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Thorn
Company blog · wearethorn.org/blogsecuritypolitics
Thorn is the company blog at wearethorn.org, writing about security and politics. Since 2015, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Thorn – Drive Tech Innovation to Fight Child Sexual Exploitation”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Thorn, a nonprofit fighting child sexual exploitation and human trafficking, for its recommended reading on stopping child abuse and for volunteer and survey opportunities for technologists.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
We builds tools to defend children from grooming, sextortion and more. We're on a mission to eliminate child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) from the internet.
Most-linked posts?
- Thorn – Drive Tech Innovation to Fight Child Sexual Exploitation3 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2016-10-17
What Hacker News says?
Thorn | San Francisco or Remote (US based) | Full-time Contract | $90k - $150k | Software Engineer | https://www.wearethorn.org/ Thorn is searching for a Full Stack Engineer and a Full Stack Engineer with Data Engineering Experience to join its engineering team as a full-time (40 hrs/week) contractor. This is a 9 month contract, with the possibility of extension. Thorn is a non-profit focused on building technology…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)”Submitted Thorn – Drive Tech Innovation to Fight Child Sexual Exploitation as a story · 56 points
HN discussionThorn | San Francisco or Remote (US based) | Full-time | $100k - $150k | Software Engineer Thorn is a non-profit focused on building technology to defend children from sexual abuse. Working at Thorn gives you the opportunity to apply your skills, expertise and passions to directly impact the lives of vulnerable and abused children. Our staff tackles dynamic, quickly evolving problems with our network of partners fro…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)”Submitted Using Spotlight to investigate human trafficking as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThorn | San Francisco or Remote (US based) | Full-time Contract | $100k - $150k | Software Engineer | https://www.wearethorn.org/ Thorn is searching for a software engineer to join its engineering team as a full-time (40 hrs/week) contractor. This is a 6 month contract, with the possibility of extension, or full-time consideration. Thorn builds technology to defend children from sexual abuse. The team’s current area…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)”Submitted Thorn – Building an Army of Technical Defenders as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThorn | Full-stack engineer + UI/UX, Systems Engineer | Remote (US & Canada) | Full-time | $100k - $150k | https://www.wearethorn.org/ Thorn is a non-profit that builds technology to defend children from sexual abuse. Thorn gives you the opportunity to apply your expertise and passion for building to directly impact the lives of vulnerable and abused children. We are looking for two people to join the team building…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)”THORN | Data Engineer | Full-stack Engineer | Full-stack Engineer with + UI/UX | REMOTE (US based) | FULL-TIME | $100k - $150k + Amazing benefits https://www.wearethorn.org Thorn is a non-profit that builds technology to defend children from sexual abuse. Thorn gives you the opportunity to apply your expertise and passion for building to directly impact the lives of vulnerable and abused children. Our staff solves d…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)”I left an amazing company with one of the best work environments ( https://webflow.com ) to work for a non-profit that fights child sexual abuse ( https://www.wearethorn.org ). The work has been incredibly rewarding, and although I was quite nervous about leaving an awesome job and jumping into an unknown, in hindsight almost everything about the change was a meaningfully positive improvement. Working towards a miss…
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on “Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?”thorn ( https://www.wearethorn.org/ ) is another project that takes technical volunteers: https://wearethorn.typeform.com/to/pZtK7Z
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on “Ask HN: How can I volunteer my software skills online?”Is human trafficking being facilitated over your app? Recommended reading by (Ashton Kutcher & Demi Moore's) non-profit Thorn: https://www.wearethorn.org/sound-practices-guide-stopping-ch... Want to contribute your time/talent to addressing the problem? https://www.wearethorn.org/survey/
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on “Fighting Human Trafficking: Open Data, Big Data, and Python”I’m a software engineer at Thorn. I don’t work directly on the research or data science side of things, but I work closely with those who do and they take it very seriously. Here’s some more detail from our website: https://www.wearethorn.org/child-sexual-exploitation-and-tec...
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on “Thorn – Drive Tech Innovation to Fight Child Sexual Exploitation”If you're interested in getting involved you can fill out a survey here: https://www.wearethorn.org/digital-defender-survey/ I'm a software engineer at Thorn, and I can assure you this is not just PR. We are committed to helping children in both the short and long term.
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on “Thorn – Drive Tech Innovation to Fight Child Sexual Exploitation”They work with all three. https://www.wearethorn.org/blog/eliminating-child-sexual-abu... https://www.wearethorn.org/blog/spotlight-tool-aids-in-recov...
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on “Thorn – Drive Tech Innovation to Fight Child Sexual Exploitation”