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OtterSec

Company blog · osec.io/blogsecurityprogramming

OtterSec is the company blog at osec.io, writing about security and programming. Since 2022, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “$100k to keep CTFs competitive in the age of AI”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-15, and you can follow it by feed.

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7mentions?
7HN people?
2022–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2026

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link OtterSec's blog for security write-ups, such as a 12-year-old G++ bug that broke Solidity and a piece on saving CTF competitions from AI-solved challenges.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Blockchain security audits and research.

Most-linked posts?

  1. $100k to keep CTFs competitive in the age of AI
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-09

What Hacker News says?

  1. questionaaire · 2025-08-15
    My only question is how this operator== override eluded the g++ test suite: https://osec.io/blog/2025-08-11-compiler-bug-causes-compiler...

    Comment linking /blog/2025-08-11-compiler-bug-causes-compiler-bug/

    on “Compiler Bug Causes Compiler Bug: How a 12-Year-Old G++ Bug Took Down Solidity”
  2. luu · 2025-08-12

    Submitted Compiler Bug Causes Compiler Bug: How a 12-Year-Old G++ Bug Took Down Solidity as a story · 170 points

    HN discussion
  3. not_a9 · 2026-08-12Recommends
    The talk about DEFCON CTF this year on Twitter seems to imply having LLMs allowed in CTF (or, at least, allowing autoslopping without significant restrictions) kinda kills the game. There’s a ton of sentiment about CTF being effectively dead. Outside of DEFCON I think this is an interesting article: https://osec.io/blog/save-ctfs-fund/

    Comment linking /blog/save-ctfs-fund/

    on “AI Is Solving CTF Challenges in Minutes”
  4. deut-erium · 2026-04-30

    Submitted Forging ZK proofs to mint arbitrary DUSK tokens as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. stuxf · 2026-07-09

    Submitted $100k to keep CTFs competitive in the age of AI as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. nailer · 2026-03-04

    Submitted Attacker can bypass cryptography and prove mathematically impossible statements as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. noch · 2022-09-16

    Submitted The Move Prover as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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