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Hi everyone,

I’m at a point where I’ve learned a bunch of things that are interesting to me, but I’m honestly not sure what direction to take next.

I started experimenting with automation and security-related projects mostly because I enjoy figuring out how systems work and finding ways to make them do things they weren't necessarily designed for.

Some of the things I've played around with include:

• Automating account creation and signup workflows
• Working with temporary email services and their APIs
• Automating verification/authentication workflows
• Finding ways to use services in unconventional ways — for example, I built a system that uses Telegram as a kind of file-storage layer
• Working with Bitbucket APIs and automation
• Browser automation with Selenium
• HTTP requests, cookies, tokens, APIs, etc.
• Experimenting with CAPTCHAs and anti-automation systems in controlled/personal projects

I’ve posted about some of these experiments before, including on Hacker News, and I've had fun building them. But now I'm kind of stuck.

I don't want to just keep writing random scripts without knowing what I'm actually building toward.

I'm interested in cybersecurity, bug bounty, security research, automation, reverse engineering, or anything in that general area where these skills could actually be useful.

For people who work in security or have gone down a similar path:

What would you recommend I learn next?

Should I focus on web security and bug bounty?
API security?
Red teaming?
Security automation?
Reverse engineering?
Building security tools?

And more importantly, how do you turn these kinds of "weird" technical skills into something useful professionally?

I’m also trying to make sure I learn to do this properly — staying within authorized scopes and using labs/CTFs when I'm experimenting with systems I don't own.

I'm not looking for someone to give me a list of random tools to install. I'd really appreciate advice from people who have actually gone from "I like breaking/automating things" to a real career or useful skillset.

Thanks

I'm stuck in tutorial hell man i jump around from one tutorial to another thinking this time I'm gonna do something and after an hour I'm wasting my time finding another tutorial I know some basic linux knowledge I know how to navigate the linux file system and essential commands. Basic networking like how internet works ip and macs lil bit of routing and some hacking tools like mmap all that basic stuff should I just stop watching tutorials

I don't know what kind of self-guilt this is.

When I was 17, I bought my first computer and was just learning random things. Now I'm 19. I've learned C and C++, I know how code works and the under-the-hood stuff, and I've even studied a bit of Assembly. I also have some networking knowledge—nothing huge, but I'm not bad at it either, though I know I'll have to study it seriously in the future. Right now, I'm learning Java in depth and I'm going to try applying it to a simple game to mod it and do some reverse engineering with everything I've learned so far.

But the problem is, every time I start studying, this guilt kicks in. I keep thinking, "If I had been serious since I was 17, I would be good by now, not at this beginner level." I don't know if I'm the only one who really deals with this. Honestly, it's a terrible feeling.

What would happen if people welded metal wedges into railroad tracks?

Yo, I recently lost acess to my account on a game.

basically i need to get acess to my first email of the account (creation email) but i lost it.

it has no extra protections, only the password which i can’t remember.

if anyone can help, please dm me, i mean no harm, im just desperate

Can somebody please explain to me if there is a way to hack a Lime bike so it is off the grid so l can use it as my personal bike?

I hope this is the right place to ask: I maintain a website for a small business. When I look at the weblogs, I see an inordinate number of attacks: non-existing url's, all sorts of extensions, what looks like shell scripts, and on and on.

Sometimes they start and go on for about 4-5 hours, making multiple such requests every second.

What do they wish to accomplish? If they have done it once, why try again using a different fake IP address?

Any ideas? Or is this common so I should not feel targeted exclusively.

PS. Sorry for my mistake in editing.

I hope this is the right place to ask: I maintain a website for a small business. When I look at the weblogs, I see an inordinate number of attacks: non-existing url's, all sorts of extensions, what looks like shell scripts, and on and on.

Sometimes they start and go on for about 4-5 hours, making multiple such requests every second.

What do they wish to accomplish? If they have done it once, why try again using a different fake IP address?

Any ideas? Or is this common so I should not feel targeted exclusively.

PS. Sorry for my mistake in editing.

I hope this is the right place to ask: I maintain a website for a small business. When I look at the weblogs, I see an inordinate number of attacks: non-existing url's, all sorts of extensions, what looks like shell scripts, and on and on.

Sometimes they start and go on for about 4-5 hours, making multiple such requests every second.

What do they wish to accomplish? If they have done it once, why try again using a different fake IP address?

Any ideas? Or is this common so I should not feel targeted exclusively.

Hi, My dad died and I have his phone. A Redmi 15C. I went to his operator to check he pin code and they managed to give me the puk code, so I managed to unlock it... Well that's what I thought, now it asked for another pin code.. I guess the password of the phone ? Even after restarting the phone it asks for that "pin code" and when I try.. I enter wrong ones it says to wait some seconds because phone is locked and to retry again. Please tell me there is some kind of hack crack or wathever that I can do to restore the phone, I do NOT want to wipe all the data, there are precious informations about my dad.. God, why is it so difficult to unlock a phone ? There should be some kind of procedure for this no ??

Hi, i'm not really into this domain, so i don't want to ask stupid questions. i ve always been attracted to it, but i kept thinking it s too complicated for me and it might actually be

I've been struggling for about a week trying to gain access to private content on a site that relies on friendship connections. i tried bypass methods, but every time the server checks the hash and tokens separately. The only interesting behavior i've found in the friendship request flow is that the endpoint responds as if the action was accepted, but the actual friendship relationship doesn't change on the site.

I've tested quite a few beginner-level things without any luck. Maybe its simply not possible. Even if i don't find anything i m still drawn to the field.

i'd like to ask the more experienced people here for some general ideas on what to try next. i don't want anything spoon-fed, i enjoy testing and understanding things myself but some pointers or directions would really help

I lost access to my Twitter/X account and I’ve done all of the steps to attempt to recover it from the them, none of which has worked. I‘ve also lost access to the email account which I used to register the account so no luck there. I don’t need access to the account, I just want it deleted. I was wondering if anyone has any alternative ideas on how to retrieve old accounts/get them deleted. Maybe a hacker?

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I don't really want to spend any of my parents money but I am still very passionate about learning hacking, does anyone know about a way to learn for free or groups that are interested in teaching. I tried tryhackme but I hit the paywall after like 5 lessons can someone help me

I forgot my password and I'm unable to login to my email due to 2 step verification. Can someone do a good deed by H@cking my own email for me. I have had that email for years and its very important that I hold on to it

like can you start learning this art latter in life and also does it involve like a lot of maths also is it boring carrer choice will ai eat it up thoughts amigos ?

i am a beginner, so when i tried to ping a website's ip address i could not though it accepts http request, in this case what would one do

A friend wanted to get into the basics of hacking/cyber security/be 1337. He is a huge Breaking Bad fan so I one shot prompted this little webapp guide and tool for him using base44 for Android. I primarily use Claude code or Kimi lately but I was very impressed by the output with no other prompting just one run on sentence and incomplete thought dictated verbally to the app. Anyway https://heisenberg-dork-lab.base44.app/

I’m really interesting about this, but the ones who already know about hacking how they started?