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Re: Ask HN: Show me your Half Baked project

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Ha ha. Comment of the year.

Okay, I know this is a reply to a pg post. And that complaining about downvoting is poor HN etiquette. I realize that therefore, this post is double sacrilege. I am choosing to note right here that I'm quite tired of the uptight comment nazis on this site. I THINK IT'S THE COMMENT OF THE YEAR SO GO FUCK YOURSELVES

The thing is, if we stop downvoting comments like the one you posted (even though it was a completely harmless comment), people would start to think such comments are acceptable and we'd soon have useless comments on HN that would add absolutely no value to the discussion.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your Half Baked project

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post #36

regvex.py -- http://gist.github.com/641688 Regvex is a proof of concept timing attack against regex engines. To make a long story short, the timing characteristics of regex engines make it perfectly suited to timing attacks, allowing you to (locally or remotely) create data that matches a given regex, and potentially even reconstruct the actual regex you're matching against. The current version works locally against…

http://emerose.com/timing-attacks-explained

For others, this helped me understand the basis of timing attacks.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your Half Baked project

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post #95

http://www.triviathing.com - Trivia game inspired by IRC trivia bots. Very early, still needs a TON of questions, and a handful of bugfixes. But it's semi-functional, and I've played it with my friends and family for a smashing good time (until we start getting duplicates).

Yeah, including a bugfix for it to work on Chrome in Linux. I choose a game, submit, then get a blank page with just the header.

Thank you for the feedback. It's worth noting that if you don't have flash, it won't work. It currently relies on flash for persistent socket connections. I'm working on getting it working with websockets.

But it should work on chrme, which is also my browser of choice.

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