Ask HN: What are the “lost arts” of our field?

Ask HN: What are the “lost arts” of our field?

5 by Gabrielfair | 2 comments on Hacker News.

I've been thinking a lot of the good old simple days of the internet and programming. Lots of technology and tools are killed now right out of the gate b/c of how powerful established players have gotten. Your hobby project to track bots on twitter, killed by an overnight API change. So I'm looking for a list of the "lost arts". For example, its near impossible to find documentation related to reverse engineering Widevine DRM. Anything published is scrubbed from the internet search results lighting fast.



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