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- DiggyJohnson 5y agoWell let me be the first to say: I'm intrigued.
- osenthuortuh 5y agoi5ie
- crb3 5y agoThat's how I read it too; and then the link could be seen as an elaborate QSL card.
- _Microft 5y ago/!\
- skibz 5y agoThis website has some truly great stories. Where/how do I begin to understand this one?
- _Microft 5y agoRead on, I found I could figure out most of it on the go. I still don't understand this part, though: https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/scp-2521/clearance6.png https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/scp-2521/clearance...
- jerf 5y agoThose are in-universe classification levels. It says low-level personnel are not allowed to access this file, only Level 4 and O5, the latter being the top tier Foundation ruling council. So that one can't really be decoded without a bit of SCP-specific knowledge.
- kuu 5y agoO5: http://www.scpwiki.com/o5-command-dossier http://www.scpwiki.com/o5-command-dossier
- gclawes 5y agoAccess to information restricted to Level 4 clearance and O5 council only.
- isoprophlex 5y agoProbably that the data contained therein is authorized for foundation members at O5 and O4 level http://www.scpwiki.com/security-clearance-levels http://www.scpwiki.com/security-clearance-levels
- jdshupe 5y agoThis part is talking about who is allowed to view the materials. Level 4 and O5 are the top people of the foundation and the information is only allowed to be seen by them.
- xboxnolifes 5y agoInformation must only be shared with those of level 4 clearance or higher. Edit: Oh wow, a lot of people replied between my last page refresh.
- xdrosenheim 5y agoInformation about this SCP is not to be given to anyone with a clearance level below level 4. (Including the O5's)
- xdrosenheim 5y agoCan't edit: AND* the O5's.
- TchoBeer 5y agoThe important thing is that 2521 (ohgod don't hurt me) seeks out and destroys everything which contains information about itself, but only if that information is words. It doesn't destroy pictorial representations.
- stefanvdw1 5y agoAh yes, the wonderful world of SCPs. When I first discovered the subreddit[0] I read through a ton of them. Some are very well written and the whole universe is very interesting. Would recommend to anyone interested in sci-fi. 0. https://old.reddit.com/r/scp https://old.reddit.com/r/scp
- Severian 5y agoThe Antimemetics Division stories are very well written, and make for some great reading. http://www.scpwiki.com/antimemetics-division-hub http://www.scpwiki.com/antimemetics-division-hub Imagine fighting something that actively eats any knowledge about itself and anything you know about it, including yourself.
- MrRadar 5y agoYou can now buy it as an e-book or paperback from the original author: https://qntm.org/scp https://qntm.org/scp
- isoprophlex 5y agoI can highly HIGHLY recommend reading this. I blazed through it within 24 hours. Favorite pun: "digitized" to describe being absorbed by a monster consisting of a mass of fingers...
- ohazi 5y agoIf you like this, you should also consider reading qntm's other work -- I thought `Ra` and `Fine Structure` were particularly good: https://qntm.org/fiction https://qntm.org/fiction
- Severian 5y agoOh wow! I didn't know he was the same author. I've been looking all over for the Fine Structure website since reading it ages ago and lost my bookmark. Thank you!
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- whalesalad 5y agoAs a Jeep owner I was excited for a brief moment. ●|||||||●
- peanut_worm 5y agothe domain being “wikidot” really threw me off
- HPsquared 5y agoReminds me of this real-world example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Interference_Task_Force https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Interference_Task_Forc...
- xvector 5y agoDid anything ever come of this? Were the ideas ever implemented in the real world?
- gswdh 5y agoI heard they concluded the best sign was no sign. Any sign would draw attention to the site if it could not be understood. The best thing to do is to bury waste as deep as possible in secure and boring (geologically) locations to reduce the chances of anyone digging.
- TrevorJ 5y agoThere's a common theme among fantasy stories of a race of (usually dwarves) that 'dug too deep' and uncovered something evil underground. It's interesting that this cautionary tale already seems embedded in our lore. I wonder why? Have we made this mistake before, at some point in our forgotten past? Probably not, but it's interesting to think about.
- avaldes 5y agoMaybe those stories refer to natural fission reactors. Cursed stones buried deep in the ground that heat themselves and kill people who comes too close.
- NortySpock 5y ago"dug straight down" and fell in a cave... cave might have been full of something that eats flesh like piranha or bacteria, or even just angry bats... Seems pretty trivial for this kind of lore to get started.
- rory 5y agoCould the person who made the entry write in abstract? Like what if I say: you shouldn't write or talk about beings that don't want to be written or talked about.
- dsr_ 5y agoThat Depends. There may be classes of infovores and memetic cognitohazards which are not triggered by information so general that it does not assert the actual existence of any given entity.
- abhorrence 5y agoAs I recall, in one of the antimemetic stories they can (with some intentional effort) remember and describe what it isn’t: “It isn’t... round.”
- zro 5y agoI believe that was SCP-055
- jerf 5y agoOne of the general principles of the SCP-verse is that it hates rules lawyers. If you try to get clever, things tend to react even worse. This is used in-universe as an explanation of why they "contain" rather than "destroy". One of my favorite examples, albeit a very old one now, is http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-145 http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-145 .
- tedivm 5y agoAnother really good example of that is SCP-1609: http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-1609 http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-1609
- fctorial 5y agoThey aren't scientists doing research, they are cops keeping dangerous things in prison. Secure, contain, protect.
- geoah 5y ago> SCP-2521 (also known as ●●|●●●●●|●●|●) is a Keter-level SCP not currently contained by the SCP Foundation. He is a creature who steals every piece of information about his nature, as long as the information is expressed in textual or verbal form. Because of that, nearly everything about him is registered by ideograms and pictures. from https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/SCP-2521 https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/SCP-2521
- antihero 5y agoWell, whoever wrote that is fucked.
- jychang 5y agoNah, 2521 would just take the piece of paper it's written on. If someone said it out loud, then they're fucked.
- jschwartzi 5y agoOh damn it now I have to throw my laptop away.
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- nine_k 5y agoThis is because self-referential jokes are the funniest — like this one.
- agmm 5y ago.
- jeffgreco 5y agoI just tried to wipe that off my screen.
- canadianfella 5y ago
- pvaldes 5y agoFor a fly, this is the stuff that nightmares are made of
- crazypython 5y agoAnother interesting SCP: the "Adaptive Distributed Intelligence" http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5241#toc0 http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5241#toc0
- gorgoiler 5y agoBe sure to check out the discussion page for links to the original artwork: http://www.humantropy.com/ http://www.humantropy.com/ http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-1292498/scp-2521 http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-1292498/scp-2521
- sxp 5y agoIf you're new to SCP, I suggest starting with qntm's Antimemetics stories. They're well written and self-contained. You can read them for free online or buy the ebook: https://qntm.org/scp https://qntm.org/scp
- ta988 5y agoThe ebook is inexpensive and drm-free. I totally recommend if you never read anything from SCP.
- kickscondor 5y agoSome other Internet 'lore' rabbitholes: * SilvaGunner (also: Unregistered HyperCam 2): https://siivagunner.fandom.com/wiki/SiIvaGunner_Wiki https://siivagunner.fandom.com/wiki/SiIvaGunner_Wiki * Pronounciation Book / horse_ebooks: https://77days.fandom.com/wiki/Pronunciation_Book_Conspiracy_Wiki https://77days.fandom.com/wiki/Pronunciation_Book_Conspiracy... * Cicada 3301: http://www.cicada3301.org http://www.cicada3301.org I'm cataloguing some of these here: https://href.cool/Stories/Folkmeme https://href.cool/Stories/Folkmeme Interested to hear about other favorites of yours!
- kickscondor 5y agoAlso interested in stuff like the 847-page 'please will anyone speak to about anything to me' historical document. https://web.archive.org/web/20060324180631/http://www.moviecodec.com/topics/2420p1.html https://web.archive.org/web/20060324180631/http://www.moviec...
- dash2 5y agoWhat in hell is that????
- nonbirithm 5y agoIt was an Internet phenomenon caused by a quirk in Google's "I'm feeling lucky" ranking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_am_lonely_will_anyone_speak_to_me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_am_lonely_will_anyone_speak_... HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25532050 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25532050
- geoah 5y agoOne of my favourites: > John Titor is a name used on several bulletin boards during 2000 and 2001 by a poster claiming to be an American military time traveler from 2036. Titor made numerous vague and specific predictions regarding calamitous events in 2004 and beyond, including a nuclear war. Inconsistencies in his explanations, the uniform inaccuracy of his predictions, and a private investigator's findings all led to the general impression that the entire episode was an elaborate hoax. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor
- VectorLock 5y agoIts nice to call out a SCP that isn't cringe self-insert material.
- selfhoster11 5y agoI read thousands of SCP articles and I'd have to look for a needle in a haystack to find anything resembling a self-insert that's not actually fun to read.
- isoprophlex 5y agoWeaponizing this would be fantastic for use in ransomware. "Pay us crypto or else we'll overwrite your disks with data about SCP-2521"
- csunbird 5y agoBut this sentence is about him, isn't it?
- screye 5y agoReminds me of the Chandrian. Haliax is afterall a shadowy figure that is obsessed with keeping themselves secret without any clear goals.
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- crazypython 5y agoIn less than one minute, this post went from #4 to #12, suggesting anomalous behavior. https://upvotetracker.com/post/hn/27120460 https://upvotetracker.com/post/hn/27120460
- unyttigfjelltol 5y agoHNers may well have flagged it after clicking through to the symbols and picturgrams.
- TeMPOraL 5y agoI was about a second from flagging it when I saw it - I didn't remember what's on wikidot.com, and that domain + Unicode dots smelled like something that doesn't belong. But then I realized it's an SCP, so it got my upvote instead :). I consider many of the SCPs as intellectual curiosity equivalent of catnip; they take your mind to places it never expected to find itself in. But it takes reading some to realize that, and this one definitely requires context.
- dang 5y agoThat's not "anomalous behavior", that's routine: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. If you want anomalous behavior: we not only put your post in the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308), we unbanned wikidot.com and unkilled your submission so that it could go through in the first place.
- crazypython 5y agoI'm joking. It's userflags or mods. Thanks for putting it in the second-chance pool. The issue is anything that seems to disagree with Hacker News' mainstream[0] beliefs[1] gets flagged. Or even things the flagger doesn't understand: see this post being killed in the first place. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27112353 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27112353 [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26838634 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26838634
- pkulak 5y agoMy 11-year-old son is absolutely obsessed with SCP stuff. Never in a million years did I think I'd see something about it here. Wow.
- tywkeene 5y agoIt's definitely not "just kid stuff" if it gives that impression. There's some seriously talented writers out there that can really grab your imagination. I recall one "tale" that about a time when SCP failed to secure everything all at once, and a normal guy is detailing the world basically falling apart as long as he can. In the right hands a lot of these stories could make magnificent movies, but that's a long shot.
- TchoBeer 5y agoSounds like an 001 story. For my personal favorite one read "When Day Breaks."
- menmob 5y agoI believe that’s “Document Recovered From the Bottom of the Mariana Trench” - http://www.scpwiki.com/document-recovered-from-the-marianas-trench http://www.scpwiki.com/document-recovered-from-the-marianas-...
- MetallicCloud 5y agoIn people like these and haven't tried playing the game `Control`, you definitely should. It is very heavily inspired by the SCP project, and is a super fun and interesting game.
- throwaway_2047 5y agoCan someone explain to me what am I reading here? Everyone is mentioning SCP. What is SCP?
- kuyan 5y ago> The SCP Foundation[note 3] is a fictional organization documented by the web-based collaborative-fiction project of the same name. Within the website's fictional setting, the SCP Foundation is responsible for locating and containing individuals, entities, locations, and objects that violate natural law (referred to as SCPs). The real-world website is community-based and includes elements of many genres such as horror, science fiction, and urban fantasy. > On the SCP Foundation wiki, the majority of works consist of "special containment procedures", structured internal documentation that describes an SCP object and the means of keeping it contained. The website also contains thousands of "Foundation Tales", short stories that take place within the SCP Foundation setting. The series has been praised for its ability to convey horror through its scientific and academic writing style, as well as for its high standards of quality. > The Foundation has inspired numerous spin-off works, including the horror indie video games SCP – Containment Breach and SCP: Secret Laboratory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCP_Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCP_Foundation
- outsidetheparty 5y agoSCP Wiki has really matured over the years; it started out as creepypasta and murder monsters -- many of them well-written, to be sure, and an interesting setting -- but still just basically straightforward horror stories. In recent years some of the writers there have really upped their game, they're tackling much more nuanced and complicated issues than "SCARY THING WILL DESTROY WORLD". I'm particularly fond of http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-5031 http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-5031, for example, which directly addresses those aspects of the early site in a very humorous way.
- rthomas6 5y agoI love this :)
- phiiiillll 5y agoThis is a good long form SCP read: http://www.scpwiki.com/antimemetics-division-hub http://www.scpwiki.com/antimemetics-division-hub
- ChrisClark 5y agoI really loved reading through this one. Such a great idea for a story.
- jweather 5y agoIf you liked this story line, check out the author's other work on http://qntm.org http://qntm.org.
- mr_woozy 5y agothanks for ruining my sleep schedule
- fragileone 5y agoAmazing story.
- ceravis 5y ago
- soheil 5y agoSecure Contain Protect not to be confused with cmd line tool scp, secure copy.
- dharmab 5y agoIIRC this was written for a contest for the best entry written with a low word count
- aranelsurion 5y agoIf you're interested in SCP, this game might also be of interest: https://store.steampowered.com/app/870780/Control_Ultimate_Edition/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/870780/Control_Ultimate_E...
- EamonnMR 5y agoThis is one of the most enjoyable action games I've played recently. The things it does with visual design, shaders, perspective, and environments are incredibly impressive.
- kevinmgranger 5y agoFor additional context: this was the winning entry in the SCP's Short Works Contest[1]. The idea was: can you make a good SCP entry in under 500 words? Bonus points if it's under 237 words, the length of the first ever entry. Of course, the entry with zero words won. [1]: http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/short-works-contest http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/short-works-contest
- hatsuseno 5y agoSeems like that's a common thread for 'shortest X' contents, like that 0-byte IOOCC entry.
- selestify 5y agoWhat's IOOCC (no Google results), and what was that entry? Could you link to it?
- chowells 5y agoIt's a misspelling of IOCCC - international obfuscated C coding competition.
- Skunkleton 5y agoDoes misspelling count as obfuscation?
- zerocrates 5y agoThey probably meant to say "IOCCC," the International Obfuscated C Code Contest and they're referring I think to this entry: https://www.ioccc.org/years.html#1994_smr https://www.ioccc.org/years.html#1994_smr
- Thorrez 5y agoWow, that Makefile rule... smr: smr.c @${RM} -rf smr ${CP} smr.c smr ${CHMOD} +x smr
- jasonhansel 5y agoThis gives me an idea for a way to easily and securely get rid of a hard drive...would be much cheaper than those companies that shred them.
- kortex 5y agoHot fire, stoked with forced air. HDDs rely on magnetism, bringing the platters above the Curie temperature destroys all information - 570 °C (1,060 °F) . SSDs, I'm actually not sure, but I imagine a bed of white-hot coals will render any electrical charge in those tiny cells undecipherable. Heat increases the ability of electrons to tunnel (jump out of potential wells) so at some temp, the traps will leak all their charge. I'm not a semiconductor guy so I'm not making any claims.
- aasasd 5y agoIs drilling a couple holes out of vogue now?
- echelon 5y agoThis would make a fantastic horror movie. I could see it being in the same vein as "It Follows", except in this case you can't talk about the monster.
- jvanderbot 5y agoI get that this is instructions / data about a baddie that steals all written / spoken information about itself. Including the person who spoke it. BUT, what is the bit about half way down showing that you cannot share the pictoral data with people 0,1,2, or 3, but you can share with 4 and ... 0.5?
- fao_ 5y agoSecurity clearance, only level 4 or higher. An O-5 is one of the directors of The Foundation.
- robotnikman 5y agoFunny to see this as I just got back into reading SCP articles again.
- baud147258 5y agois the use of a circle instead of a checkmark common? I think it's the first time I'm seeing this
- totetsu 5y agoThe photo looks like it is an European "wild man" costume https://www.wired.com/2013/08/the-gorgeous-costumes-of-europes-wild-men/ https://www.wired.com/2013/08/the-gorgeous-costumes-of-europ...