Fun Fact: You can get the API secret key out of twitter's official client. Which will allow you to use their xauth system (no browser oauth required - only enter username/password).

Also great for spambots: Twitter can't ban the app because then they had to ban their official Twitter clients.

/edit: have fun

    'key': 'Fpl5UUVwvaczUzzpVJ8Rlw'
    'secret': 'z73HF21zCz5CaxzDM6M0OPeaCBYGfHUG3FYBgcMB2Y'

    'key':  '3rJOl1ODzm9yZy63FACdg'
    'secret': '5jPoQ5kQvMJFDYRNE8bQ4rHuds4xJqhvgNJM4awaE8'

One is for tweetie 1.0 and the other is for the official twitter client.

You should try to extract the ones from iOS 5. They're hardcoded in Twitter.framework (simulator versions as well) and can be extracted with the simple "strings" tool. I'm not going to post them here though.

I guess you should take great care to use the exact same HTTP headers (user-agent, accept, encoding etc) and pattern of API access as the corresponding apps, or they'll surely be able to detect anomalies and ban your account :)

Because not everyone knows everything, and the entire point of being HACKERS (I assume the uppercase is useful) is to promote learning and sharing knowledge.

So whilst this is probably not front news worthy of LEET HACKERS it's probably made someone go 'hey thats cool' and that's all it needed to do.

> man ssh

doesn't imply being "LEET".

No, it implies that you think that the other person is stupid AND they use some form of Unix. Any way you put it, your response is unfriendly and rude. And Hacker News should not be known for arrogance. In fact, the person reading this article might not know much about tunnelling, but maybe writing the next greatest app. You won't know who you are displaying your arrogance to, so don't do it.

… because we are not all doing the same kind of hacking. The variety of news here is proof for that.

Back to the topic: I my own router to create a tunnel similar to the one described by the OP. It is not as fast as an Amazon instance but free wi-fi is neither.

To LEARN tricks like these.

Great. I perceive webdev as pretty boring. I hope using an exotic language like clojure will make it a little more interesting for me.

Start writing a game. You will learn a lot more from the problems you have to solve for your game than from a dozen project euler websites.

Yep, I too don't understand the fascination with puzzles. I love solving real problems but I hate those idiotic puzzles.

I too do not know why people like things that I hate.

For real? It's called empathy. Try it some time, it's like telepathy, but easier.

er, sorry. that was meant as a joke but probably sounded a bit harsher than i intended.

> worked to get a high karma

Wow, why would anyone consider a score on any internet site so important? I certainly wouldn't "work hard" to get internet points.

It should be pretty hard to automate spam comments (without the comments getting downvoted to hell). Whereas automated submission of stories is super trivial.

> I think showing veteran users in another color would really help a lot to set the tone.

Why should we set apart veteran users? Only because they are longer here doesn't mean they have a more important opinion on a certain topic.

Setting them more apart is like having village elders. Even if they talk about something they have no idea of they are still right because they are so old?

> community leaders

That's where I stopped reading. I don't need or want a leader who can lead my thoughts.

Also: Meta discussions are never productive. They only waste time.

> market sabotage by people selling apps at 99 cents

The real sabotage comes from Apple who are encouraging 99c ents applications. It fits well in their strategy to commoditize software so their hardware becomes more appealing.

The problem is that this strategy works: For every "homeless" developer who gives up there are waiting 10 in line to flood the market with their 99 cent apps.