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Huntr
Company blog · huntr.dev/blogsecurityprogramming
Huntr is the company blog at huntr.dev, writing about security and programming. Since 2020, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Disclose and Fix Security Vulnerabilities in Open Source”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Links to huntr.dev, a bug bounty platform for open source security vulnerabilities, cited as an example of paid open source contribution. Comments are mostly bare links, not praise or critique of writing.
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.
The world's first bug bounty platform for AI/ML
Most-linked posts?
- Disclose and Fix Security Vulnerabilities in Open Source2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-02-05
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-16
What Hacker News says?
There definitely are a few, kubernetes actually has a dedicated one that hacker one runs. Here are a few examples: https://www.hackerone.com/internet-bug-bounty https://huntr.dev/ https://securitylab.github.com/bounties/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/bug-bounty/
Comment linking /
on “Crypto wallet security as seen by security engineers”Submitted Understanding the recent Lodash vuln and how we can rally behind packages as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSomewhat similar is https://huntr.dev
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on “Ask HN: Would issue “bounties” make contributing to open source more appealing?”Submitted Mongoose Prototype Pollution Vulnerability (CVE-2023-3696) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://issuehunt.io/issues https://www.bountysource.com/ https://huntr.dev/ Taken from https://www.google.com/search?q=open+source+bounty
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on “Get Paid to Contribute to Urllib3”Submitted Disclose and Fix Security Vulnerabilities in Open Source as a story · 1 points
HN discussionBe careful with calibre-web; it's had a ton of vulnerabilities. To the author's credit, they are typically addressed quickly, but there have been enough related to auth to make me wary. https://huntr.dev/repos/janeczku/calibre-web/
Comment linking /repos/janeczku/calibre-web/
on “Ask HN: What's on your home server?”Submitted Bug Bounty Board for Open-Source Code – Fix Code Get Rewarded as a story · 1 points
HN discussion