I submitted the same wikipedia page a few months ago and it only got around half the up votes. I guess titles and timing are everything :)
Cicada 3301
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Re: Cicada 3301
#12Seems more likely that this is a group of 4channers looking to have some fun rather than a "secret think tank".
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Re: Cicada 3301
#13This is neat, but from the second paragraph of the article: According to a document posted anonymously, the puzzles are a recruiting for a "think tank." Thus far, this is unverified.[citation needed] Calling it a "secret think tank" seems disingenuous here.
agreed, these misleading titles really bug me. hackernews turning into buzzfeed?
Re: Cicada 3301
#14Seems more likely that this is a group of 4channers looking to have some fun rather than a "secret think tank".
That physical clues were distributed worldwide indicates there might be a little more to the story. Wikipedia lists the locations as
Annapolis, Maryland / Chino, California / Columbus, Georgia / Erskineville, Australia / Fayetteville, Arkansas / Granada, Spain / Greenville, Texas / Haleiwa, Hawaii / Little Rock, Arkansas / Miami, Florida / Moscow, Russia / New Orleans, Louisiana / Okinawa, Japan / Paris, France / Portland, Oregon / Seattle, Washington / Seoul, South Korea / Warsaw, Poland
I hadn't heard about this, does anybody have links to some of the original forum threads/puzzles?
Re: Cicada 3301
#15Anonymous has a great HR team
Re: Cicada 3301
#16Seems more likely that this is a group of 4channers looking to have some fun rather than a "secret think tank".
That physical clues were distributed worldwide indicates there might be a little more to the story. Wikipedia lists the locations as Annapolis, Maryland / Chino, California / Columbus, Georgia / Erskineville, Australia / Fayetteville, Arkansas / Granada, Spain / Greenville, Texas / Haleiwa, Hawaii / Little Rock, Arkansas / Miami, Florida / Moscow, Russia / New Orleans, Louisiana / Okinawa, Japan / Paris, France / Por…
How would that disprove anything? Can people from Poland not use 4chan?
Re: Cicada 3301
#17Please submit Wikipedia articles, if at all, with their original article titles. It's bad enough to have submissions of most articles from the Encyclopedia That Anyone Can Make Stuff Up In (can you tell I was just editing Wikipedia this evening, trying to fix problems), but worse when Hacker News guidelines are ignored to submit a Wikipedia article with a linkbait title. There are a few sources for this article (whic…
Personally, I'd rather see a useful title on Wikipedia submissions (I'm not saying the particular title chosen in this case was useful).
For submissions of magazine or blog articles, the original title policy makes sense usually, because magazine and blog authors or editors choose titles designed to catch the reader's interest.
Wikipedia titles are more names than titles. They are meant to allow people who are already looking for information on the thing in the title. When a Wikipedia article is submitted with the Wikipedia title, there is usually nothing that tells me why I might find it interesting.
I'd like to see HN allow submitters to include a one line statement saying what is interesting about the submission.
Re: Cicada 3301
#18I have decided, arbitrarily, that Cicada/3301 is Satoshi. That was their first project (Bitcoin).
Re: Cicada 3301
#19Seems more likely that this is a group of 4channers looking to have some fun rather than a "secret think tank".
That physical clues were distributed worldwide indicates there might be a little more to the story. Wikipedia lists the locations as Annapolis, Maryland / Chino, California / Columbus, Georgia / Erskineville, Australia / Fayetteville, Arkansas / Granada, Spain / Greenville, Texas / Haleiwa, Hawaii / Little Rock, Arkansas / Miami, Florida / Moscow, Russia / New Orleans, Louisiana / Okinawa, Japan / Paris, France / Por…
I would have thought that makes it more likely to be from 4chan folks - no intelligence agency or think tank would recruit that broadly.