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Posted by todsacerdoti 10 hours ago

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience(hackers-1995.vercel.app)
316 points | 177 commentspage 2
TheSilva 8 hours ago|
Sadly, looking through the code, doesn't show up any "GARBAGE" file easter egg to be found.

Amazing stuff, nevertheless!

ordinarily 7 hours ago||
Awhile I made something really dumb: https://www.warpstream.com/etc/terminal you can enter a 'gibson' command.
maqp 3 hours ago||
Nice touch with the IP :D
whynotmaybe 8 hours ago||
Thanks, I've been looking for 5 minutes and was about to rewatch the movie to see where it's supposed to be !
TheSilva 8 hours ago||
I mean, you should totally go and rewatch it, don't let me stop you from enjoying again the movie!
avsn 3 hours ago||
This movie changed my life. Saw it when I was probably 7-8 years old for the first time and been watching and rewatching it ever since. The actors, the soundtrack, the costumes, everything is perfect in this film. Huge inspiration.
syx 6 hours ago||
Last month they had a rerun of the movie at the cinema in Dublin (IE) and went to see it with a friend. It was such a surreal experience because after watching it on my laptop so many times I could hear the laughter and the jokes of the audience on the cheesy hacking scenes, it was like watching the movie in 4D, I enjoyed it a lot!

I even brought my PowerBook Duo 280c along with me

Panino 6 hours ago|
Watching with a big public group of people you mostly don't know but maybe should is a special experience. This may depend on region, but in the US there used to be frequent midnight openings for superfans like myself. People dress up in costumes, local shops hand out prizes and it's an event. Saw Phantom Menace this way, LOTR, Watchmen, and maybe others, but I haven't seen a midnight opening offered in years. Maybe the theater managers are swimming in the pool on the roof.
kstrauser 16 minutes ago||
In San Francisco, DNA Lounge has an annual event where they decorate the whole place as Cyberdelia. I never miss it if I can help.

A couple years ago my friend and I dressed as FBI agents. It was great fun.

ultrahax 2 hours ago||
12 year old me watched this movie and immediately went out and bought colored floppy disks so I too could hack the planet. Simpler times.
mackman 7 hours ago||
OK who is gonna turn this into a functional terminal emulator for me?
clickety_clack 5 hours ago||
I want to visualize real data this way for when business users come over to my desk and ask for something.
shmerl 3 hours ago||
Not exactly, but there is cool retro term: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
JaggedJax 7 hours ago||
Love it, what a great throwback, especially with the OST.

In Firefox is there a way to play this without FF popping up the search box on every key press? Maybe there's a way for the JS to override the default FF search functionality?

pja 5 hours ago|
Doesn’t do that for me. Have you got some oddball extension installed or something?
JaggedJax 5 hours ago||
Found that this is a Firefox setting, maybe it's not (no longer) defaulted to on.

"Search for text when you start typing"

I have to say, I do like this setting enabled, but can see how it conflicts with the page. And let's be fair, how much time and I saving over having to press Ctrl+F when I want to search a page?

stack_framer 3 hours ago||
I wish there was a way to straighten myself out after I drag with the mouse or use the A/D keys to move left or right. I was expecting to be able to turn left or right, and weave through the servers (or whatever they are), as opposed to drifting left/right and eventually getting stuck.
echelon_musk 7 hours ago||
> You're gonna love New York. It's the city that never sleeps.
shon 8 hours ago||
The Gibson! Very cool. did you make this?

I made a Tron lightcycle game: https://new.af/tron

Now that AI accelerates dev so much, I suspect we'll get to see a lot of cool throwbacks.

vor_ 5 hours ago||
> Now that AI accelerates dev so much

Then where's the massive explosion of software?

whynotmaybe 8 hours ago|||
While we're at it, I remember an atari st game that was like the tron lightcycle as "Trek4".

Did it really exist ?

kayge 5 hours ago|||
Was it maybe called Surround? Try looking up Atari catalog # CX2641 and see if it brings back any more memories :)
shon 8 hours ago|||
Hmm I had an ST. I think I vaguely remember this. Was it a PD game or commercial?
whynotmaybe 7 hours ago||
Only thing I can remember is a blue 3½ floppy with "trek4" handwritten on it so it must have been "found" by my relative that owned the st at the time.
swah 8 hours ago||
That runs super smoothly!
shon 8 hours ago||
Thanks! working on multiplayer now...
nickthegreek 8 hours ago|
I highly recommend the 88 films 4k blu-ray release for those who love Hackers. I recently was able to purchase an unopened VHS tape as well. I have a brand new VCR coming so I can have a proper experience.
ganoushoreilly 7 hours ago||
I have a couple copies of the laserdiek variants, always felt like the best tech to show homage.
nickthegreek 51 minutes ago||
I didn’t know it was released on laserdisc! Looks like the going rate is around $100 US.
sophacles 6 hours ago||
The proper experience is to copy it onto an old VHS, worn out and a bit stretched in places. Play it for the umpteenth time on a 1980s VCR feeding a fuzzy old tv in the basement for background noise (and a killer sound track) as you beat your head against a crt monitor wondering why your code won't compile.

Bonus points if you pause to watch the movie and wonder "how have I seen this movie countless times and only just now noticed there's a 6th hacker in the 'main' crew?".

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