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Show HN: We made a simple hiring puzzle Looking for feedback
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- klavinski 7y agoQuite fun, but since you ask for an email address first, I used a temporary one by lack of trust. Later, I would have written my address.
- mahmoudimus 7y agoThanks so much for that feedback! We will make that change :)
- masonic 7y agoPlus, the passphrase is hundreds of characters long. Ridiculous. Not everyone will browse this on the same device as one receives enail?.
- mahmoudimus 7y agoThanks so much for that feedback. It was meant for desktops where you’d have access to a terminal. Thanks for the feedback.
- eps 7y agoIt started by asking for my email address, so it's an instant No.
- mahmoudimus 7y agoIt’s a hiring puzzle 🧩 so obviously we want your email address. However you can just write in ${anything}@mailinator.com for a disposable email address and still provide feedback. That being said, thanks for the comment, we will move this stage to the end.
- jessehorne 7y agoI like the puzzle. Sadly (and honestly), I got stuck on the last answer.
- mahmoudimus 7y agoThank you so much for your feedback. With your permission, I'd like to experiment by sending you a "hint" to see if it can help finish the last part without taking away the satisfaction of completing the puzzle! You can ping me on my email address. Thank you so much for taking the time to do this!
- jessehorne 7y agoThank YOU for sharing the puzzle. I love these sorts of things. I've been introduced to ARG's lately which usually end up being similar things. I missed the cicada 3301 wagon as I was too inexperienced at the time to be able to contribute. So I've been trying to find other puzzles and I'm happy I found this one. I'll reach out to your email shortly!
- mc3 7y agoI'm stuck on the first one. The "obvious" thing to do didn't work :-). Now I have no idea how to decode it. I guess that is the point? - do you need to be from a security background and crack the code, might require some tools etc?
- jessehorne 7y agoI wouldn't say that you need a security background to answer the questions. I certainly don't. I would say more about the problems themselves but I'm scared it would give too much away. If you'd like, I could walk you through the first answer through email (you can find mine in my profile description). That may be enough to get you going. If not, I'd certainly be up for sharing how the rest are solved. I'm more than willing to do that because in this case if you aren't familiar with the type of problem you wouldn't even know where to begin "googling" to learn more.
- YaBa 7y agostuck at the last answer too
- YaBa 7y ago@mahmoudimus figured it out (the 5th), however, doing ...something... got me on a 6th answer. Is this a bug or some bonus level? ;)