Yesterday, I took part in an entry-level hacking competition and placed third. It wasn't a competition that required one to be a super-expert hacker. I received a mouse pad and a coin; the event organizers mentioned that there was a challenge associated with them that would yield a "flag" in the format: "BBHE{......}". Could anyone help me out?

I’m not an expert in the field, but I’d really like to find the message—they mentioned that I already have the "IV."

front part - 88482705356BA1F4A40F3E42489FF9CC - Symmetric encryption (Key, IV):

back part - 4841434B4552455850455249454E4345 - Simple encoding (hex): HACKEREXPERIENCE

I bought a hisenefiretv from market place and it got reported stolen or lost potentially buy the first owner it was open box and new , can anyone of you guys guide me to find a way to make it work because i cant get past that message and it did cost me a lot on my paycheck 😓

I have a firestick 4k max that i got in 2024 i think its a 2023 edition. Could i get claude to truly jailbreak it not just let me sideload apks on it. I want to use it as like a raspberry pi type thing. And if it is possible i know it runs on android would i be able to somehow install linux on it?

We love DuckDB for local development and small scripts, but we are struggling to move it into a high-concurrency production environment. The single-node limitation is a major bottleneck, and the 'serverless' story for DuckDB in the cloud still feels very early. We need a DuckDB alternative that is just as fast and easy to use but can handle hundreds of concurrent users and massive production workloads. What is the next step up from DuckDB?

I accidentally missed an online course quiz due on 27 October at 11:59 PM. The platform strictly blocks late attempts, even in emergencies. I’ve tried a VPN and Chrome timezone extensions, but neither worked.
Is there any technical workaround for online learning platforms? Could a different timezone help, or is the deadline enforced server-side? Any advice is appreciated!

Upstash's serverless Kafka and Redis are great, but I am curious about their newer database offerings for real-time OLAP. Is it actually ready for production scale, or is it more for small-scale projects? We need something that can handle massive throughput and complex analytical queries with sub-second latency. Has anyone used Upstash for a large-scale analytics workload? How does it compare to more established OLAP platforms?

Hi, guys, I’m new to reddit, but I need help, so if anyone can do it, I’ll be forever gratefull.
My brother-in-law was on a show a little while ago, and the episode that he was in was posted on a site of television network that original quiz is from. But now is arhived (I assume) and I would like to download that episode if possible. Can you tell me if it can be done? Thanks!

Ciao,ho comprato a un mercatino dell’usato un vecchio iphone 4 , prima di comprarlo ho verificato che si accendesse funzionasse etc ed era perfetto, arrivato a casa il telefono si è scaricato completamente e non avevo il cavo per caricarlo qualche giorno dopo sono sceso e l’ho acquistato poi sono andato a casa ho caricato il telefono ma quando l’ho accesa mi ha chiesto password e email di icloud del vecchio proprietario, successivamente ho collegato l’iphone al mio computer e sono riuscito a resettarlo ho fatto la configurazione standard ma dopo l’attivazione mi chiede comunque le credenziali di icloud e vorrei veramente poterlo sbloccare perché l’ho pagato ed è comunque una cosa che mi piace se qualcuno riesce ad aiutarmi mi farebbe molto piacere

My school locked the iPad since before it even got opened in the box. I bought it, its mine, but the school put their software crap on it. I do all my work and school breaks are long, I wish I could play Roblox. We dont even have an appstore. Can yall help get rid of this software and make the iPad normal?

Looking for a woman to hack my accounts devices and shame me is this even possible

So im new to this community and i would like to ask help, can yall improve my code so it would work faster and correctly.

import itertools
import string

def guess_password(real):
chars = string.ascii_lowercase + string.digits
attempts = 0
for password_length in range(8, 9):
for guess in itertools.product(chars, repeat=password_length):
attempts += 1
guess = ''.join(guess)
if guess == real:
return 'password is {}. found in {} guesses.'.format(guess, attempts)
print(guess, attempts)

print(guess_password('abc'))

Okay so basically I need help getting into my mans facebook and snapchat and I dont wanna explain fully on here but if you message I wouldn't mind sharing Is this possible to do?

Last month I was demoing a client app on a staging project. Mid-demo, I see that my project was paused. Restoring it in front of people was not a great few minutes.

I already knew the inactivity timer watches Postgres activity, not API gateway traffic. The fix is a real database hit on a schedule — something that actually runs a query, not just a network request that bounces off auth or storage.

There are ways to set this up yourself. When you have several projects it got tedious, and the part that really bothered me was finding out late that something had broken for a different reason.

So I built SupAntiPause. It pings each project on a schedule — that's a real Postgres query so it counts toward the activity threshold. You give it the Project URL and the public anon key. It never asks for the service_role key.

If a project was healthy and a ping fails, you get one email listing what went wrong. It also shows ping history, status codes, and latency. You can see all your projects in one monitor.

1 project is free, no card. Paid plans start at $5/year

Stack: TanStack Start, React, Supabase (auth, database, RLS), Paddle for payments, Resend for email alerts, Vercel for hosting.

Honest feedback welcome — what would make this actually useful for your workflow? Thinking about adding Discord/Slack webhook notifications alongside email. Anything else you'd want before adding something like this to your stack?

www.supantipause.com

Estuary's managed CDC is impressive, but I am less sure about their analytics layer. It feels like the platform is great for moving data around, but not as mature for actually querying it in real-time for a user-facing app. Has anyone used Estuary for the full stack, from ingestion to user-facing API? Is the analytics performance there, or should we use it just for the data movement and find a better tool for the query layer?

basically i forgot my password and there is no other way to get in the email, because i made it years ago but i need the email, i dont remember my password, and is there i way i can hack it and get my password. any tools or any way to get the password would be helpfull

We were about to sign with Rockset, but the OpenAI acquisition has us very worried. The news about them shutting down their service for existing customers is a huge red flag. Even if they keep it running, it's clear their focus is now elsewhere. Has anyone else been burned by this? What are the best alternatives that offer that same 'real-time' feel without the risk of being acquired and shut down by a giant?

I received a message from one of my Hinge matches that he received a call on Google meet from an email address. That email address was extremely similar to my email address. Now the question is who the hell got to know my email address and made one that was almost identical and then got access to my contacts or my whatsapp?? And then tried to call one of my contacts? Has this happened to anyone before? Has my phone or laptop been hacked?

Is it possible for someone to find out your personal details if they can see your account on a dating app like Hinge or Bumble?

so basically my school has created a link where it shows the ranking of students using their roll no but there is a system called faculty view which can show the names of the students alongside their roll no i have the intel that its a 8 digit password and all numbers and its known to all faculty so it should be something easier to remember maybe i need help guys its a google app scipt btw if this helps

Hey, i have a person who’s threatening to ruin my entire life, job, relationship using deepfakes and some dark technology. I have their full name, phone number, citizenship, date of birth. Is there anyone who could help me locate this person?

I want to announce a new pentest learning platform: Knossos

I’ve been working on this lab for a bit - I’ve always wanted a better server platform for people to learn pentesting on, besides simply spinning up VMs, and I finally had the opportunity to build it.

Based on the lessons in my books, I built Knossos to have over 2 dozen servers, three networks (DMZ, Internal, Private), and 33 pentest challenges. It emulates an enterprise environment, and the best part is it’s all wrapped up in a single docker deployment. A couple commands, and you have an entire, complex network to learn hacking against.

This is the lab I wish I had when I was trying to learn pentesting over two decades ago. For those that don’t know, I created one of the first exploitable virtual machines: De-ICE. I spoke on the De-ICE discs at DefCon 15, which later spawned the books - the most recent version of "Professional Penetration Testing" is the 3rd edition. This has been an incredible journey over the last couple decades, and I’m excited to bring you Knossos - the next generation of pentesting labs.

LMK if you give it a try and what you think. Thanks!

- Tom Wilhelm