[HN Gopher] The cursed computer iceberg meme (2021) ___________________________________________________________________ The cursed computer iceberg meme (2021) Author : harporoeder Score : 26 points Date : 2022-08-26 21:24 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (suricrasia.online) (TXT) w3m dump (suricrasia.online) | dang wrote: | Related: | | _The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme_ - | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26766722 - April 2021 (60 | comments) | skunkworker wrote: | The fictional article | https://suricrasia.online/unfiction/basilisk/ is one the best | written computer science/cryptography SCP like articles I've ever | read. | | What I loved is that: | | $ echo -en 'basilisk:0000000000:ds26ovbJzDwkVWia1tINLJZ2WXEHBvItM | ZRxHmYhlQd0spuvPXb6cYFJorDKkqlA' | openssl dgst -sha256 -binary | | openssl dgst -sha256 (stdin)= | 0000000000000000000000161b9f84a187cc21b172bf68b3cb3b78684d8e9f17 | | actually works, but is a little sneaky. See | https://www.metafilter.com/190463/so-who-is-there-left-to-tr... | | Edit2: https://github.com/blackle/Basilisk-Hunter How the | examples were generated. | MonkeyMalarky wrote: | I love the breadth that Reflections on Trusting Trust, Therac-25, | and The Bitter Lesson are! But there's a lot of "X is Turing | complete" and "Y is a fork/zip/parsing infinite expansion bomb" | though. | thriftwy wrote: | I would expect to see https://yosefk.com/c++fqa/ there. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-08-26 23:00 UTC)