Hacker News: bashwizard

New comment by bashwizard in "Average is all you need"

bashwizard — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:43:24 +0000

The majority of devs are average. What a shocker.

New comment by bashwizard in "Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta's $2B Lobbying for Age Verification Tech"

bashwizard — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 13:49:06 +0000

It's a coordinated psyop to enforce mass surveillance and control. The question we should ask ourselves is "Who are they?". Their agenda is clear already.

New comment by bashwizard in "The next era of social media: built and run in Europe, ruled by our laws"

bashwizard — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 10:45:31 +0000

Thanks but no thanks. I'm not going to give you any of personal information whatsoever.

New comment by bashwizard in "Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account"

bashwizard — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 06:39:13 +0000

Raycast is all I need. AeroSpace if tiling windows is your thing.

New comment by bashwizard in "Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account"

bashwizard — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 06:24:08 +0000

This is another good one: https://christitus.com/windows-tool/

New comment by bashwizard in "Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room"

bashwizard — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 06:46:24 +0000

You sound like me. I disliked CS because of how slow and campy it was compared to Quake and we always had this banter in my friend group about Quake vs CS vs Unreal Tournament and which game requires more skill. I ended up playing for one of the best clans in Sweden and competed for a few years until Q3 eventually died.

I did try playing CS more serious for some time but I just couldn't stand it and I never had the patience. Got to respect that.

Quake requires more skill btw.

New comment by bashwizard in "Spotting base64 encoded JSON, certificates, and private keys"

bashwizard — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 11:03:07 +0000

A dev who have never seen a base64 string before? Fascinating.

New comment by bashwizard in "I scanned all of GitHub's "oops commits" for leaked secrets"

bashwizard — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 09:44:30 +0000

I'm surprised that it's not more. I couple of years ago I spent a few months basically github dorking for leaked api keys and made more than that.

New comment by bashwizard in "Ask HN: Is your company forcing use of AI?"

bashwizard — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 07:44:52 +0000

When the cognitive dissonance hits you in the face like a truck, you hit that button!

New comment by bashwizard in "Dear "Security Researchers""

bashwizard — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 12:32:34 +0000

Companies like that needs to be outed so that no one will ever go any testing whatsoever for them in the future.

New comment by bashwizard in "Ask HN: How did the internet discover my subdomain?"

bashwizard — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 08:00:32 +0000

Like people have said already; Certificate Transparency logs.

There are countless of tools to use for subdomain enumeration. I personally use subfinder or amass when doing recon on bug bounty targets.

New comment by bashwizard in "MacBook Air M4"

bashwizard — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 08:01:23 +0000

> It's because the phone's CPU isn't keeping up.

That's bs. You will immediately notice the difference when going from let's say 120 hz down to 60 hz on a fast gaming pc even if you're just dragging windows around. Everything feels jarring to say the least compared to higher refresh rates and it has absolutely nothing to do with the CPU. It's because of the refresh rate.

It's same thing going from 120 hz to 60 hz on a phone while scrolling and swiping.

It's quite interesting though that there are people out there who won't notice the huge difference. But hey, at least they don't have to pay premium for the increase performance of the screen.

New comment by bashwizard in "Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted"

bashwizard — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 06:35:25 +0000

And then there's common sense. Something most people seems to lack.

New comment by bashwizard in "SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube"

bashwizard — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 05:43:00 +0000

r/USDefaultism

New comment by bashwizard in "Ask HN: How do you find developers for open source bug bounties?"

bashwizard — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 11:55:42 +0000

Security related vulnerabilities.

New comment by bashwizard in "Ask HN: How do you find developers for open source bug bounties?"

bashwizard — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 11:51:56 +0000

I know some of them in person as I'm involved in the bug bounty scene myself. What they work on varies depending on skill set and interest. I do not personally know any security researchers with high impact vulnerabilites in iOS but those people get paid millions and you'll never hear about them.

What I do know is that they tend to sell their exploits through exploit brokers like Zerodium.

New comment by bashwizard in "Ask HN: How do you find developers for open source bug bounties?"

bashwizard — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 06:21:25 +0000

I know many people making a very good living from bounties (>$500k/year). If you're good, you'll make bank. If not - don't quit your day job.

New comment by bashwizard in "Spotify demonetizes all tracks under 1k streams"

bashwizard — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 08:56:20 +0000

I have a few thousand of streams per month and I make pennies from it. It's not like I care about being demonetized on spotify and losing a few pennies.

New comment by bashwizard in "Physical attractiveness and intergenerational social mobility"

bashwizard — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 14:47:07 +0000

It's almost as if hypergamy is real. Shocking.

New comment by bashwizard in "Quitting the full-time poker scene"

bashwizard — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 11:02:06 +0000

I used to play professionally during 2003-2007 until all the poker coaching sites started popping up everywhere. The money was indeed crazy and I was making roughly $400k/year at NL1000 back then. Eventually my winrate started dropping along with all the fish leaving the game and the whole boom died out. I did a year coaching but later decided to leave poker for good.

Good times though and kind of surreal for a 20 something year old dude.