Cloudflare's captcha uses half of the obfuscation techniques from the code virtualization article, but in javascript
monster_truck 6 hours ago [-]
So does alibaba for their platform anti abuse/fingerprinting shit
harel 23 hours ago [-]
This reminds me that I have a stack of 2600 magazines in the garage somewhere. I need to revisit them...
Insanity 17 hours ago [-]
Damn, that's a lot of magazines!
Sorry, couldn't resist. Never got those as it was a bit before my time, I started coding in 2004'ish in EU and wasn't aware of 2600 until much later. Not sure if they ever moved digital?
harel 4 hours ago [-]
Ha! It took me a few more ms than it should have.
Yes it seems they have digitised at least in part: https://www.2600.com/
When I zoom in, the right half of the page becomes invisible.
bargainbin 5 days ago [-]
Love the aesthetic. There was another ezine like this years ago focused on cybersecurity, I’ve forgotten its name now but the ASCII art involved was top notch.
Does anyone have any idea? It was definitely when Twitter was still Twitter as I remember reaching out to them about their ASCII art.
mckirk 5 days ago [-]
Maybe you're thinking of Phrack [1]?
I wonder if there'll be another edition of it, and if yes what it would look like, now that the AIpocalypse seems to have reached security research...
They are kinda inconsistent about it, looking at the social media handles, ascii logos, etc.
skrebbel 18 hours ago [-]
Decades before leetcode, we already had leetspeak! This is that.
brettermeier 1 days ago [-]
Very nice aesthetics.
darkstar_16 1 days ago [-]
I miss the ezines scene!
debo_ 2 days ago [-]
The interview with Doug McIlroy is incredible. It's almost worth a link all on its own.
iberator 2 days ago [-]
Very cool and BBS/hacking style. BUT almost useless on mobile :(
I prefer to use a PC but that kind of articles are perfect to read when commuting.
You could just use <br> instead of fixed length words per line.
russellbeattie 1 days ago [-]
Agreed. Though apparently you're being downvoted for a legitimate issue. I'm laying down using my phone and it's not particularly enjoyable to read.
It's 2026 - the site can look like an old-skool zine being displayed with monospace fonts on a computer monitor and easily still have alternate formats for mobile devices. Not having it is just pure laziness.
I wouldn't mind if Reader Mode could deal with the text, but it can't. Oh well.
chews 21 hours ago [-]
really missed an opportunity to make this available via SSH shell or renderable in lynx.
josefritzishere 23 hours ago [-]
This is gorgeous; supremely impressive.
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BodyCulture 1 days ago [-]
It would be great if you hacked your website to be better usable on a smaller mobile device! I need to zoom in to read, but then I also need to scroll sideways because of fixed layout.
You can do both, achieve a cool retro style and publish in a more modern format that supports multiple output devices.
hk__2 1 days ago [-]
…Or use a non-modern format and serve it as .txt, which supports all devices. The only downside is you’ll lose colors, but they are not strictly required.
Good to have a reminder that it’s software engineering that has changed, not me.
We do, but as you say, they're often debugged into existence rather than cleanly designed into existence. ```
An unreadable fantasy font logo at the top, multiple concentric frames, dot lines, l33t speech etc.
And I absolutely remember people complaining about slop in such intros even in the 90s, they just didn’t use that term.
Also, the text mentions CDC 1620. I don't think this existed. Either it was IBM 1620 or CDC something else.
I'd be just as happy with clear readable type, but the content is the thing.
https://soundcloud.com/blotter1/blotter_tmp0ut_2026
Interview: Doug McIlroy: https://tmpout.sh/5/2.html
Sorry, couldn't resist. Never got those as it was a bit before my time, I started coding in 2004'ish in EU and wasn't aware of 2600 until much later. Not sure if they ever moved digital?
- can we get a whole magazine that explains ideas like this? https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
Does anyone have any idea? It was definitely when Twitter was still Twitter as I remember reaching out to them about their ASCII art.
[1]: https://phrack.org
https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/170/
(and interactions like these are part of the reason why I <3 HN)
[1]: https://thugcrowd.com/archive.html
Edit to add, apparently one of the ThugCrowd people is part of tmp.0ut so that would explain why my mind immediately went there.
> Welcome to tmp.0ut Volume 5!
They are kinda inconsistent about it, looking at the social media handles, ascii logos, etc.
I prefer to use a PC but that kind of articles are perfect to read when commuting.
You could just use <br> instead of fixed length words per line.
It's 2026 - the site can look like an old-skool zine being displayed with monospace fonts on a computer monitor and easily still have alternate formats for mobile devices. Not having it is just pure laziness.
I wouldn't mind if Reader Mode could deal with the text, but it can't. Oh well.
You can do both, achieve a cool retro style and publish in a more modern format that supports multiple output devices.