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Posted by todsacerdoti 19 hours ago

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience(hackers-1995.vercel.app)
441 points | 226 commentspage 7
anthk 16 hours ago|
I like Wargames much more. Still, people is right that we should take the 'hacking' (cracking) scenes artistically, as a metaphor on what's happening inside the mind of a cracker.
thr0waway001 12 hours ago|
If a movie ever had the balls to show real hacking people would see how utterly f cking boring and uncool it looks.

It’s like prog rock. By and large, hot chicks are interested in bands like Motley Crue and Bon Jovi.

But prog rock never got chicks wet. It was always music by nerds for other nerds.

I think a realistic movie about hacking would be the same. By and large.

dylan604 12 hours ago|||
The most interesting thing to show in film would be social engineering aspects. The actual hacking of spending time on the computer is always going to be boring command line stuff. At least Mr. Robot used real commands.
anthk 1 hour ago|||
Indeed; music wise for actual hacking (old meaning) it would be some 9front setup (either themeless defaults or something bland with yellow background for terminal windows, as if they were mundane sticky notes) and Muzak; for cracking either industrial metal or some progresive Jazz which would still sound cool and elegant in some parts. For really odd hacks and cracks the music from Twin Peaks wuold be ideal.

For the cool stuff, well, the Demoscene it's like that. Or stuff from https://t3x.org, or the small tools from gopher://hoi.st and tons of weird 9front new tools such as the GeFS filesystem, the future gpufs, using remote devices as if they were the local ones in the computer and whatnot. Ditto with Subleq and EForth which is perfect foror something like Jarre.

29athrowaway 17 hours ago||
This is good progress but the 1995 movie is still superior.

There many details in the movie, like the sound of electricity going through the circuit, the camera path is more like a spline with rotations in more axis, etc.

It does perform really good on mobile.

stewartjarod 17 hours ago||
LOVELY :D
RRRA 17 hours ago||
Now add a flashing red box with:

/root/.workspace/garbage

(was that it?) and a VJ mode that scrolls around to the beat and you have something for the next party!

RazerWazer 15 hours ago||
You have now become The Plague.
fvv 16 hours ago||
wonderful
pjmlp 17 hours ago||
"RISC architecture is gonna change everything." :)
apgwoz 17 hours ago||
Easily the most quoted part of the film, aside from “Hack the planet!!!!” … but also an amazing prediction! All the devices in our pockets are RISC machines. That did change everything.
pjmlp 17 hours ago|||
I was going for the books initially, but isn't as much fun.

Regarding RISC, kind of, there have been compromises in the instruction sets.

kstrauser 9 hours ago||||
For me it's "Never fear. I... is here."
dylan604 12 hours ago|||
I feel like god!
thr0waway001 12 hours ago||
Me: [thinking about how to get with the hot Romulan looking chick]

Me also: yah RISC is good!

pjmlp 12 hours ago||
Yeah, that scene is interesting. :)
0xcb0 17 hours ago||
I love it. Hack the planet. Thank you so much.
bitwize 17 hours ago||
"Okay, we need proof that we were here... right uh... Okay, yeah, Garbage, gimme Garbage."

My wife and I both love this movie. I thought it was cheesy and unrealistic when it dropped, but it's reflective of a mid-90s era when technology was something to be excited about and there was a lot of hype about "cyberspace" and such nonsense. That's also when I got into internetworking, Linux, and all that stuff. And electronic music. Hackers made people with my interests seem way cooler and sexier than we really were.

gritspants 17 hours ago|
As far as 90's cyber films go it was probably The Net that had the most realistic vision of the future. Workin from home, ordering pizza.
bitwize 17 hours ago||
I realized the other day that Hackers doesn't really have a depiction of the social milieu of the elite hacker—the BBS. But The Net kinda does. So, point to The Net.
throwaway314155 10 hours ago|
Am I the only one who vehemently despised this movie?
BLKNSLVR 6 minutes ago||
Yes, you are the only one who is wrong ;)
cindyllm 10 hours ago||
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