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Posted by speerer 14 hours ago

Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt(tris.sherliker.net)
1257 points | 201 commentspage 6
tantalor 11 hours ago|
TIL Consolas is a Windows font
busymom0 6 hours ago||
> I’ve no idea at all how many views this site gets, but I’m willing to bet it’s not even double-digit humans per month.

I'd take that bet considering it's got close to thousand upvotes and on front page of HN

Brian_K_White 6 hours ago||
I want to submit a pr to s/SIGINT/0

You want to do that cleanup regardless why you exit.

brcmthrowaway 6 hours ago||
Whats going on with Uniqlo? Is it still popular in the US?
mgaunard 8 hours ago||
how is it obfuscated? It's literally written as plain black monospace text on a white background.

Pretty sure any AI can solve it in 20 seconds.

sanmarzano 8 hours ago|
It’s encoded not obfuscated. It’s even commented, which is the opposite of obfuscated. Plus it’s not really an Easter egg that was found: it is literally printed in a shirt. Easter eggs are supposed to be hidden and either only found by insider knowledge or deep investigation. This was neither.
mschuster91 8 hours ago||
> # Hide the cursor \ tput civis

Never thought I'd learn shell tricks from the back of a fast-fashion t-shirt, but here we are.

koiueo 11 hours ago||
> I ran OCR in a few ways: First, using the built-in OCR of the circle-to-search feature on Android, which is often very good. Second, by using Tesseract with a few options and tweaks. And third by running it through Claude. After diffing the three to look for mismatches and getting Claude to output a table of locations for quick scanning, it became trivial but time-consuimg to tidy up the remainder

I bet 10$ I'd spend less time typing it from the t-shirt. And I wouldn't boil two kettles of water in the process.

But hey, AI makes you 10x more productive, I suppose

speerer 10 hours ago||
(Author here) for unrelated reasons my typing is very slow at the moment, so I was keen to automate. I see that people are getting different results from Claude than I did though.
freedomben 10 hours ago||
You may want to retract that bet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48830846
koiueo 10 hours ago||
Yeah, I read that later.

My bet is against manual OCR with various engines + finding mistakes later using an LLM.

bigfishrunning 9 hours ago||
I'd rather find the mistakes with my human brain. Keeps me limber. I might even accidentally learn something.
rsr 8 hours ago||
more like Tristan Shirt-liker, am I right?
breppp 12 hours ago||
Feels very reminiscent of the style of old DeCSS tshirts

https://www.wired.com/2000/08/court-to-address-decss-t-shirt...

moralestapia 9 hours ago|
Thanks for doing this, I almost bought it just to decode it, lol.
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