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I got into YC Startup School by hacking it

by obaid obaid.wtf published 2026-07-187 min read

tldr: I uncovered Y Combinator was scoring 100k+ founders around the world through Paxel, I broke it (possible easter egg) + found a vulnerability that let anyone forge and push any score to their ranking database, courtesy of an unvalidated hmac

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