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What Happened to HackerOne?

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Re: What Happened to HackerOne?

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Post by rvz »

Jommi wrote: post #65
MikeNotThePope wrote: post #45

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Buying stable coins is a mild pain because so many banks think crypto is radioactive. Then you have to wait for your deposited funds to completely settle before you can withdraw the crypto from your account and send it elsewhere. Doable, sure. Easy & convenient, not so much. I wouldn't call it a solved problem in the same way you can hand someone cash, tap to pay with your phone, or pay by scanning a QR Code.

Not anymore! Most places allow this very easily now.

Exactly. Revolut is a bank that allows cryptocurrencies.

HN really is living in their own bubble.

Re: What Happened to HackerOne?

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Post by icantevenhold »

onion2k wrote: post #38
ralph84 wrote: post #32

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Presidents club is a standard way to reward top performing sales reps across many industries. It doesn't indicate anything other than the company is trying to reward and retain their top sales reps. Engineers who find it distasteful should be happy to know engineers typically get way more equity than sales reps.

Engineers who find it distasteful should be happy to know engineers typically get way more equity than sales reps. That isn't true. Early sales employees ('customer success', 'technical sales', 'growth', maybe product roles) get just as much equity as engineers who join at a similar time. The difference is that engineers often join earlier, with the commensurate risk that comes with. Also equity rarely pays out so yo…

Technical sales and customer growth also don’t get the cut of sales that usually the actual sales reps do.

In general i think sales reps make more money overall but have a much more stressful job and can get axed whenever they underperform for a quarter etc

Re: What Happened to HackerOne?

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Post by H4lcyon »

dualvariable wrote: post #36

Bug bounty programs were overrun with low-effort slop nearly a decade before LLMs were introduced; I can't imagine what they're like now...

You don't want to. It's exactly as bad as you think. I would say ~90% of reports are false now as opposed to ~40% before LLMs.

Re: What Happened to HackerOne?

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Post by ygouzerh »

paradox460 wrote: post #16

Sending the sales team on a paid vacation to a tropical paradise while the engineering product flounders is such a perfect representation of corporate rot it sounds like something out of a Mike Judge movie

This one looks shocking on the outside indeed! It's however a sales HR practice: lower salary and commission, but use the alluring treat that top performers will have a special exclusive trip at the end of the year. Many are crazy for it.

It's more a reward for a competition-style work mindset.

Re: What Happened to HackerOne?

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Post by yieldcrv »

human slop

tl;dr which begins 3,000 words in: employees were noticed to be leaving and it’s because a “fine tuning from user submissions” ai psychosis of yesteryear, except it’s amusingly happening in 2026 still. Investigation into the veracity of the claims.

Re: What Happened to HackerOne?

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Post by gbrindisi »

Sytten wrote: post #37

I am in this space. The reality is that the margins for a Bug Bounty Hunting platform are not good, triage is very expensive specially with all the AI slop that gets submitted now. You can hide it for a long time with VC money, but they need to diversify their product line to continue growing and compete against the AI pentest compagnies (which themselves will also diversify as AI pentest becomes a feature and not th…

I agree. They have quality data to build an effective AI pentest product that is good enough, and they already have a good offering to bundle that into and satisfy enterprise demand.

Up and coming AI pentest companies need to have an exceptional product to get a chance to stand on their own and penetrate the enterprise market, otherwise their best scenario is an acquisition to get bundled into an established platform.

Re: What Happened to HackerOne?

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Post by EraYaN »

tptacek wrote: post #25
codexon wrote: post #23

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it isn't simple request flooding, it is application level resource exhaustion

Yeah, I figured that's what you meant, and most bounty programs won't pay out for stuff like that. Every application has those bugs; on a software pentest, we'd sev:lo them.

Some of them can have 1 rpi take down a full 100 node cluster, so sure sev:lo but the cyber insurance often want them fixed anyway. But it will probably take it happening before C-suite decides that 0 revenue is a problem.

Re: What Happened to HackerOne?

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Post by stavros »

rvz wrote: post #91
Jommi wrote: post #65

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Not anymore! Most places allow this very easily now.

Exactly. Revolut is a bank that allows cryptocurrencies. HN really is living in their own bubble.

No it doesn't. You can gamble with it, but it doesn't let you own or send it.
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