Channel
hacking & programming
@privateprogramming
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Cite this entry
1,587subscribers
-23 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 1,000–3,162.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001276740482 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @privateprogramming |
| Created | Between 1 April 2018 and 31 August 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 26 September 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 30 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 20 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 30 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/privateprogramming |
Topic
Hacking & security — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 26 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 67% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and the other topics.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 30 Oct 2026, 01:07 | 1,587 | -1 |
| 26 Oct 2026, 21:14 | 1,588 | +2 |
| 20 Oct 2026, 14:09 | 1,586 | -1 |
| 17 Oct 2026, 16:58 | 1,587 | -3 |
| 14 Oct 2026, 23:58 | 1,590 | +1 |
| 11 Oct 2026, 14:18 | 1,589 | -4 |
| 4 Oct 2026, 19:55 | 1,593 | -3 |
| 26 Sept 2026, 03:36 | 1,596 | no change |
| 25 Sept 2026, 11:57 | 1,596 | -2 |
| 16 Sept 2026, 18:22 | 1,598 | -1 |
| 9 Sept 2026, 03:16 | 1,599 | -3 |
| 3 Sept 2026, 10:18 | 1,602 | -1 |
| 28 Aug 2026, 10:28 | 1,603 | +2 |
| 25 Aug 2026, 05:45 | 1,601 | -3 |
| 22 Aug 2026, 12:17 | 1,604 | -1 |
| 19 Aug 2026, 05:13 | 1,605 | -1 |
| 16 Aug 2026, 07:17 | 1,606 | -1 |
| 9 Aug 2026, 17:02 | 1,607 | -2 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 21:18 | 1,609 | -1 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 09:11 | 1,610 | first reading |
Engagement
Posts not read yet. This entry is on the register from its profile alone; the post reader has not reached it. Engagement figures appear here once posts have actually been measured — we do not publish a rate before we have the readings behind it.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 30 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“hacking & programming” (@privateprogramming), 1,587 subscribers as measured 30 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/privateprogramming.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.