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 greggman3 » Sat, Sep 17, 2022, 8:00 AM UTC

ramesh31 wrote: post #205

greggman3 wrote: post #120

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What part of their story are you referring to? There are lots of indie devs that appear to be having great fun making games and doing well to boot. Valheim, Black Rock Galactic, Celeste, Dead Cells, Papers Please, Stardew Valley, Enter the Gungeon, Don't Starve, Undertale, etc. were all pretty bit hits, certainly made their developers millions of dollars, and AFAIK the developers were having fun making them.

> There are lots of indie devs that appear to be having great fun making games and doing well to boot. See: the other posters comment about small profitable bootstrapped businesses being the only way to do this now. Successful indie devs are an anomaly. But my point was more that companies are far more risk averse these days than to let a group like Romero et. al. run loose on a new product idea without strict contro…

I guess I'm not aware of their history. I thought they (Carmack and Romero) were indie bootstrapped business. Their success is being repeated today by 10x to 20x the indie teams, or so it seems to me.

Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago

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Post by linsomniac » Sat, Sep 17, 2022, 1:54 PM UTC

ryandrake wrote: post #146

linsomniac wrote: post #141

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Very much agree, many people I've talked to about Hackers don't seem to get this "it shows what it feels like", and get hung up on interpreting details literally, like the favorite complaint "screens don't project a sharp image onto the wall behind you". I also like Swordfish for this. Him dancing at the keyboard while programming is very much what it feels like when you have a good hack going.

I suppose it all depends on when you grew up and got into computers. I always thought Hackers feeling/vibe was kind of clowny and not representative of computer enthusiasts and hackers. The hackers I grew up exposed to (mid-80s, early-90s) were not cool kids riding rollerblades with wacky hairstyles saying "duuuuuude" and listening to techno. Wargames and Sneakers were a lot closer to the actual vibe. Normal clothes,…

For reference, I grew up and got into computers in the mid-80s. Yes, Sneakers and War Games was much more like what my reality was, though even more boring and low key. But, I'm still going to go with Hackers being much more like what I felt like inside. :-)

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago

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Post by e12e » Sun, Sep 18, 2022, 12:59 AM UTC

eimrine wrote: post #2

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

I reco the German "23" (not that horrible American flick).

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0126765/

Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago

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Post by actionfromafar » Mon, Sep 19, 2022, 9:11 AM UTC

j0hnyl wrote: post #202

actionfromafar wrote: post #147

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I think many of us believed that for sure we are going to be the cool ones but we actually turned out more like Office Space people. Not everyone is Crash Override.

A lot of us are crash override when we are 16 years old. Life beats it out of us though.

A sequel/followup to Hackers today could be awesome. The characters all got the override beaten out of them by life. Rallied back together for one last mission.

Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago

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Post by sleepybrett » Mon, Sep 19, 2022, 2:14 PM UTC

motohagiography wrote: post #75

Ripe fromage. If I were writing the sequel, it would be a series, and it would be about how they grew up and now they all work leading security at platform companies and government agencies. While reversing a worm that was unleashed by trolls to sabotage a social-credit/Nosedive-like app, Kate/acidburn finds the encoded string "that place where I put that thing that time," which has to be a reference to their old cre…

So .. kinda just a remake of sneakers?

Re: The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago

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Post by devinegan » Fri, Sep 23, 2022, 10:09 PM UTC

nvarsj wrote: post #170

pixelpoet wrote: post #106

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I literally listened to Halcyon & on & on for something like 2 years on loop while teaching myself programming in QBasic and assembly language.

Orbital recently released a great remix of it on 30 Something. The original is one of my favourite songs of all time.

Thanks, enjoying this remix album!