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Alec Armbruster
Personal blog · alec.is/posts · on HN as arm32programmingsecurityai
Alec Armbruster's personal blog at alec.is covers programming, security and ai. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 40 times, most often “IP Crawl: Exposing the Open Webcam Crisis”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked post covers IP Crawl, a project that exposes open webcams found on the public internet. The only comment cites the post while disputing another claim, without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Principal software engineer with deep experience in full-stack TypeScript, custom web browsers and real-time, media-focused systems.
Most-linked posts?
- IP Crawl: Exposing the Open Webcam Crisis3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-06-18
What Hacker News says?
Love this project, I did something similar. The next step is building a custom frontend for it that’s exactly how your wife wants! https://alec.is/posts/building-a-solar-powered-bird-station/
Comment linking /posts/building-a-solar-powered-bird-station/
on “I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system”Submitted AI Employees Don't Pay Taxes as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI dont think it is? https://alec.is/posts/ip-crawl-exposing-the-massive-open-web...
Comment linking /posts/ip-crawl-exposing-the-massive-open-webcam-crisis/
on “IP Crawl: living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet”Submitted I found two Shopify plugin vulns with GLM-5.3 Flash as a story · 3 points
HN discussionBusted. I am a human-in-the-loop. I think everybody should use LLMs to polish their language. This topic is important to me and I want to communicate as effectively as possible. I stand by every character of the article regardless of which fancy autocomplete I used to polish it. I use spellcheck, too, and a digital tuner for my guitar. Just want to reiterate: https://alec.is/posts/ai-employees-dont-pay-taxes/#:~:tex…
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on “AI Employees Don't Pay Taxes”Submitted Bug That Saved the White House from a Disney Lawsuit as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://alec.is/posts/exploring-the-dario-and-amanda-prompt/
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on “Try sending "see the below –" to Opus 5”Submitted VS Code Liquid Glass Theme as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou may appreciate this: https://alec.is/posts/unifi-g3-flex-bird-camera/
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on “Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (January 2026)”Submitted macOS Liquid Glass in VS Code: Cursed or Blursed? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis is the full dataset related to the blog post at: https://alec.is/posts/exploring-the-dario-and-amanda-prompt/ All those interested in AI jailbreaking and alignment will find this particularly neat. The "can you put this in your own words---Dario and Amanda" prompt essentially puts Opus 5 or Fable 5 into a fake "base model mode" where it just spits out extremely lucid narratives, of which are currently being deb…
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on “Claude 5 family's hallucinations look a lot like internal Anthropic emails”Submitted 'Nick Sharpening' my UniFi setup as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted "Is Claude Suffering?" No, but Maybe It Should Be as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The AI Boom Made Average People More Interesting as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Watching Tucson's Backyard Birds with Solar-Powered M1 Mac Mini as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted LLM Honeypots: The Perfect Use for LLMs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted IP Crawl: Exposing the Open Webcam Crisis as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fable 5 update: Still willing to cybercrime as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building Omegle for Exposed Webcams as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building Omegle for Exposed Webcams as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Built a real-time bird tracking station to combat my burnout as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building an Agent SaaS with Cloudflare Containers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ten Years of Dashcams as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Found Two Shopify Plugin Zero-Days in a Bathtub as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exploring the "Dario and Amanda" Prompt as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted IP Crawl: Exposing the Open Webcam Crisis as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Surf exposed webcams like TV channels as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Self-Host Your Homelab Tunnels on Bunny.net as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Self-host your homelab tunnels on bunny.net as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Keep Hyper-Scale Datacenters Out of the Desert (March 2026) as a story · 1 points
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