r/hacking is a subreddit with 3.0M members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses looking for, looking, tool, security, and hack, and they frequently recommend/review residential proxy, screen recording software, and recording software.
A subreddit dedicated to hacking and hackers.
Constructive collaboration and learning about exploits, industry standards, grey and white hat hacking, new hardware and software hacking technology, sharing ideas and suggestions for small business and personal security.
Popular Themes in r/hacking
#1
Solution Requests
: "Anyone know any good cheap tools i can buy on ali express to get a hacking kit?"
5 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "University hostel Wi-Fi is heavily restricting websites and video calls — VPNs, WARP, DoH, and DPI bypasses all fail. Is there a way around this?"
4 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "I went looking for a managed-Postgres provider. Instead, I found a vulnerability in a 4-star PostgreSQL extension available everywhere! and turned it into code execution at NeonDB, Supabase, Xata and many other PostgreSQL service companies"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/hacking
#1
Looking For
70 posts
#2
Looking
43 posts
#3
Tool
40 posts
#4
Security
25 posts
#5
Hack
13 posts
#6
Looking Team
8 posts
#7
Password
5 posts
#8
Ctf
5 posts
#9
Software
3 posts
#10
Website
3 posts
Products Discussed in r/hacking
Residential Proxy
18 reviews
#1
SmartProxy
4.5★ from 14 reviews
#2
DutaProxy
4.3★ from 4 reviews
Screen Recording Software
3 reviews
#1
OBS Studio
5.0★ from 2 reviews
#2
ShareX
5.0★ from 1 review
Recording Software
3 reviews
#1
OBS
5.0★ from 1 review
#2
ShareX
5.0★ from 1 review
#3
OBS Studio
5.0★ from 1 review
Flair Used in r/hacking
#1
Question
: "Favorite hacking YouTubers?"
20 posts
#2
News
: "America’s Cyber Forces Grapple With Cluster of Deaths by Suicide"
8 posts
#3
Education
: "I think I have a problem.."
5 posts
#4
Github
: "Flare Tracker - An open-source link tracking recon tool that runs on free CloudFlare Workers"
5 posts
#5
Resources
: "Rn I'm doing Professor Messers Tuturials (Currently on the A+ course), but I'm curious:"
4 posts
#6
great user hack
: "Does anyone know of a way I can get free Certmaster Courses for Security+ and Network+
????"
4 posts
#7
Teach Me!
: "My account was hacked by a porno perv and I changed my birthday to being a minor"
4 posts
#8
AI
: "Black Hat USA 2026: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident"
3 posts
#9
Cracking
: "Is there any way I can use this as a standalone TV box?"
2 posts
#10
Vulnerability
: "Fake Cloudflare verification on deceased influencer’s site drops a PowerShell shellcode loader"
2 posts
Member Growth in r/hacking
Yearly
+126k members(4.4%)
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Last updated: August 25, 2026