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HTB Blog
Company blog · hackthebox.com/blogsecuritycareerprogramming
HTB Blog is the company blog at hackthebox.com, writing about security, career and programming. Since 2022, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “HackTheBox: A Hacking Playground”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters mention hackthebox.com as a hacking challenge platform for black-box pentesting practice on vulnerable machines, and as a source for CTF and lab content. They do not discuss its blog posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Hack The Box is the leading cyber readiness platform for the agentic era, battle-testing and upskilling both humans & AI agents to enhance organizational cyber resilience.
Most-linked posts?
- HackTheBox: A Hacking Playground5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-05-25
What Hacker News says?
Over the Wire's "Bandit" game was my tool of choice for teaching the introduction to shell for my university's Cybersecurity Club a few semesters in a row. It didn't feel like a chore because of the gamification and the go-your-own-pace approach -- the hints are also a nice touch. I highly recommend it to build some shell muscles and maybe learn something you didn't already know. For something more advanced with les…
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on “Exploit.education”Submitted HackTheBox: A Hacking Playground as a story · 117 points
HN discussionWe all have different ways of getting motivated and learning. You shouldn't yuck other peoples' yum. I've definitely heard of some games that teach programming skills getting popular. For example, https://flexboxfroggy.com/ http://www.flexboxdefense.com/ for teaching css layout. https://www.freecodecamp.org/ isn't marketed as a game, but absolutely feels like one when you are going through the program. https://www.h…
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on “GameShell: A game to learn or teach the Unix shell”Submitted Dirty Pipe Explained as a story · 78 points
HN discussionHackTheBox ( https://www.hackthebox.com/ ) is the largest and most active hacker challenge website. Focussed mainly around black box pentesting of vulnerable Windows and Linux machines, but they have lots of other types of content these days too such as CTF challenges and paid lab environments.
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on “The Matasano crypto challenges (2014)”Submitted HackTheBox as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI knew a guy who swore by hack the box https://www.hackthebox.com/ Flan scan is a pretty good tool to play around with.
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on “Ask HN: Resources for College Cybersecurity Club?”Submitted Create HTB Academy certification reports as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Are IT Degrees Still Relevant? as a story · 1 points
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