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1. Agreed+Wh[view] [source] 2025-11-13 13:40:14
>>alexkr+(OP)
As someone who is part of the Hack Club community, I would urge caution before blindly trusting this account.

- This person has also used their access to attempt to extort the admins and their Airtable data, demanding a bounty payment for access they were previously given. - In her arguments about the program leads earning higher bounties, they had said that they both did bounties for Coinbase and Google, neither of which being non-profits - Many of her arguments are flawed in other ways.

Theo (yes the ffmpeg guy) also commented on it in a livestream, and I would just point to that:

> This feels really in the weeds of something we are not supposed to see externally. It is a lot of writing for what seems like clueless people doing backend

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2. rlmine+jj2[view] [source] 2025-11-14 00:40:14
>>Agreed+Wh
As someone who is/was also a part of the hack club community, this article is mostly correct. I've seen most of these events occur second hand as well in real time and can mostly corroborate with the accuracy of the article, except the minors in legal roles part. The community is severely mismanaged, data leaks happen often in very predicable ways and it does seem as if much of it is symptoms of vibe coding.
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