Tech Talk is a Medium publication where startup engineers share career advice, programming tips and descriptions of their projects.
HN links it for career advice like Always Be Coding, and commenters cite it for explanations of a reCAPTCHA weakness and a startup's phone number policy.
Yes, they are.
Here's my (shameless plug) rather simple explanation of how it works.
The long and short of it though, is that only half of any given reCAPTCHA is known, and you can usually bypass it somewhat persistently by just guessing that half.
Also interesting that I attributed its function as "contributing to the common good", while I infer the intent of this post as suspicious of nefarious motives. I suppose either stance makes sense with the appropriate amount of skepticism.
https://medium.com/tech-talk/e8f2a748f95f
There are some good tips and links here, but I don't understand the "hacking" metaphor. There are no big secrets. It all comes down to the "always be coding" idea that was presented a few months ago [1]. It just takes discipline and time-management. Succeed at that and many offers will come your way.
[1] https://medium.com/tech-talk/d5f8051afce2
Hi, I'm one of the founders. We ask for your phone number to connect you with your friends. We also encrypt unique identifiers so that your friends, nor us, can ever read your content.
Read about our stance on using address books here: https://medium.com/tech-talk/4791cf1fcf0e
If you want to learn a little more about this project, read this, «Introducing Dystopia Tracker»: https://medium.com/tech-talk/introducing-dystopia-tracker-18abfccded96
This was an internal email: https://medium.com/tech-talk/1aff50f34fc
Always Be Coding (ABC): https://medium.com/tech-talk/d5f8051afce2