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Hive Five 271 - You Should Know

From headless AI agents and the three engineer archetypes of 2026 to life-reset blueprints, the case for being "unpromptable," and the secrets of bootstrapping to $5M ARR.

Your Content Is Not a Library. It's a Nervous System.

Most companies treat content like an archive. The ones winning in CX treat it like infrastructure.

Hive Five 270 - Impeccable

Can Sam Altman Be Trusted, The Self-Help Trap, Wildlife Traffickers on Facebook, Starbucks Internal Network via SSRF, LLM costs cut 59%, DHH Writes Code with AI agents, Advanced YouTube Search, Startup Jobs Before They're Posted

Hive Five 269 - Navigating the Matrix

Obsidian is Hiring, Axios npm supply chain hit post-mortem, Gemma 4 drops, MCP-powered vuln hunting, apfel brings Apple AI to your terminal, Boris on building Claude Code, How Corporate Politics Work And How To Win

Hive Five 268 - Some Things Just Take Time

GitHub training on private repos, Bug Bounties in the Age of AI, LiteLLM malware on PyPI, Stripe's 1,300 AI-written PRs weekly, running Tesla hardware at home, K8s scanning fleet threats, package manager "cooldown" periods, replacing SaaS with custom AI agents, and the rise of "vibe coding" SwiftUI apps.

Hive Five 267 - Optimize for the sun

Reuters identifies Banksy, AI-found RCE in Storybook, Friendship recession, delta makes git diffs beautiful, Journalist becomes iOS dev with Claude Code, Rez0's Top Claude Skill Secrets

Hive Five #266 - My Grandfather's Cat

Paul Graham on the brand age, MCP authentication nightmare, Shopify's AI-driven 53% faster Liquid engine, coding after coders, IronCurtain sandboxes AI agents, vibe security radar, Craig Mod goes software bonkers, LLM leaderboard hack, Simon Willison on agentic engineering, geohot on AI agent hype

Hive Five 265 - Why Your High IQ is Making You Stupid

Getting into Cybersecurity in 2026, From Black Hat to Bug Bounty Legend, Clinejection compromises Cline releases, GPT-5.4 launches with 1M context, Angular supply chain attack via GitHub Actions, Raycast ships Glaze desktop app builder

Hive Five 264 - The Intelligence Premium

2028 Global Intelligence Crisis thought experiment, AI startups and the end of thinking, AI as exoskeleton not coworker, Google API keys plus Gemini, curl returns to HackerOne, Suno $300M vs artists, Obsidian CLI, Claude Code Remote Control, Happy Map, Dictionary Compression

1Password Has a Great Product. Their Customer Journey Has a Problem.

I've been a 1Password user for years. So when I decided to audit their customer experience end-to-end, I wasn't going in cold. I was going in as a customer who actually cares.

Hive Five 263 - Take the Shot

Codex builds itself, AI job fears overblown, cognitive debt vs technical debt, taste for makers, omnipotence dilemma, performance reviews as capitalism scorecard, HackerOne AI + Bug Bounty Data

Hive Five 262 - The AI Vampire

Claude Opus 4.6 found 500+ vulnerabilities, Jeff Dean on the AI Frontier, Discord lacks encrypted alternatives, RCE in Google's Antigravity, Moshi SSH terminal for AI agents, Essential Linux CLI tools, OpenAI's Agentic Browser Atlas

The "Magic" Remote Reset

Hive Five 261 - New Year New Gear

Web Hacking Techniques, LLM Coding Evolution, AI Adoption, Oracle EBS Exploits, Discovering Negative-Days, Shadow CX, Backseat Software, Cloud Agent Thesis, Open Source Design, and Minimalist Gear.

Shadow CX Is About to Become a Massive Problem

And most companies won't see it coming. AI just gave fragmented customer touchpoints steroids.

Hive Five 260 - The Rise of Agent Social Networks

SmarterMail Auth Bypass Under Active Exploitation, Cloudflare Zero-Day, Hacking AI Children's Toys, Curl Ends Bug Bounty, Blazing Fast Homebrew Replacement, One Human + One Agent = One Browser, Obsidian Tunnel

Hive Five 259 - The Browser is the Sandbox

Scaling Long-Running Coding Agents, Vimeo Layoffs, Why To Shell Script, How AWS S3 is Built, Gift Cards Security Research, Getting Jacked at 50, The Optimizer: Productive, But Miserable

Hive Five 258 - Social Filesystem

Robotics + AI, Facebook Account Takeover, Getting off US tech, Cloudflare acquires Astro framework, and more...

Hive Five 257 - The Legion of Doom

21 Hard-Earned Lessons from 15 years at Google, Shipping at Inference-Speed, The year in LLMs, Training the Idea Muscle, and more...

Hive Five 256 - 2025 Recap

The Post-Developer Era, AI-Powered Bug Bounty Hunting, Agentic Coding Workflows, Career Growth Frameworks, High Agency Mindsets, Security Vulnerabilities & Record Payouts, Personal Operating Systems with Obsidian, Digital Minimalism, Medicine 3.0 & Functional Health, The Rise of AI "Slop", Community Influencers, Vibe Coding & Tool Evolution

Hive Five 255 - How to Crush Your 2026 Goals

Andrej Karpathy's 2025 AI review, Derek Thompson's 2026 key trends, Claude Code as an AI employee, PostHog RCE exploit chain, the rise of human storytellers in the AI era, MRI signal misinterpretation study, unlearning the myth of career control, the GPS goal-setting method, linear calendar systems for energy management, building personal databases in Obsidian, and more...

Frequently Returned: When Honesty Becomes Your Competitive Edge

Most companies optimize for conversion. The best ones optimize for trust. One honest warning label does more than an entire service recovery team.

Hive Five 254 - The Fundamentals

Vibe coding is boring, Cursor rips out CMS for AI, Kelsey Hightower on DevOps evolution, Microsoft expanded bug bounties, The Linux Foundation launched Agentic AI Foundation, and more...

Hive Five 253 - Princeton not prison

Claude's Soul Document Leaked, Bun Joins Anthropic, React2Shell Critical Vulnerability, Neo AI Hacks WordPress in 60 Minutes, Cursor Optimizes for GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, Obsidian CEO's Template System, Theo's Advanced Cursor Workflow, Why You Can't Focus at Work, Opus 4.5 Changes Programming Forever, Fighter Jets Ban 90% of C++, and more...

Hive Five 252 - Cheesy, Spicy, Crunchy, Saucy

Prompt Injection Isn't a Vulnerability, Ordering Pizza With Code, Owner's Delusion, Context Plumbing, Do You Even Boing, How To Remember Everything You Read, Why Your Best Engineers Are Interviewing Elsewhere, 2026 Obsidian Setup, and more...

Hive Five 251 - Runnin' Down a Dream

Dependency Cooldowns, QWERTY > DVORAK, Complete Developer Tutorial for Nano Banana Pro, Cloudflare's Worst Outage, DownDetector's Down Detector, and more...

Hive Five 250 - The Mountain Is You

Curate People, AI Documentation, Hacking Gemini, Curated Black Friday Deals, MCP Hacking Guide, and more...

Hive Five 249 - Scope Creep

Inside Cursor, AI pentest scoping playbook, Is NASA Failing, Hacking More Efficiently, Introduction to DIthering, Vibecoding Promise and Peril

How I Cut My Newsletter Curation Time by 30%

Reading 200 articles in your RSS feed a week kills productivity

Hive Five 248 - Medicine 3.0

Hacking Formula 1, Using Cursor for PM instead of Code, Peter Attia Protocol on a Budget, How Elon Works, You're Using Claude Code Wrong, The AI Productivity Trap, and more...

Hive Five 247 - You Are How You Act

How to Stay Original, Exploiting Syntax Confusions in the Wild, How to Find Your Life's Purpose, AI: Browsers and Skills, Prompt Injection to RCE in AI Agents, and More...

Hive Five 246 - Just Talk To It

Critical bugs in Adobe Experience Manager, Andrej Karpathy on AI agents' decade-long maturation, insights on hacking the World Poker Tour, a better approach to hustle culture, and Karpathy's nanochat, a ChatGPT clone you can train for $100 on an 8-GPU node in 4 hours.

Your Launch Is Incomplete Without This One Step

Every customer-facing launch should live in your community. Here's why most companies miss this and how it kills their flywheel before it starts.

Hive Five 245 - Frame of Preference

Vibing a Non-Trivial Ghostty Feature, Vite Documentary, Open Source Supply Chain Compromises, Guide to Big Companies: Retaining great people, Master Clipboard History in Raycast

Start with Your Cognac Moment

Your customer experience isn't a factory assembly line. It's a restaurant. Learn how to create experience systems that make excellence mandatory, not optional.

Hive Five 244 - Life is Poker, Not Chess

The Rise of the Bionic Hacker, Critical GitHub Vulnerabilities, How to Get Rich (Without Luck), AI-Powered Interns, OpenAI's Gigawatt Factory, and The Perfect $3,600 Keyboard

Hive Five 243 - Two Things Can Be True

From managing people to managing AI, Timeless Strategies for Success, AI Comprehension Gaps, How To Stop AI's "lethal trifecta", 4 Things to Stop Feeling Overwhelmed At Work

Hive Five 242 - AI Agent

AI Will Eliminate Most Jobs, TECH Framework to Land Jobs; Waymore Tool Talk, 6 Eye-Opening Graphs of How We Spend Our Time, The Making of Prince of Persia

Hive Five 241 - You Need To Be Bored

Breaking Down Silksong's Game Design, Ultimate AI-powered Second Brain, You Get What You Tolerate, Why Originality is Overrated, iPhone AI Workflows

CX Review: Spotify — Post-Sales Support Journey

Teardown of Spotify's customer support experience with friction findings and orchestration opportunities for immediate improvement.

Hive Five 240 - Anti-Complexity

Building Your Own AI-powered Life Management System, State of SWE Job Market in 2025, AGENTS.md New Default in Repos, Cloudflare launched AI Insights, The Rude Q&A, Kidlin's Law and more..

The Compound Interest of Customer Experience

Why CX systems that compound over time outperform traditional support models—and how to build them.

Hive Five 239 - The No List

Uncover Python's story, fast-track your promotion, build AI for people, boost learning with AI tutors, adopt three productivity habits, transform work with Obsidian, and more...

Hive Five 238 - AI and God

Obsidian Bases introduces dynamic databases for interconnected thinking, GPT-5 makes history by tackling a DEF CON CTF Finals challenge, AI safety overlooks children, Critical vulnerability in Cluely, and security gaps in OWASP's Core Rule Set.

Hive Five 237 - Different Kinds of Smart

AI hacker finds P1 vulnerability for $2, Reddit blocks Internet Archive, and why "vibe coding" creates instant legacy code

Ditching Inline Journaling

A Better Way to Capture and Expand Your Thoughts in Obsidian

Hive Five 236 - You Can Just Do Things

Found my first website from 2004 (RIP table layouts), Rod Canion's fight against IBM in the 80s, HTTP vulnerabilities bringin in $350k+ in bounties to why you should stop chasing credentials and start building leverage instead.

Hive Five 235 - Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good

Hive Five 234 - High Taste Tester

Discover why the best tools are invisible and how to build momentum. We investigate how Delta's AI is now setting personalized ticket prices, Andrew Ng's strategies for accelerating development, and Cursor's new "Bugbot" that automatically debugs your code.

Hive Five 233 - No Days Off

Critical NVIDIA AI Vulnerability, OpenAI's Math Olympiad Gold Medal, Career-Making Tweets, The Death of Pocket, Brutally Honest Tech Industry Truths, Leaking IPs in Brave Tor Window, and more...

Hive Five 232 - Flounder Mode

Naming expert shares process, Perfectionism masquerades as ambition, McHire security vulnerability, Chrome's Local LLM, 6-Hour DHH interview

Hive Five 231 - I Don't Use Arch Btw

First Lazygit Release under New Maintainer, Abandoning Arc for Dia browser, Reproducing a Million-Dollar Bug, Red Teaming at National CCDC 2025, 10x "overemployed" engineer, and more...

Hive Five 230 - Agentic Coding

Evolution of AI assistants, Novel SSRF Technique, How to win a Nobel prize, Forging Passkeys, First-ever State of Devs 2025 Survey, and more...

Hive Five 229 - Software Is Changing (Again)

Karpathy on Software 3.0, Attacks on American Institutions, Netflix Vulnerability, TDD Creator on AI, The Ultimate Raycast Deep Dive, Why Japan is Winning the War on Distraction

Raycast Quicklinks

7 Obsidian shortcuts for tasks and notes, social media filters, and utility tools that reduce friction and keep my workflow flowing. A look at my daily productivity system.

#228 - Surf the Front Edge of the Wave

From Rate Limits to No Limits, How AI Models Work Under the Hood, Hacking Windsurf, Breaking Down EchoLeak, Claude Code: How Two Engineers Ship Like a Team of 15

Hive Five 227 - Developers, Developers, Developers.

Hope-driven development, Crusaders of Rust, Automatically Switch Light/Dark Mode for Terminal Apps, AI Engineer World's Fair 2025, Steve Ballmer Interview, NahamCon 2025 talks

Hive Five 226 - Mastery vs. Management

Critical GitHub MCP vuln, The Era of the Business Idiot, Top War Stories from a Try Hard Bug Bounty Hunter, Grafana Full read SSRF and Account Takeover

Hive Five 225 - The Way of Code

Discover Obsidian Bases for powerful note organization, Rick Rubin’s fusion of Taoism and coding in The Way of Code, the new Ladybird browser engine as a Chromium alternative, critical GitLab Duo security flaws, and advanced AI prompt injection techniques.

Hive Five 224 - Happiest Country on Earth

Security for High Velocity Engineering, Code Like a Journalist, Learn to Feedback, Raycast introduces MCP

Hive Five 223 - Career Dreamer

Making $64k from finding leaked secrets in GitHub repos, understanding the urgency of AI interpretability, practical tips for setting boundaries while working from home, and even how to run an LLM inside a PDF.

Hive Five 222 - How to Move Fast

The History of SSH Port 22, Surviving the Digital Extinction, AI Coding: Killing the Joy?, Raycast Lands on iOS, Judge to Apple: "This is Not a Negotiation!", Stripe CEO on Moving Fast, Replace Your $700/hr Coach with AI?

Hive Five 221 - Underdoing the Competition

How to Predict the Future, From Fast Food to Cybersecurity, Boost Productivity by 40x w/ AI, TikTok is testing Footnotes, How to Learn Kubernetes in 2025

Hive Five 220 - The Post-Developer Era

Scarcity and Abundance in 2025, Nominative Determinism, Because Computers Are Stupid, NahamCon 2025, How To Get The Most Out of A Book, and more...

Hive Five 219 - Defeating Prompt Injections by Design

Kubernetes for Pentesters, 20 years of Git, Using AI with JavaScript, Secret Bug Bounty Programs

Hive Five 218 - AI 2027 & The End Of Children

Bill Gates celebrates Microsoft's 50th anniversary, 3-part mini-series on hacking AI apps, Meet Silicon Valley's #1 PR Expert: Lulu Cheng Meservey.

Bee-yond the Hive: Debug Your Day - Tiny Experiments for Real Results

Instead of feeling like you have to overhaul your whole life, just pick one small thing you're curious about or want to improve, and design a tiny experiment around it.

Hive Five 217 - High Agency and the Beginner's Mind

From beginner's mind in tech and high agency living, to critical cloud vulnerabilities and the future of writing with AI, plus an epic ultramarathon victory.

Hive Five 216 - The Hacker Always Wins

Online Fact-Checking Industry, Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God.

Hive Five 215 - Prompt Your Way To Personal Growth

The Definitive Guide on How to Use LLMs to Write Better Code, Beyond the Hook: A Deep Dive into the Latest Phishing Tricks, Exploiting Hidden Parameters in YouTube

Hive Five 214 - Pressing Buttons

Mastering Personal Productivity, Portswigger Top 10 Web Security Research, Cursor's AI Infrastructure, and Finding Joy in Work.

Hive Five 213 - Agency > Intelligence

Discover critical AI app vulnerabilities & how to prevent them. Plus, a deep dive into an RCE flaw affecting millions, a malicious VS Code theme, and Karpathy's insights on maximizing LLM performance.

Hive Five 212 - Vibe Coding

AI Engineer Summit talks, Stop Using Cursor AI Like a Search Engine, 3 SSRFs in Azure DevOps, Obsidian is Free for Work, Triage System for Time Management

Hive Five 211 - Stop Working So Hard

The Pentesting Pastor, Hunting for DOMPurify Misconfigurations, Hack Like a Pirate, Google AI Studio Walkthrough, Speak at 92 Beats Per Minute

Bee-yond the Hive: Optimal keyboard shortcuts

Unleash your productivity potential! Get an inside look at my custom key bindings for lightning-fast workflows in Obsidian, Raycast, and more. Learn how to create your own personalized setup and work at the speed of thought.

Hive Five 210 - We Are Destroying Software

Top 10 Web Hacking Techniques of 2024, Future Lies in Holistic, Full-Stack Engineers, Karpathy: Deep Dive into AI Technology Behind ChatGPT, Agencies Are a Relic of the Past

Quoting Dr. Julie Gurner: "Talent is a high-risk gift."

Talent Isn't Your Savior, It's Your Ceiling

Hive Five 209 - New Space

How to Escalate XSS, Ghostty 1.1.0, Elevenlabs Scraps Job Titles, Obsidian Dynamic Tables and Collaborative Editing, World's First MIDI Shellcode, Optimize your WFH lighting.

Hive Five 208 - Nobody Cares

Hacking Subaru, Being a FOSS Developer in Prison, Google's Patch Rewards Program, Claude is Hiring ASEs, Obsidian 2024 Gems Of The Year Winners, NixOS Wiki Beef

Hive Five 207 - Brain Rot and One Man Armies

Editing with LLMs, 80% faster Ax framework, AI-first Director of Finance, Obsidian 2024 Gems of the Year Voting, 8 Lessons from Red Teaming 100 Gen AI Products, The Big Ass Data Broker Opt-Out List, and more...

Hive Five 206 - AI Crash Course

Google white paper on AI Agents, HuntDB: track and monitor CVEs, 2024 Good Tech Awards, Bugcrowd HackerCup '24 Winners Interview, InternetCTF, How To Become a Hacker, and more...

Bee-side 204 - COBOL Jobs Domain & Browser-Based Background Removal

New prompt injection research examines CIA security triad impacts. React+Vite tool enables client-side background removal. Developer shares insights monitoring COBOLJobs.com niche.

Bee-side 203 - AI Innovation, Dev Tools & Digital Security

New AI tools reshape email and knowledge management, Terminal advances boost dev workflow efficiency, Security flaws exposed in car cameras and cloud systems, OSINT methods evolve.

Bee-side 202 - Security Tools, AI Innovation & Dev Productivity

Security vulnerabilities exposed in multiple platforms, New AI tools reshape meeting notes and voice processing, Developer workflow optimized through terminal innovations, Open-source scanners enhance threat detection.

Bee-side 201 - Web Security Patterns, AI Integration & Growth Hacking Strategies

CORS vulnerabilities discovered in Go implementations. AI meeting assistant launch, web hacking activity guide. Successful SEO frameworks shared for AI startups.

Hive Five 205 - Join or die

A vulnerability in Nuclei scanner, multiple hackers report record-breaking 2024 earnings, including a $100k Meta payout. Paper on TikTok's novel Monolith recommendation system, and significant shifts in LLM capabilities throughout 2024.

Hive Five 204 - Make Change That Lasts

The PlasticList report, I'm Loving It, Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam, Flare-On 2024 challenges walkthrough, New Spooky Terminal on the Block, Microsoft Embraces Markdown, and more...

Hive Five 203 - How To Live an Epic Life

Career Advice for New Tech Workers in 2025, 7 Simple Rules to Crush Your To-Do List, Karpathy's Favorite Books, Best Products of 2024, and more...

Hive Five 202 - A Bias to Action

New terminal on the block: Ghostty, Neovim tutorial series, Docker fundamentals for hackers, and the Four Quarters productivity method. Recent buzz includes Meta's Llama 3.3 70B model launch and critical findings in Android security vulnerabilities.

Hive Five 201 - Egoless Engineering

Publish your work and change your life, Handling Cookies is a Minefield, A Geolocation Challenge that took 7 years to solve, and more...

Bee-side 200 - Security Testing Tools, Dev Environments & Website Monetization

Project Strange for IAM visibility and Qwen2.5-Coder language model, while Privastead introduces end-to-end encrypted home security cameras. Tutorials cover Burp Suite Bambdas optimization and rapid website-building techniques. DevSpace streamlines Kubernetes development workflow and Satori enhances HTML-to-SVG conversion capabilities.

Bee-side 199 - AI Startups & Security, Dev Tools & APIs, Creator Success Stories

Fortune 1000 companies face risks with 30,000+ exposed APIs, while new security tools tackle Fortinet vulnerabilities and CTF challenges. Developers can explore fresh resources including a Go programming book and Apache Spark tutorials. AI-powered startups are showing remarkable growth, with one GPT wrapper reaching 30,000 paying subscribers and multiple entrepreneurs sharing their success strategies.

Bee-side 198 - Security Vulnerabilities, AI Innovation & Productivity Tools

Researchers uncover critical vulnerabilities in Opera extensions and IoT devices while exploring novel attack surfaces with OWASP Noir. New studies reveal AI's impact on scientific research, showing 44% boost in materials discovery despite decreased job satisfaction. Practical tutorials cover Notion workflows, Neovim Zettelkasten systems, and advanced note-taking methodologies for developers.

Bee-side 197 - Web Tools, Security Research & Entrepreneurial Journeys

Security researcher Mert tops the P1-Warrior list with 466 critical vulnerabilities, while Sophos conducts a counteroffensive against Chinese exploit developers. New tools Directus, Crawlee, and Dolt streamline database management and more...

Bee-side 196 - Cloud Infrastructure, Product Design, and YouTube Growth Strategies

This week's notable content features discussions on AWS cloud infrastructure debates, Steve Jobs' product design principles, Ali's YouTube channel growth insights for 2025, and more...

Hive Five 200 - A Career Ending Mistake

Mutation XSS Explained, How to Best Start Bug Bounty to Earn $100k in 1 year, Getting started with AI: Good enough prompting, and more...

Building a Beehiiv Newsletter Search Bot: From Idea to Implementation

Transforming three years of carefully curated tech and security content into an instantly searchable Discord resource. A technical journey of combining human curation with machine efficiency.

Hive Five 199 - Security Footguns

Most Used Open-Source Repos, Ghost Engineers, Breaking the Most Popular WAFs, Black Friday 2024 Deals, Vim while Cycling, and more...

Buzz & Boost: Serena aka Shenetworks

An offensive security professional who shares her experiences and expertise through educational content on platforms like TikTok, Twitter (X), YouTube, and Twitch. Her focus includes topics related to penetration testing, ethical hacking, and other areas of cybersecurity.

Hive Five 198 - Do Hard Things

Fresh from the Colorado mountains 🏔️ From a LAN-party optimized house to AI-driven data patterns, PHP security hardening & bug bounty success stories. Plus NeovimConf returns & Anthropic is hiring!

Hive Five 197 - Winning doesn’t always feel like winning

Life-changing purchases under $100, Common Detection & Evasion Techniques for WAFs, Aaron Swartz Day 2024, From failing 22 times to building a $2.5B Company, and more...

Buzz & Boost: Ciarán Cotter aka monkehack

Irish-Japanese web hacker living in Scotland. Building his own company, growing his weekly newsletter, and producing interesting web research.

Bee-side 195 - From Cyber Fines to Community Building: When Quality Trumps Speed

Subtitle: SEC hands out major cybersecurity breach penalties, Linear and former Twitter CEO advocate for slow-quality over fast-shipping, Niantic's community transformation success, OWASP's new security ruleset, and a fresh take on DevOps-as-a-Service

Bee-side 194: From $10K Bug Bounties to $100K Chrome Extensions

MIT Email Spoofing, AI Home Staging App Hits $10K/Month, Burp Suite Updates, SpaceX's Flying Skyscraper, Bug Bounty Drama, WordPress vs WP Engine, and more...

Hive Five 196 - How To Make $100k Bug Hunting in 2025

The 2024 Best Inventions list, Notion Email client, Neovim Markdown setup, 20 essential Gmail settings, HeroCTF v6 writeups, and more...

TIL you can Import CSV files into Google Calendar

This is particularly handy if you mapped out an event or trip in Google Sheets but want it in Google Calendar as well.

Hive Five 195 - A Better Web Is Possible

Leaking Text Nodes with CSS, ZwinK is Back, How Do Browsers Work, Forward-Deployed Engineers, and more...

Hive Five 194 - How The Internet You Loved Died

The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books, The Darkest Side of Bug Bounty, Amazon Paid $2.1M+ in Bounties, Buy-For-Life Gear, The Internet's Best Festival, and more...

Bee-side 193 - Tactile Delight

Virtual monitor for screen sharing, 33 ways to find your next $10k/month startup idea, and more.

Bee-side 192 - Eight Habits of Effective Bridge-Builders

Internet-Wide Recon, AI Web Crawling, AI-powered teaching assistant, and more

Bee-side 191 - Language Agents: From Reasoning to Acting

Ghibli-inspired living, Celebrity Workouts, and Beyond Shadow IT.

Hive Five 193 - Simplifiers Go Far, Complexifiers Get Stuck

From email spoof to backdoor in Zendesk, Only 0.5% of the Global Top 200 Websites Use Valid HTML, the WordPress drama continues, Markdown as Mindmaps, and more...

Hive Five 192 - AI Algorithms Encode Human Bias

CSP Bypass Search, Cursor Team discussing the Future of Programming with AI, Giving Away $22 Million, Using JavaScript in iOS Shortcuts, and more...

Social Media Tip: Automate Your iPhone's Volume Control

Enter Shortcuts, the unsung hero of iPhone productivity. With a few taps, you can create an automation that automatically lowers your volume when you open specific apps.

Hive Five 191 - It's More Fun To Be Competent

Guide To Subdomain Takeovers 2.0, Learning 101: The Untaught Basics, Work is Meaningless, The Art of Saying No, Microsoft Incident Response Ninja Hub, and more...

Fuzzy Search Keybindings in LazyVim

TIL: LazyVim's Hidden Gem - space + s + k for Searchable Keybindings

Bee-side 190 - The pursuit of a "God Model" in AI

Email unsubscribe AI agent, The Untapped Bug Bounty Landscape of IoT, The Ultimate Guide to Prompting, and more

Bee-side 188 - Hell Yeah or No

Free Public APIs, The Design of Everyday Things, Cancellation of OWASP San Francisco Developer Days, and more...

Bee-side 189 - Complete Guide To Freelance Web Development

Cursor-security-clone, Old-school marketing, and more...

Hive Five 190 - Whatever You Think Your Limits Are, You’re Wrong

Beyond XSS, Console Cowboys, How to be More Productive on your iPhone, and more...

Debugging LazyVim's Root Directory Behavior

If at first you don't succeed, dust yourself off and try again.

Bee-side 187 - Founder mode

From zero to FAANG, Creating a full Mac app with Cursor Composer, and more..

Hive Five 189 - Do it because you can’t not.

The Art of Recon, How To Start a Startup, The Effects of Generative AI on High Skilled Work, Tiny Trick & Experiments, and more...

Finding Bugs With Nuclei: Templates, Resources, and Tools

Collection of 40,000+ Nuclei templates, Extracting Data from Targets, Using Nuclei for OSINT, and more...

My Current Favorite AI Prompt

Hive Five 188 - You Are The Future

Supercharge Your Writing With AI, Do It Now mantra, URL validation bypass cheat sheet, and more...

Hive Five 187 - Hacker Mode

A roundup of every Hacker Summer Camp AI Talk, Bypassing airport security via SQL injection, Misconception about the nature of work, and more...

Bee-side 186 - Future-Proof Your Career in the Age of AGI

3 Bad Habits Holding You Back from Financial Freedom, Best Things at DEF CON 32, and more...

Hive Five 186 - Calling All Hackers

Phrack is Back, Monke's Guide to Bug Bounty Methodology, The Red Team Dream, AI-powered Git Commits, and more...

Bee-side 185 - Short Consideration Span > Short Attention Spans

All-in-one OSINT tool to analyze any website, Pieter Levels SEO AI strategy, Engaging Educational Kids Apps, and more...

Bee-side 184 - How to Write Like Warren Buffett

$3m Bugcrowd bug bash industry record, COVID prevention routine, Explore AI startup ideas and business opportunities, and more...

Hive Five 185 - Mis/Disinformation in 2024

How JavaScript-first frontend culture broke US public services, All things DEF CON 32, Setup VSCode Like Neovim, and more...

Hive Five 184 - Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

How To Use AI Effectively, Confusion and Web-Timing Attacks, Awesome WHOIS Resources, and much more...

Bee-side 183 - What People Get Wrong About Imposter Syndrome

Remove Stopwords w/ Golang, Retrieve Deleted Tweets, Access Data From Private Repos, AI Winter, and more...

Bee-side 182 - Move Fast and Break Everything

Haskell Learning Resources, How To Build a 7-figure Course, Zettelkasten Method, Exploring Joe Rogan, Event-Driven Pentest Scanner, and more...

Extracting a Single Page from a PDF on macOS

Streamlining Tweet Creation from Markdown

A Bash Script and Espanso Magic

Hive Five 183 - Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons

The Little Bug That Could, YouTube MasterClass, System-Driven Strategy for Consistent Growth, Second-Level Thinking, and more...

Hive Five 182 - The Great Recalibration

AI Compliments, Timeshielding, A Large Horse, Setting Up a Computer for a Kid, 10 AI Business Ideas, and more...

Bee-Side 181 - How to be Invisible Online

Hacking Tinder, Making $10K as a Student, BrainGPT, FBI Most Wanted Tracking, and more...

Hive Five 181 - What the Dying Teach the Living

Innovative Recon Tool: Lemma, AI Tooling for Software Engineers in 2024, Embrace Action Over Perfection, 12-Minute Foundation Training, and more...

Bee-side 180 - How to be Invisible Online

Silently Install Chrome Extension For Persistence, Google's open-source Emoji font, DDoSing ruins Domain Reputation, and more...

Bee-side 179 - CLI Note-taking Apps

Motorcycle Ergonomics Simulator, Powerful Alternative to Google Keyword Planner, The Effective Engineer, and more...

Hive Five 180 - Fighting bots is fighting humans

How to reduce your screen time by 80%, JSON parser inconsistencies,

Caffeinate Your Mac

The command line barista you didn't know you had

Hive Five 179 - Gen AI: Too much spend, too little benefit?

Pixel Fonts, Web3 Learning Path, Top Life-Improving Decisions, Learn Python in 30 Days, and more...

Bee-side 178 - Leveraging AI to Rank #1 on Search Engines

5000+ free icons for Mac, MongoDB NoSQL injection, DEF CON Bug Bounty Village, and more...

Hive Five 178 - Slow Down To Achieve More

What if we use AI to think more instead of less, AI Engineer World's Fair 2024, How To Reinvent Your Life In 4 Months, and more...

Bee-side 176 - The Start of Summer

Ruby on Rails in 100 Seconds, Find Tech Jobs with Low Competition, Favorite Figma Plugins, CyanVoxel Obsidian Vault Tour and more...

Bee-side 177 - Software Quality is Declining

Navigating Lay Offs, Common Practices, RSS Club, and more...

Hive Five 177 - Mastering the Balance Point

Threat Detection Engineering Interviews, 5 High-Income Skills for Students, Outline Speedrunning, and more...

What's Buzzin' - The Best of InfoSec, Tech, and Productivity of May 2024

5 Most Popular resources, Hive Five newsletters, Premium content, and My Latest Work.

Hive Five 176 - Experts vs. Imitators

Career growth framework, .js Files Are Your Friends, What’s Going on With CVE-2024-4577, Roger Federer Commencement address, Exploiting ML models with pickle file attacks, and more...

Bee-side 175 - Time management cheat sheet

Wappcaidolayzer, The Art of Bypassing WAFs, OSINT Chrome extensions, and more...

Twitter / X Search Query for Following Bug Bounty Platform Updates

Hive Five 175 - Search is dead — long live curation

Cool URIs don't change, The Power of Open-Source, Local-first software movement, and more...

Bee-side 174 - How the 1% Think

Building a 26TB Offsite Backup Server, the NEW 2024 Framework Laptop 13, Ruby pro tip, and more...

Bee-side 173 - Buffers and Bites: Digging Into Code and Cuisine

Sasori Puppeteer crawler, Open-Source Mac App Cleaner, Hybrid deployments, and more...

Hive Five 174 - Dominate with LLMs: The Insider Playbook

Hacking Millions of Modems, Google's search algorithm leak, Kingpin hacks time to recover millions of Bitcoin, and more...

Hive Five 173 - Where Are The Builders?

When privacy expires, NahamCon 2024 Workshops, Dealing with Uncertainty, and more...

Bee-side 172 - Beware of these hacks in 2024

Community Impact: Insights from The Obama Foundation, Neovim plugin: leap.nvim, and more...

Bee-side 171 - Go Where You Don’t Belong

Books that covers 90% of what matters today, Must-watch Documentaries, and more...

Hive Five 172 - The Worst Website In The Entire World

Exploring secret web hacking knowledge, Messy thinking > Clear thinking, NahamCon2024, The Rise Of The Generalist, and more ...

Bee-side 170 - 2024 AI & Business Report

Copilot Workspace, Meta Llama 3, Underrated Neovim plugins, and more

Hive Five 171 - The Power of Recon

BetterHelp sharing personal data, iPad > MacBook, the Anti-To-Do list, and more...

Hive Five 170 - No Web Without Women

The great intergenerational theft, 10 Things Your First Security Hire Shouldn’t Do, and more...

What's Buzzin' - The Best of InfoSec, Tech, and Productivity of April 2024

Top 5 Most Popular links, Hive Five newsletters, Premium content, and My Latest Work.

Bee-side 169 - From the Transistor to the Web Browser

Hive Five 169 - Excellent Advice for Living

Human-Centered AI Index Report 2024, Hacking Google's AI system, and more...

Improving my Beehiiv Search Experience

Leverage the Beehiiv API and the CLI to easily search, manage, and share your (newsletter) posts.

The Hyperkey: One Key To Rule Them All

Supercharge your keyboard workflow

Bee-side 168 - Complexity comes with skill and time

2024 Developer Stacks, Hidden Investments, and more...

Every Public Bug Bounty Program At Your Fingertips

A Raycast extension to improve bug bounty efficiency

Bee-side 167 - How To Supercharge Your Focus

Non-AI projects, Plugin Eco-Systems, and more...

Hive Five 168 - They Want Your Data? EFF That.

HTTP Toolkit, 60 Hacking Commands You Need to Know, AI music platform Suno is just the beginning, and more...

What's Buzzin' - The Best of Security and Tech of March 2024

Top 10 most visited links, Hive Five newsletters, and Premium content

Hive Five 167 - The internet is ours

Discover the secrets of LLM security, 9 Ways to Get Ahead of 99% of People, and more...

Bee-side 166 - Are You Living or Just Existing?

Small bets, Gathering Structures, Rediscovering Ikigai, and more...

Hive Five 166 - Mastery: Languages, Burp Suite, and APIs

Node.js documentary, hunting down bullsh*t, IDORs and more...

Bee-side 165 - Using Your Imperfections To Build Your Dream Life

Hive Five 165 - AppSec is fine

Sam Curry and friends hack the planet, Docker Security, and RCEs

Bee-side 164 - Becoming Anti-Fragile

Stop letting negative things overshadow your mindset

Hive Five 164 - Craftsmanship is timeless

How to become a Wikipedian, Deception Engineering, and Open-Source Software

Bee-side 163 - Creativity is the greatest tool in hacking

Hundreds of curated links that didn't make it into the weekly Hive Five newsletter.

Hive Five 163 – Learn to build, then learn to break

Top 10 free OSINT tools, detect secrets in video content, $50k Google AI Hack

Inside the Hive - Feb 2024

February roundup of what I’ve created: 5 free resources, 4 premium ones, and a new thumbnail

Bee-side 162 - Is perfectionism a form of cowardice?

Hundreds of curated links that didn't make it into the weekly Hive Five newsletter.

Hive Five 162 – Go Go Bug Bounty Gadgets

How to use Fabric (AI augmentation), Top 10 Hacking Techniques, and more

How to do Code Review: Find Vulnerabilities in Software

Hands-on exercises, informative reads, insights from industry experts, and engaging video content

Bee-side 161

Bullshit hunting, Axiom Pro, and Career Secrets

Hive Five 161 – Your Security Program Is Sh*t

Morning routines, Client-Side Security, and Autonomous Hacking LLM Agents

Bee-side 160

Framebusters, Hidden Prompt Injections, and more

Hive Five 160 – Sisyphus and the Impossible Dream

The HTTP Garden, Rust Won't Save Us, and Work on Interesting Problems

Bee-side 159

Delve into hundreds of curated links that didn't make it into the newsletter.

Hive Five 159 – Using Data Science to win Bug Bounty

Hive Five 158 – Is it possible to have privacy in 2024?

Rook to XSS, Obsidian 2024 gem winners, CVEmap, and more...

Hive Five 157 - LLM: Full Stack Bootcamp & Web Attacks

Setup 2024 post

A list of my setup, gear, and software.

Hive Five 156 - Hack Your Life using AI

Hive Five + Beehiiv =

Hive Five 155 - Adversarial Machine Learning

Hive Five 154 - Pipe Dreams

Hive Five 153 - How to Make 2024 The Best Year of Your Life

Hive Five 152 - Never feed a beast you don't want to grow

Hive Five 151 - It’s later than you think

Hive Five 150 - A Journey to Mastery

Hive Five 149 - Hacking is a survival skill

Hive Five 148 - The OG Bug Bounty King

Hive Five 147 - Take up space

Hive Five 146 - What needs to stay human?

Hive Five 145 - Using Discord Bots for OSINT Investigations

Hive Five 144 - Change is inevitable

Hive Five 143 - The hacker’s guide to securing your organization

Hive Five 142 - Hacking Full Time

Hive Five 141 - There’s work and there’s your life’s work

Hive Five 140 - A new recon source: DuckDuckGo Tracker Radar

Hive Five 139 - Challenges and Benefits of the Bug Bounty Ecosystem

Hive Five 138 - From 0 to $100k in one year of bug bounty

Hive Five 137 - Mining Massive Datasets

Hive Five 136 - The Prompt Injection Primer for Engineers

Hive Five 135 - The A.I. Dilemma

Hive Five 134: Smashing the State Machine

Hive Five 133 - How to Study Bug Bounty Hunting

Hive Five 132 - The key to succeed in bug bounty

Hive Five 131 - The Art of Deception

Hive Five 130 - New JavaScript analysis tools, and DEFCON advice

Hive Five 129 - I miss the old internet

Hive Five 128 - The Rise of the AI Engineer

Hive Five 127 - Authentication vulnerabilities, Hacking Google Cloud, and Wordlists

Hive Five 126 - NahamCon2023, Networking Fundamentals, and Pioneering The Bug Bounty Platform

Hive Five 125 - When you lie for a living, AI dark ages, and AppSecSchool

Hive Five 124 - Scraping Kit and the Benefits of Creating in Public

Hive Five 123 - 100 Bug Bounty rules and Burp Suite Pro tips & tricks talk v2

Hive Five 122 - STÖK is back, WTF is information disclosure, and a $1MM bounty

Hive Five 121 - IIS Auth Bypass, Securing AI, and making 100k in 2 months

Hive Five 120 - Don’t be the best. Be the only.

Hive Five 119 - Deep Dive OSINT and Finding XSS in a Million Websites

Hive Five 118 - Easiest beginner bugs, the Anatomy of Autonomy, and BrokenSesame

Hive Five 117 - Procmon for macOS, Attacking LLM, and MalDev Academy

Hive Five 116 - Creating with Git, CodeQL zero to hero, and Websocket are a pain

Hive Five 115 - AI models become a threat to hackers, 2023 Web Hacking Roadmap, and why DNS always breaks the internet

Hive Five 114 - How to Lose a Pentester in 10 days, Badsecrets, and Account Takeover in OpenAI

Hive Five 113 - How to Hack: A Step-by-Step Journey, acropalypse, and 25 years of curl

Hive Five 112 - NahamSec quit recon, Top Web3 developer mistakes, and a Docker clinic

Hive Five 111 - Roadmap to Pentester success, and how to explain a layoff

Hive Five 110 - Nuclei Foundation Series, OWASP needs to evolve, and Share the Spotlight

Hive Five 109 – Find Linux Kernel bugs and Escape, How to Bug Bounty in 2023, Server-side prototype pollution

Hive Five 108 – Bug Bounty Hunter Mindset, Android Malware Analysis course, and the Power of CSS injection

Hive Five 107 – The Anti-Recon Recon Club, Till REcollapse, and Privacy Guides.

Hive Five 106 – Fearless CORS, JavaScript Analysis, and Subdomain Takeovers

Hive Five 105 – Mastering Broken Access Control and An Ethical Hacker's Guide

Hive Five 104 – 2022 High-Profile Breaches & 2023 Security Recommendations

Hive Five 103 – 2022 CVE data review and bypass firewalls with of-CORs

Hive Five 102 – Running a Mastodon server, Reverse Prompt Engineering, and 2022 reviews

A better way to use Twitter

Inspirational hip-hop wallpaper

How to start bug bounty for beginners

Essential bug bounty books for beginners and pros

The best bug bounty recon methodology (May 2024)

22 videos that show you how to best approach recon.

Hive Five 101 – Read the Bleeping RFC, Meth to Netflix, and Speedrunning Web3 Bug Hunts

Hive Five 100 – 2022 OSCP study guide, command-line data-wrangling, and offsec tools

Hive Five 99 – Ethical hacking in 15 hours, the secret of bug bounty automation, and exploring prompt injection attacks

Hive Five 98 – Car vulnerabilities, hacking on a plane, and AI inception

Hive Five 97 – Email Graffiti, The anatomy of a MP4 file, and Learning lockpicking while blind, divergent, and more

Hive Five 96 – How to build a cloud hacking lab, the return of NahamSec, and remediation archeology

Hive Five 95 – What is a server, hiring resources, and a Twitter refugee’s guide to Mastodon

Hive Five 94 – XSS Hunter is being deprecated, what sucks about recon, and DevOps is bullshit

Hive Five 93 – Supercharge your hacking, web app checklist, and community

Hive Five 92 – Why web tech is like this, Chrome browser exploitation, and hacker healthcare

Hive Five 91 – Live Hacking Event tips, the ultimate Nuclei guide, and a unique subdomain enumeration method

Hive Five 90 – Taking control of your time, RCE via GitHub import, and the origin of XSS

Hive Five 89 – Never dupe again, best bugs people have found, and hacking Google

Hive Five 88 – The Age of Universal XSS, and One Takeover to Rule Them All

Hive Five 87 - How to turn security research into profit, How a teenager hacked Uber, and Creating a CTF challenge

Hive Five 86 – Mental Hacking, Fast-Foodification, and Firefox OOB to RCE

Hive Five 85 – Three JavaScript Security Legends & Full-time bug bounty vs Salaried position

Hive Five 84 – Let's Hack GraphQL, A ‘Master Class’ in Bug Bounty, and How to Be Happy

Hive Five 83 – How to prepare for a tech talk, IDORs and UUIDs, and Web Hacker’s Weapons

Hive Five 82 – Must-watch talks at DEFCON, how to become an expert, and how to ask and get a yes

Hive Five 81 – Self-Learning Reverse Engineering in 2022, Hacker Summer Camp, and Interstitial Journaling

Hive Five 80 – Most common smart contract vulnerabilities, practical deep learning course, and ProjectDiscovery’s Best Kept Secrets

Hive Five 79 – Mediocre security engineers and Empathy as a Service

Press and hold keys in Obsidian Vim mode for OSX

Hive Five 78 – Dirty dancing, Reversing Malware, and Dorking on Steroids

Hive Five 77 – Virtual Sticker Swap, Bot Bounty, and Mid-Year Reflection & Planning

Hive Five 76 – Millions of secrets exposed, focus rituals, become a Nmap pro

Hive Five 75 – InfoSec: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Hive Five 74 – Emulating Reality, Linking Your Thinking, and Data Engineers

Hive Five 73 – Best new infosec projects, how to add value, web hacking summer school

Hive Five 72 – Learning Blockchain, Delegating, running Docker without Docker Desktop

Hive Five 71 – First Times

Hive Five 70 – Anti-fragile

Hive Five 69 – I am. All of us.

Hive Five 68 – Blessed

Hive Five 67 – The more you know

Hive Five 66 – How to Take Over the World

Hive Five 65 – Nahomies

Hive Five 64 – Ego is the enemy

Hive Five 63 – The Power of Now

Hive Five 62 - Valuable lessons

Hive Five 61 – Remember the Pac-Man rule

Hive Five 60 - Start with Why

Hive Five 59 – Stay curious

Hive Five 58 – Eyes on the future

Hive Five 57 – Saved You One Click

Hive Five 56 – When Hip-Hop Was Young

Hive Five 55 – Nightingale

Hive Five 54 – Calling Bullshit

Hive Five 53 – Can't Hurt Me

Hive Five 52 – Tools & Craft

Hive Five 51 – Happy New Year

Hive Five 50 – The internet runs on free open-source software

Hive Five 49 – Cyber Santa & Giveaways

Hive Five 48 - Duplicates

Hive Five 47 – Parkinson’s Law

Hive Five 46 - Melliferous

Hive Five 45 – The Alchemist

Hive Five 44 – Hyper scheduling

Hive Five 43 – Magic

Hive Five 42 – Man's search for meaning

Hive Five 41 – Light The Night

Hive Five 40 – Extreme Ownership

Bug bounty and other inclusive communities

Hive Five #39 – Green lights

Hive Five 38 – The Art of Not Giving a F*ck

Hive Five #37 - Make it rain

Hive Five #36 – Eat the frog

Hive Five #35 – Just do it

Information security news resources

Hive Five #34 – Queen bee

Hive Five #33 – Live life

Hive Five #32 - Introductions and infographics

Hive Five #31 - DEFCON and friends

Hive Five #30 – The Beekeeper's Bible

Hive Five #29 – The last dance

Hive Five #28 – Hunt for jobs like a hacker

Hive Five #27 – Recon master, ransomwhere, and AWS

Hive Five #26 – DOM XSS, voicemail ATO, and 10K4ILF

Hive Five #25 – Open redirects, experience, and being okay

Hive Five #24 – Heroes, good vibes, and cache money

Hive Five #23 – Grateful, curious, and cautious

Hive Five #22 – Meritocracy, Methodology, and Managing

Hive Five #21 – Marriage, Systems, and Milestones

Hive Five #20 – Low Hanging Fruit and Peaches

Hive Five #19 – Be Stubborn, Invitations, and How to Create Luck

Hive Five #18 – Spring, Bugs, and the Crowd

Hive Five #17 – GitHub policy change, zines, and staying healthy

Hive Five #16 – Helping India, lifting each other up, and How To Start Bug Bounty

Hive Five #15 – Protect Linux server from hackers, the power of being a misfit, and bee facts

Hive Five #14 "Don't think or judge, just listen." ― Sarah Dessen

Hive Five #13 “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.” ― Allen Saunders

NahamSec interview Todayisnew

NahamSec interviews masonhck357

Hive Five #12 “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.” ― Robert Frost

Must-watch infosec talks of 2020

Hive Five #11 - “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” — Stephen Hawking

NahamSec interview Jason Haddix

Hive Five #10 - “If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” — Proverb

Hive Five #9 - "We cannot retrofit privacy" — Sarah Harvey

Hive Five #8 - “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

Hive Five #7 - “Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?” ― Danielle LaPorte

Hive Five #6 - “Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.” ― Roy T. Bennett

Bee meets world - a web journey

Hive Five #5 - "We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us." ― Marshall McLuhan

Hive Five #4 - “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt

Hive Five #3 - “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” ― William Shakespeare

Hive Five #2 - "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." ― Oscar Wilde

Hive Five #1 - “The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.” ― Marcus Aurelius

NahamSec interview Rhok

NahamSec interviews Alyssa Herrera

NahamSec interview Filedescriptor

NahamSec interview Jobert Abma

NahamSec interview Naffy

NahamSec interviews Albinowax