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What’s your favourite way to hack a house?
I’m semi-asking so that if this happens again, I might know an easier way in.
"hacking a house" sounds a lot like burglery. Hide a spare key outside the house.
But I think my favorite ways are using a butter knife to jimmy locks + shimmying across a balcony/ledge with a neighbor's sword to cut my way in through an otherwise inaccessible window. Removing a door by the hinges is fun.
The easiest way to break into a home depends a lot on the home itself. You're basically memorizing the house as a system and noting what the system's weak parts are.
I locked my kid in the car recently too - found out that even regular car windows are pretty hard to break.
[1] Looks like a "brazilian trick" should be specific to cheapish doors ofc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6Ki4Uj5LAI
Btw this is the purest use of the internet... no discussion, no politics, just people needing help and thanking the guy for the help.
>hack a house
Can you just say "break into a house"? Such a weird way to put it, "hack". I get it's Hacker News, were all nerds here, but some things shouldn't be nerdwashed as a "hack", this is one of them.
As a latchkey kid before cell phones who often misplaced small objects, I've broken into my own houses/apartments fairly regularly. (Now I do the boring 'keep a spare key at work (which is within walking distance))' But I think my favorite ways are using a butter knife to jimmy locks + shimmying across a balcony/ledge with a neighbor's sword to cut my way in through an otherwise inaccessible window. Removing a door b…
probably the most interesting one I’ve ever heard!