The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago • Hacker News Board

Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago

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Post by rz30221 » Fri, Sep 16, 2022, 4:39 PM UTC

ramesh31 wrote: post #40

claudiulodro wrote: post #34

Between Hackers, Masters of Doom, and other rad 90s hacker-coder media, software development really seemed like a much more awesome career than it turned out to be. If I had a time machine I would warn young me that it's really more like a combination of Office Space and Wolf of Wall Street. It would be awesome to listen to Prodigy or Megadeth while hackin' with the gang though. I'm still down for that if it exists s…

>Between Hackers, Masters of Doom, and other rad 90s hacker-coder media, software development really seemed like a much more awesome career than it turned out to be. I think it comes down to the fact that our industry has become rigid and beholden to the university education system. John Carmack and John Romero were both college dropouts. Their stories would probably be impossible today. What we have now is a world o…

Industry, for the most part, needs predictability and scale for it to function well. It's very difficult to accomplish that without at least some rigidity.

Punk rock is small by definition. Once it becomes large it changes to mainstream.

Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago

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Post by dpkirchner » Fri, Sep 16, 2022, 4:40 PM UTC

fodmap wrote: post #118

eimrine wrote: post #2

Hackers and Sneakers are maybe the only decent movies about so-called hackers.

'23' is a great movie. 'Who am I' deserves a mention too.

Do you have any tips for finding 23 with English subtitles? Obviously I'm trying Google (and excluding "Number 23" and attempting to exclude "23 blast" (Google is treating my minus as a plus when excluding both)).

Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago

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Post by doublerabbit » Fri, Sep 16, 2022, 4:43 PM UTC

Yo! Check this out. This is insanely great. It's got a 28.8 bps modem.

One of my favs:

The Plague: We are samurai. The keyboard cowboys. And all those other people who have no idea what's going on are the cattle. Moo.

Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago

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Post by zhte415 » Fri, Sep 16, 2022, 4:43 PM UTC

dehrmann wrote: post #129

claudiulodro wrote: post #34

Between Hackers, Masters of Doom, and other rad 90s hacker-coder media, software development really seemed like a much more awesome career than it turned out to be. If I had a time machine I would warn young me that it's really more like a combination of Office Space and Wolf of Wall Street. It would be awesome to listen to Prodigy or Megadeth while hackin' with the gang though. I'm still down for that if it exists s…

The author of American Psycho said this: > I think that if I had written the book in the past decade, perhaps Bateman would have been working in Silicon Valley, living in Cupertino with excursions into San Francisco or down to Big Sur to the Post Ranch Inn and palling around with Zuckerberg and dining at the French Laundry, or lunching with Reed Hastings at Manresa in Los Gatos, wearing a Yeezy hoodie and teasing gir…

I'm surprised he said that as Glamorama would seem an almost perfect fit. Perhaps too perfect.

Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago

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Post by wslh » Fri, Sep 16, 2022, 4:45 PM UTC

I am really curious: what do you find interesting about this movie in comparison with Sneakers (advised by Leonard Alemán [1]) and War Games? I don't remember any takeaway from Hackers.

[1] https://molecularscience.usc.edu/sneakers/

Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago

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Post by par » Fri, Sep 16, 2022, 4:48 PM UTC

I saw this movie in theaters and reviewed it for my 8th grade newspaper. :)

Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago

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Post by colordrops » Fri, Sep 16, 2022, 4:50 PM UTC

cantSpellSober wrote: post #85

colordrops wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not a movie but have you seen Mr. Robot?

Fight Club is the same plot in movie form right? Unreliable narrator, secret society (starting with "F") of anarcho-capitalists bent on bringing down Big Credit, cheesy hacking lingo etc?

The creator of the show doesn't hide that Fight Club is an influence.

The hacker stuff is pretty legit though. Characters use Termux on their phones, Kali Linux, python scripts etc

Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago

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Post by kloch » Fri, Sep 16, 2022, 4:51 PM UTC

Everyone knows Angelina Jolie, but did you know Jonny Lee Miller (Zero Cool) has had a prodigious acting career after Hackers?

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001538/

My favorite character of his was Sherlock Holmes in "Elementary"

Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago

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Post by jrnichols » Fri, Sep 16, 2022, 5:00 PM UTC

eimrine wrote: post #2

Hackers and Sneakers are maybe the only decent movies about so-called hackers.

"Antitrust" was a fun movie as well.

Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago

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Post by munificent » Fri, Sep 16, 2022, 5:04 PM UTC

onychomys wrote: post #69

hericium wrote: post #56

Hah. Just yesterday I was contemplating how awful Angelina Jolie's character's handle "Acid Burn" was. Like - who the fuck would choose such nickname for themselves? Other than that - cult movie. Love it. Awesome soundtrack, not that bad acting and not that bad script for back when computers and internet were hip, not just the usual thing. "Hackers" caricaturally but still somewhat properly presents the phreaking cul…

I think we all had some screen names in high school that seem pretty terrible now.

Back when I was sixteen, I hung out with this kind of crowd and most of the usernames were about how dangerous/scary/bad the person was. I thought it would be funny to deliberately choose a username that was the exact opposite of all of that.

Thirty years later, I'm still using it.