Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Lindsey Kuper @lindsey@recurse.social

2/22/2026, 5:19:13 PM

Public

UCSC CS student Ivan Kuria created a map of five years of Santa Cruz parking citation data after noticing that the data was accessible: https://lookout.co/mapping-218000-santa-cruz-parking-citations-ucsc-student-tracked-citys-parking-tickets-in-real-time/story

> “I just decided to increment my own ticket number just by one to see if I could find someone else’s ticket number,” he said. “I was instantly able to find someone else’s ticket. Then it was just a matter of doing that long enough to see how many tickets were issued by each hardware device.”

Mapping 218,000 Santa Cruz parking citations: UCSC student tracked city’s parking tickets in real time

Third-year UC Santa Cruz student Ivan Kuria built a website that maps and tracks every parking ticket issued in the city of Santa Cruz, and also shows daily tickets going back years. Although the site no longer updates, viewers can still see daily maps of tickets issued between 2020 and Feb. 11.

lookout.co · Lookout Santa Cruz

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