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r/hacking

3M members. The best post we have captured here reached 190.3K upvotes, which works out to 64 per 1,000 members.

64peak upvotes per 1,000 members
3Mmembers
190.3Kbest post
14.5Kmost comments
100posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

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Image 80% Gallery 10% Link 4% Video 4% Question 1% Text 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

News 3 Meme 2 META 2 Questionable source 2 Question 2 Read this before asking. 1 Hack The Planet 1 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 1 Education 1 1337 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

X is down

↑ 190.3K 💬 7.5K image 2025

🚨 HAPPENING AGAIN: Massive attack on X is ongoing. This is attack NUMBER 4. The attackers are relentless. Elon Musk says it is so well-organized …

↑ 97.5K 💬 14.5K gallery 2025

Linux users?

↑ 80.9K 💬 1.3K image 2025

Title

↑ 17K 💬 219 image 2024

Security is also an important part of development.

↑ 14.3K 💬 292 image 2017

A 18-yo ethical hacker reported an exploit in the e-ticket system of a Hungarian public transport company. He never got a reply but a few days later …

↑ 13.5K 💬 455 link 2017

How to start hacking? The ultimate two path guide to information security.

↑ 13.5K 💬 1.4K question 2018

Computer Security Career Paths

↑ 12.8K 💬 352 image 2017

No comment

↑ 10.4K 💬 183 image 2024

Possible to edit store price tags using Flipper Zero

↑ 10K 💬 321 image 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/hacking, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.