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Join hackint
Hacker & CCC community network. Here's the hackint server address, the busiest channels, and exactly how to connect from any IRC client.
Server
irc.hackint.org
Port
6697 TLS
Users
≈2k
Channels
200+
How to connect to hackint
Point your IRC client at the address below. The connection is encrypted with TLS — use the secure port.
ircs://irc.hackint.org:6697
- Open your IRC client (HexChat, WeeChat, irssi, mIRC, Textual…).
- Add a new network with the command
/server irc.hackint.org +6697. - Choose a nickname and connect (make sure TLS/SSL is enabled).
- Type
/listto browse channels, or/join #channelto jump straight in.
Popular channels on hackint
The busiest rooms on hackint right now, indexed automatically by our directory bot from 200 public channels. Type /join <channel> after connecting.
| Channel | Users | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| #hackint | 819 | Hackint IRC Network | Absolutely no blackhattery on this network | State your question and be patient for answers! | via Matrix: #channel:hackint.org | via XMPP: #channel@irc.hackint.org | via DN42: irc.hackint.dn42 | Website: https://hackint.org |
| #gpn | 607 | Besuchen Sie uns auf Matrix: #gpn:entropia.de | GPN24: vermutlich 2026 | https://gulas.ch |
| #nixos | 443 | German NixOS Community | Aktuelles Release: 26.05 (Yarara) | Bridged zwischen IRC (#nixos auf irc.hackint.org) und Matrix (#de:nixos.org) | NixOS Meetup: Mittwoch, 19:00 Uhr: https://jitsi.lassul.us/nixos |
| #clan | 426 | https://clan.lol | office hours: Thursdays 17:00 Berlin Time @ https://jitsi.clan.lol/pub |
| #dn42 | 363 | https://dn42.dev | #dn42 @ irc.hackint.dn42 | Routes: 172.20.0.0/14, fd00::/8 | DNS: fd42:d42:d42:54::1 | Registry: https://git.dn42.dev | NEW Peerfinder: https://peerfinder.dn42.dev | Disable rp_filter on Linux! | IPv6 needs MTU >= 1280! | `/gs join !dn42` for dn42/person/$acct cloak | dn42 Sticker |
| #voc-lounge | 280 | Winkekatzen Bar. Feel free to stay slightly on topic. Here we talk about video streaming, recording and publishing. (German/English) - Bridged IRC <-> Matrix #public:c3voc.de |
| #ccchh | 250 | Website: https://hamburg.ccc.de | Also on Matrix https://matrix.to/#/#ccchh:hamburg.ccc.de |
| #snix | 229 | — |
| #imgone | 203 | Archiving Imgur | https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Imgur | https://pad.notkiska.pw/p/imgone-scrapes |
| #houseoftea | 194 | — |
| #ffka | 190 | Freifunk in Karlsruhe! | Treffen 2-wöchentlich 20 Uhr im Entropia. | Images: https://firmware.karlsruhe.freifunk.net/images/ | Config zum Selberbauen: https://github.com/ffka |
| #critical-decentralization | 180 | Critical Decentralization Cluster at 39c3 https://decentral.community - Public channel for all participants |
| #gluon | 180 | Gluon - The Next Generation Mesh Firmware Framework | v2025.1 is out! | https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/gluon | Next Meetup: 2026/06/16 20:00 CEST mumble.freifunk.net |
| #krebs | 178 | 🦀 uncloud your infrastructure 🦀 | radio: http://radio.lassul.us/radio.ogg | krebsdienst Tue 19:00 - 23:59 | NixOS Wed 19:00 - 23:00 https://jitsi.lassul.us/nixos |
| #c-base | 172 | https://c-base.org/ - the spacestation under berlin | Rungestr. 20, 10179 Berlin, +493028599300 | DON'T PANIC |
| #lebib | 145 | BIB Hackerspace ⚧ Montpellier, France 🌐 https://lebib.org — IRC: irc.hackint.org#lebib — Matrix: #lebib:hackint.org |
| #mediaonfire | 131 | Archiving MediaFire | Submit urls for archival using !a, or use !help. (Please don't queue anything over 100G without talking to arkiver and rewby.) | https://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=MediaFire |
| #servfail | 125 | SERVFAIL DNS :: https://beta.servfail.network :: YOLO SLA for the masses :: you won't regret delegating your domains to us! :: Meow! |
| #dn42-social | 124 | channel name 'social' does not imply all persons are 'social' /s |
| #undefined | 123 | — |
| #scottishconsulate | 118 | https://scottishconsulate.org/ :: Trans rights are Human Rights :: If Nazis show up please tell an adult {Running Count: 2} :: https://scottishconsulate.org/code_conduct :: [tj]: Tolerance here for absolute pish is minimal :: |
| #dn42-peering | 115 | Find & solicit dn42 peers here! | Main discussion in #dn42 |
| #frogger | 112 | Archiving blogs on Blogger | https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Blogger | Custom domains can be added to https://pad.notkiska.pw/p/blogger-custom-domains |
| #burnthetwitch | 109 | Archiving metadata and selected video data of Twitch highlights and uploads | Mass deletion occurring 2025-05-19: https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/video-on-demand?language=en_US | https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Twitch.tv |
| #camp | 108 | Chaos Communication Camp 2023: 15.-19. August 2023 | https://events.ccc.de/2023/04/21/camp2023/ |
| #ffhh | 106 | https://hamburg.freifunk.net - Treffen am ersten Freitag (Attraktor) und dritten Montag (CCCHH) im Monat |
| #regio | 105 | CCC regionales Netz | Naechstes Treffen: Datenspuren, dann Regio-WE | Naechste Telko: xx.xx.2023 ab 21 Uhr | https://md.darmstadt.ccc.de/regio, https://md.darmstadt.ccc.de/regiotreffen, https://md.darmstadt.ccc.de/regiotelko, https://md.darmstadt.ccc.de/regiowochenende | https://pads.ccc.de/regio-ir |
| #codearchiver | 100 | Bot is temporarily broken |:|:| codearchiver - it archives code! | https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Codearchiver | Use !help for commands | Please also submit forges to Software Heritage https://archive.softwareheritage.org/add-forge/request/create/ |
| #Y | 98 | Distributed recursive crawls of sites without clear structure and unfeasible with ArchiveBot | https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Distributed_recursive_crawls |
| #cccb | 97 | check sunshine / https://matrix.to/#/#cccbw-public:catgirl.cloud on Matrix for faster responses |
| #urlteamwasright | 95 | Archiving goo.gl shortlinks | Project finished | Shutting down 2025-08-25 | If you get 'Google asks for a login', Google temporarily banned you; reduce the concurrency. | https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Goo.gl |
| #why2025-chaosdach | 95 | pad: https://md.sakamoto.pl/JAVxOqTvSxqNDj54efQrJg |
| #webroasting | 94 | Finding ISP, university, and other web hosting services before the Grim Reaper finds them. | https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ISP_Hosting https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/University_Web_Hosting https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Web_Roasting |
| #freifunk | 92 | Freifunk | DE|EN | We are building free and open mesh networks | https://www.freifunk.net |
| #studnetze | 91 | https://studentnetworks.eu/ |
| #wikibot | 83 | IRC bot for #wikiteam tools | Dashboard: https://wikibot.digitaldragon.dev | https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Wikibot |
| #hsmr | 81 | willkommen im Haqvivm Marpvrgensis - Plenum-Themen: https://hedgedoc.h4xx0r.club/hDcFjVinQ_CdX5D2dIPgEA# |
| #dn42-dns | 78 | wiki: https://wiki.dn42/services/New-DNS, monitoring: https://grafana.burble.com/d/E4iCaHoWk/dn42-dns-status?orgId=1&refresh=1m, master config: https://git.dn42.dev/dns/config |
| #entropia | 76 | entropia | Matrix: #entropia:entropia.de | Wir lieben Aufräumen. Aufgaben (gern erweitern) https://entropia.pads.ccc.de/Aufgaben |
| #infra-muccc | 76 | Infra des muCCC - Naechstes Treffen: 27.07.2023 |
| #nodeping | 76 | ArchiveTeam monitoring notifications | Badly behaving servers will be spanked. |
| #177013 | 75 | Archiving nhentai | Legal troubles: https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-site-nhentai-sued-in-u-s-court-for-copyright-infringement-240903/ | https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Nhentai |
| #memes | 72 | home of the mémés :-( | 8==========D~~~~~~~~~ | and here i thought my topic was raw |
| #signal | 72 | SignalAngel HQ | Welcome to the 37c3 / Day 1 | Overview: https://c3signal.de/howto |
| #ucryne | 72 | Archiving Ukraine and other content impacted by the Russian invasion | https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/.ua and more |
| #hackernews | 71 | https://news.ycombinator.com in your IRC client | current feeds: frontpage (after it hits 30 points to allow for some activity & less 'firehose' here) and "recent, highly upvoted comments" | thanks to: https://hnrss.org | other channels: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Archiveteam:IRC/Relay | |
| #cccac | 68 | https://ccc.ac | Info für Besucher: https://ccc.ac/corona | !status oder curl "https://status.ccc.ac/spaceapi" gibt dir den Raumstatus | Hacken is niet toegestaan in Nederland! | Hacken hat die höchste Priorität | Hacking est autorisée en france |
| #chromeweblore | 66 | https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Chrome_Web_Store |
| #dn42-registry | 66 | — |
| #dn42-sip | 64 | — |
| #dn42-bots | 63 | https://dn42.dev | #dn42 | Looking glass bots: Skillet: !help, uberbot: ##help, bitmonster: `trace / `route <IP> |
| #subtitles | 63 | Doing subtitles for 39c3; How to: https://github.com/bugbakery/transcribee-voctoweb-glue-2/wiki/How-to-create-subtitles; In case of questions, just ask :) |
| #kickthebucket | 62 | Archiving Bitbucket | Deleting inactive workspaces starting on 2026-01-15 | https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Bitbucket |
| #ffffm | 61 | Das ist der Matrix und IRC-Chat-Kanal von Freifunk Frankfurt https://ffm.freifunk.net || Falls Du eine Frage hast, bitte stelle sie direkt, antworten können etwas dauern 😉 |
| #milliways-emfcamp | 61 | — |
| #voctomix | 60 | Voctomix Support & Development - https://github.com/voc/voctomix/ - Deutsch oder/or English |
| #38c3 | 59 | — |
| #chaoscaffeinecafe | 59 | hier gibt es nichts (mehr) zu sehen; aber hier: https://matrix.muc.ccc.de/#/room/#ChaosCaffeineCafe:muc.ccc.de |
| #datahoarders | 59 | hoard alllll the data! |
| #lostkontakt | 58 | VK at risk | https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/VK |
About hackint
Hacker & CCC community network. hackint is an independent public IRC network with around 2k users.
Official website: www.hackint.org
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Frequently asked questions
- What is the server address of hackint?
- hackint is reachable at
ircs://irc.hackint.org:6697— hostnameirc.hackint.org, port6697over TLS/SSL. - Is hackint free?
- Yes — it's a free, public IRC network. No account is required to start chatting.
- How do I join a channel?
- After connecting, type
/join #channelnamein your client.