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Steven Hickson
Personal blog · stevenhickson.blogspot.caaisecurity
Steven Hickson writes Steves Computer Vision Blog, a personal blog at stevenhickson.blogspot.ca about ai and security. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Hacking Snapchat's people verification in less than 100 lines”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
A 2014 post describing how the author bypassed Snapchat's anti-robot (CAPTCHA-style) security in under 30 minutes. The only comment is a dismissive label calling it spam-like with a source link, with no judgment of 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.
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Most-linked posts?
- Hacking Snapchat's people verification in less than 100 lines2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-01-22
What Hacker News says?
Gizmodospam. Source URL: http://stevenhickson.blogspot.ca/2014/01/hacking-snapchats-p...
Comment linking /2014/01/hacking-snapchats-people-verification.html
on “How I Hacked Snapchat's Dumb Anti-Robot Security In Less Than 30 Minutes”Submitted Hacking Snapchat's people verification in less than 100 lines as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hacking Snapchat's people verification in less than 100 lines as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hacking Snapchat's people verification in less than 100 lines as a story · 1 points
HN discussion