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fiedziatoday at 7:56 AM8 repliesview on HN

I like to pause movies when some code is shown and see what it is. Apparently you can break into pentagon by knowing basic sql and high-level employees have alternate life writing tcp implementations and graphics libraries.


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couttoday at 9:22 AM

Occasionally there are some real treats in those snippets. I remember being floored when Trinity exploited a real ssh v1 bug in Matrix Reloaded.

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sunrunnertoday at 9:28 AM

I always liked the code Easter egg in Ex Machina. A scene with Caleb has a Python script visible on screen that, when run, prints:

  ISBN = 9780199226559
This is Murray Shanahan’s Embodiment and the inner life: Cognition and Consciousness in the Space of Possible Minds, quite relevant to the film.
TACDtoday at 8:07 AM

There’s a Tumblr for that: https://www.tumblr.com/moviecode

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WalterBrighttoday at 4:52 PM

Well, at least movies no longer run the ka-chunka-ka-chunka ASR-33 teletype sounds when showing text on a screen.

ikari_pltoday at 8:31 AM

I felt like a movie hacker when doing literal

SELECT * FROM military_bases

On a public dataset :)

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sureglymoptoday at 8:17 AM

Do we actually think you couldn't though? Probably unintentionally accurate.

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thunderbongtoday at 11:38 AM

Also hackers in movies never use a mouse!

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ramon156today at 8:08 AM

Render your local file tree, win a free pentagon entry