1 bug, $50k in bounties, a Zendesk backdoor(gist.github.com)

1542 points by mmsc 2 years ago | 400 comments

A GitHub Gist write-up by a 15-year-old bug hunter describing a Zendesk bug affecting many Fortune 500 companies that earned over $50,000 in bounties.

A Node, TypeScript, TS-Node and ESM experience that works(gist.github.com)

164 points by khalidx 2 years ago | 183 comments

Hofstadter on Lisp (1983)(gist.github.com)

360 points by Eric_WVGG 2 years ago | 204 comments

A GitHub Gist reproducing Douglas Hofstadter's 1983 Scientific American introduction to Lisp, "Atoms and Lists," from Metamagical Themas.

LMDB: The first version of Redis, written in Tcl (2009)(gist.github.com)

180 points by avinassh 3 years ago | 61 comments

Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them(gist.github.com)

513 points by jeffbee 1 year ago | 323 comments

A GitHub Gist explaining how rebuilding Ubuntu's jq package from the same source with different build options yields about 90% better performance.

Hello-World iOS App in Assembly(gist.github.com)

162 points by pabs3 1 year ago | 55 comments