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Tracebit Research
Company blog · tracebit.com/blog · on HN as tracebitsecurity
Tracebit Research is the company blog at tracebit.com, writing about security. Since 2023, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 55 times, most often “Why Tracebit is written in C#”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Tracebit Research for Sam Cox's write-up on choosing C# for productivity, which one commenter cites as a reason C# is worth a fresh look.
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.
Most breaches aren't detected for months. Tracebit detects them in seconds. Deploy canaries across your environment that trigger high-fidelity alerts when attackers move laterally, escalate privileges, or access credentials.
Most-linked posts?
- Why Tracebit is written in C#3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-01-31
- Code Execution Through Deception: Gemini AI CLI Hijack3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-07-28
- How fast is AWS CloudTrail? Investigating CloudTrail delays using Athena2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-28
- How to find the AWS account ID of any S3 bucket2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-22
- NO_WILDCARD: How I Discovered the Organization ID of Any AWS Account2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-22
What Hacker News says?
Tracebit | https://tracebit.com | Multiple roles | London, UK | Full-Time | On-site (5 days) Tracebit lets security teams implement ‘assume breach’ with automated cloud based honeypots or canaries. Off the back of a successful seed fundraise from tier 1 VCs, we are actively hiring for smart people who get things done in the following positions: - Founding Engineer | £70-100k + equity | https://tracebit.com/jobs/foun…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024)”Submitted How to find the AWS account ID of any S3 bucket as a story · 583 points
HN discussionTracebit | https://tracebit.com | London, UK | Full-Time | On-site (5 days) Tracebit is a Seed Stage, UK founded security product company taking a new look at canaries for intrusion detection. We’re backed by Accel and we work with some amazing companies (Docker, Riot Games, Synthesia, Cresta, Oleria, Netacea) to help detect threats in cloud and enterprise. We’ve hired 4/6 founding engineers - there are 2 spaces lef…
Comment linking /blog/why-tracebit-is-written-in-c-sharp
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)”Submitted Why Tracebit is written in C# as a story · 245 points
HN discussionTracebit | https://tracebit.com | Multiple roles | London, UK | Full-Time | On-site (5 days) Tracebit lets security teams implement ‘assume breach’ with automated cloud based honeypots or canaries. Off the back of a successful seed fundraise from Accel, we are actively hiring for smart people who get things done in the following positions: - Founding Engineer | £70-100k + equity - Founding Frontend Engineer| £70-100…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024)”Submitted A hard look at AWS GuardDuty shortcomings as a story · 69 points
HN discussionTracebit | https://tracebit.com | London/New York| Full-Time Tracebit is an Accel backed, UK founded security product company taking a new look at canaries for intrusion detection. We work with some amazing companies (Docker, Riot Games, Synthesia, Zepz...) to help detect threats in cloud and enterprise. We're hiring: * Founding Engineer | London | £60-120k + generous equity * Founding Security Researcher | Remote |…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)”Submitted Code Execution Through Deception: Gemini AI CLI Hijack as a story · 11 points
HN discussionTracebit | https://tracebit.com | Multiple roles | London, UK | Full-Time | On-site (5 days) Tracebit lets security teams implement ‘assume breach’ with automated cloud based honeypots or canaries. Off the back of a successful seed fundraise from tier 1 VCs, we are actively hiring for smart people who get things done in the following positions: - Founding Engineer | £70-100k + equity | https://tracebit.com/jobs/foun…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024)”Submitted Surprising inconsistencies in Azure audit logging as a story · 7 points
HN discussionTracebit | https://tracebit.com | Multiple roles | London, UK | Full-Time | On-site (5 days) Tracebit lets security teams implement ‘assume breach’ with automated cloud based honeypots or canaries. Off the back of a successful seed fundraise from Accel, we are actively hiring for smart people who get things done in the following positions: - Founding Engineer | £70-100k + equity - Founding Frontend Engineer| £70-100…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024)”Submitted Breaching the Data Perimeter: CloudTrail as a Mechanism for Data Exfiltration as a story · 6 points
HN discussionTracebit | https://tracebit.com | Multiple roles | London, UK | Full-Time | On-site (5 days) Tracebit lets security teams implement ‘assume breach’ with automated cloud based honeypots or canaries. Off the back of a successful seed fundraise from tier 1 VCs, we are actively hiring for smart people who get things done in the following positions: - Founding Engineer | £70-100k + equity | https://tracebit.com/jobs/foun…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024)”Submitted Real World Cloud TTPs vs. Canary Infrastructure as a story · 6 points
HN discussionTracebit | https://tracebit.com | Multiple roles | London, UK | Full-Time | On-site (5 days) Tracebit lets security teams implement ‘assume breach’ with automated cloud based honeypots or canaries. Off the back of a successful seed fundraise from Accel, we are actively hiring for smart people who get things done in the following positions: - Founding Engineer | £70-100k + equity - Founding Frontend Engineer| £70-100…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024)”Submitted Breaching the AWS Data Perimeter: Data Exfiltration via AWS CloudTrail as a story · 5 points
HN discussionTracebit | https://tracebit.com | Multiple roles | London, UK | Full-Time | On-site (5 days) Tracebit lets security teams implement ‘assume breach’ with automated cloud based honeypots or canaries. Off the back of a successful seed fundraise from Accel, we are actively hiring for smart people who get things done in the following positions: - Founding Engineer | £70-100k + equity - Founding Frontend Engineer| £70-100…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024)”Submitted The Security Canary Maturity Model as a story · 5 points
HN discussionTracebit | https://tracebit.com | Multiple roles | London, UK | Full-Time | On-site (5 days) Tracebit lets security teams implement ‘assume breach’ with automated cloud based honeypots or canaries. Off the back of a successful seed fundraise from Accel, we are actively hiring for smart people who get things done in the following positions: - Founding Engineer | £70-100k + equity - Founding Frontend Engineer| £70-100…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025)”Submitted NO_WILDCARD: I Discovered the Organization ID of Any AWS Account as a story · 5 points
HN discussionTracebit | https://tracebit.com | London/New York| Full-Time Tracebit is an Accel backed, UK founded security product company taking a new look at canaries for intrusion detection. We work with some amazing companies (Docker, Riot Games, Synthesia, Zepz...) to help detect threats in cloud and enterprise. We're hiring: * Founding Engineer | London | £60-120k + generous equity | Relocation & Visa sponsorship available…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)”Submitted NO_WILDCARD: How I Discovered the Organization ID of Any AWS Account as a story · 5 points
HN discussionTracebit | https://tracebit.com | London, UK | Full-Time | Visa sponsorship available | On-site (5 days) Tracebit is a Seed Stage, UK founded security product company taking a new look at canaries for intrusion detection. We’re backed by Accel and we work with some amazing companies (Docker, Riot Games, Synthesia, Cresta, Oleria, Netacea) to help detect threats in cloud and enterprise. We’ve hired 5/6 founding engin…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025)”Submitted How to Find the AWS Account ID of Any S3 Bucket as a story · 4 points
HN discussionTracebit | https://tracebit.com | London, UK | Full-Time | Visa sponsorship available | On-site (5 days) Tracebit is a Seed Stage, UK founded security product company taking a new look at canaries for intrusion detection. We’re backed by Accel and we work with some amazing companies (Docker, Riot Games, Synthesia, Cresta, Oleria, Netacea) to help detect threats in cloud and enterprise. We’ve hired 5/6 founding engin…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2025)”Submitted How fast is AWS CloudTrail? Investigating CloudTrail delays using Athena as a story · 3 points
HN discussionTracebit | https://tracebit.com | London/New York| Full-Time Tracebit is an Accel backed, UK founded security product company taking a new look at canaries for intrusion detection. We work with some amazing companies (Docker, Riot Games, Synthesia, Zepz...) to help detect threats in cloud and enterprise. We're hiring: * Founding Engineer | London | £60-120k + generous equity | Relocation & Visa sponsorship available…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)”Submitted Honeypots for Intrusion Detection as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIndeed. I read a great write up by Sam Cox of Tracebit[0] on his selection of C# and his focus on productivity nails it on the head. One of the best ORMs, rich standard libraries and first party packages, and has been converging with TypeScript and JavaScript over the last decade[1] while having all of the advantages of runtime type safety. Folks that last looked at C# over a decade ago don't know what they are miss…
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on “Why F# could be the next mainstream programming language (2024)”Submitted Detecting CI/CD supply chain attacks with canary credentials as a story · 2 points
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