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Online Hacker Simulator
- amelius 6y agoNice to use this as a "boss key" when reading HN. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_key https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_key
- ttul 6y ago$50 to the first person who manages to put this on a screen at an airport.
- sss111 6y agochallenge accepted haha. This might be a easy way to do it (excuse the clickbaity headline) https://hothardware.com/news/man-takes-over-airport-monitor-for-ps4 https://hothardware.com/news/man-takes-over-airport-monitor-...
- betaby 6y agoRelevant https://github.com/dustinkirkland/hollywood https://github.com/dustinkirkland/hollywood
- cryptoz 6y agoAnybody else willing to admit playing Uplink back in the day? I sure played it and miss it haha.
- napsterbr 6y agoGuilty! I even wrote my own web-based hacking simulator game because of the influence Uplink had on me. A couple years ago I started working on a new web-based UI[0], the start menu icon at the bottom left surely will feel familiar :) [0] - https://proj-img-listing.s3.amazonaws.com/img/he2-ss0.png https://proj-img-listing.s3.amazonaws.com/img/he2-ss0.png
- markedathome 6y agoAnother set of hacker games, Hacker Evolution, Hacker Evolution Untold, Hacker Evolution Duality released their source code[0] along with the games on steam for around $10 [0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/364750/Hacker_Evolution_Source_Code/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/364750/Hacker_Evolution_S...
- Agentlien 6y agoI played it a bunch. It was a real fun game. I liked how easy it was to come up with and execute your own crazy heists.
- satysin 6y agoUplink was such fun back in the early 2000s When I lived in Thames Ditton a few years ago I realised I lived not far from the Introversion offices and by chance met up with them a few times which was pretty cool. Still got my v1.0 CD of Uplink with the bonus mini-CD in storage :)
- ghostDancer 6y agoRemember when it began to make the modem connecting noises, and pulling the cable just in case it was connecting me to a foreign number.
- amberj8 6y agoIt keeps showing a modal pop up every few keystrokes. Firefox on macOS. Also, my preferred one: https://hackertyper.net/ https://hackertyper.net/
- walrus01 6y agosee also: https://hackertyper.net/ https://hackertyper.net/
- chdefrene 6y agoIf you like this, you might also like geektyper: https://geektyper.com/ https://geektyper.com/
- puddingnomeat 6y agoA little too ironic
- spikedavis 6y agoAnd, yeah, I really do think
- mNovak 6y agoWarning, clicked link and computer was immediately hacked
- ngcc_hk 6y agoActually if one can launch something like this one can have a text based app for useful stuff (or simple app ...) wonder how to write one?
- 1MachineElf 6y agoChrome on my android phone could not handle this web page.
- emayljames 6y agoFirefox Android can ;)
- 177tcca 6y agoAnd all you had to give up was sandboxing and process per site isolation!
- emayljames 6y agoThis is not correct: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Sandbox#:~:text=Security%20Sandboxing%20makes%20use%20of,is%20common%20to%20all%20platforms.&text=The%20security%20aspects%20of%20a,on%20a%20per%2Dplatform%20basis https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Sandbox#:~:text=Security%2.... Also Chrome was caught out last year, by non other than their own ProjectZero, with a vuln in their unsecured GPU code.
- larsbrinkhoff 6y agoReal hackers do PDP-10 assembly language.
- ineedasername 6y agoIf you just randomly press keys (keyboard face roll) it will still type out the code. Sometimes I feel like this is how other people actually write their code. When I encounter some of my own past work when I thought I was being "clever", sometimes that's how I feel about my own past work. It's a always a reminder to me that I should avoid trying to be too clever.
- scorpion95 6y agoI used to read and believe this. After all, clarity is important. Since then I’ve realized that our brains are like lenses; learning to code re-wires your brain to read code, which is different than other types of data, similar to the way that reading a book is a different interface than examining a room; just as we may choose to read certain authors or subjects, or may not think of the same things when examining a room, we may choose to see code in styles or certain languages, or may consider value in clarity of code or in its function. I value clarity, but upon considering the room again, the first dimension is function, next clarity. This doesn’t subdue clarity to a trivial role, but clarity is a third order to maintainability, which is second order to executability. Over time, those lenses may not be as agile as before, though we expect them to be. Text is blurred, and we may struggle to hold the glasses at a distance to read a certain part of the code clearly. It no longer makes sense, and that which employs us sees other value.
- ineedasername 6y agoFunction is compromised in a code base that must be maintained by multiple people over the course of years when if it is not written with both function and clarity in mind. I have never myself encountered a task where I have had to compromise functionality for clarity, or clarity for functionality.
- rabidrat 6y agoYes. We have this notion that code should be understandable to a junior dev with no context and only 90 seconds to understand what the function does. But for a complex system, it would take a lot longer to communicate what's going on in such simple terms, and you would wind up being much more verbose and/or repeating yourself everywhere, which then becomes an impediment to a fluent dev who has been working with the system for months and already has the context. You need that higher-level clarity in code so that you can still work with abstractions and not have to dive into every function at a code-level, but when working inside a function or a deeply technical area, it's reasonable to expect a developer to spend some time reading the code and coming up with a mental execution model, which is purest when it comes directly from the code in the form that works, and makes sense to the people who actively need to maintain it.
- scorpion95 6y agoThe best is when you increase the font size as far as it will go: old hacker.
- hjek 6y agoWonderful! I love the "crack" progress bar running through the directory tree. bpytop[0] in cool-retro-term[1] looks quite similar while being genuinely useful. [0]: https://github.com/aristocratos/bpytop https://github.com/aristocratos/bpytop [1]: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
- dvfjsdhgfv 6y agoQuite nice except the Welcome window popping up every couple of keystrokes.
- wizzwizz4 6y agoIt's keyed off space and enter.
- niDistinct 6y agoThanks. Very fun and aesthetic.
- Chris2048 6y agoThis needs to be turned into a screensaver