on Launch HN: Orbiter (YC W20) – Autonomous data monitoring for non-engineers
I saw y’all on PH and immediately submitted to get early access. Super excited to try it out, and congrats on the launch!
arzel··on Vine founder launches TikTok competitor
Fun fact that I’ll shorten: (vine creators) all met at 1600 Vine in Los Angeles with Twitter execs. Creators asked Twitter for money because _we_ we’re getting offers by competitors to become exclusive to their platform, Twitter denied paying up, and all creators moved to other platforms. It only took a few months for the user base to die out.
arzel··on An ‘extraordinarily severe’ emergency: the radioactive leak at Harborview
Great article, surprised this is the first time I’m hearing about this.
arzel··on Azlo – Fee-free small business banking
Ok, I have had more or less a similar experience.

Couldn’t verify my identity(?) > Upload a photo of ID.

Couldn’t verify street address(?) > Upload a utility bill.

Couldn’t verify business street address(?) > Upload a utility bill.

Couldn’t verify my EIN(?) > Upload IRS EIN document.

The list goes on.. process took over a week. Eventually I was approved, just an insanely tedious process.

arzel··on Show HN: Server Hunter – Easily browse over 11,000 VPS and Dedicated Servers
Thank you for creating a hub where server providers are indexed. I've been looking for something like this for a while now. :)
arzel··on Magic Leap Review Part I
Imagine comparing Theranos to a toy.
arzel··on A Comcast Security Flaw Exposed Millions of Customers’ Personal Information
The information you obtain from vulnerabilities like these are used to obtain “original” social media accounts, and are then sold for a lot of money. To define what “original” is, take for instance “@shawn” on Instagram or Twitter. When these people target celebrities, they are mainly looking for a laugh and believe their “method” is about to be patched.

For example, T-Mobile and Verizon vulnerabilities are used to SIM swap and get around 2FA on instagram or twitter. Usually, they first try to find an employee who works at the store and has access to the database, before going through all the trouble of finding a vuln.

This has been an “underground” space for quite some time, but is slowly coming to light.

Source: I use to be in this space and made so much money off original usernames. To give you an idea of what a username goes for, I sold the Instagram @b*ss for $20,000.

arzel··on GitHub is down (again)
Up for me.
arzel··on Ask HN: Is no anti-virus software still best practice for mac?
Nowadays I just figure it's common sense on what to install/what not to install.

I personally haven't ever used an Antivirus on my Mac. If you believe you 'need' one, I recommend MalwareBytes.

arzel··on The 20-year-old entrepreneur is a myth, according to study
i always enjoy reading these articles, because others like myself who have had their startups acquired at a young age are beating the stigma.

but i feel as though in this day of age there’s so many “companies” who claim to be “startups.” sure, they may have the experience, just not the capital.. and with that it completely changes everything.

anyways i’m 21 and had a “startup” (an app) acquired at 18. now back in school, i can understand the articles perspective. i’m only 21 and i feel like i only really have 10% of the knowledge, compared to someone who is 40 and who has so much more experience then me.