Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

hackers-1995.vercel.app

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

281–290 of 294 posts

Re: Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

#281

Post by chrisfosterelli »

Sharlin wrote: post #117
chrisfosterelli wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The movie is obviously technical garbage but one thing it did well was capture that early hacker counterculture spirit. I think a lot of us can appreciate that for the warm blanket it is and forgive its technical accuracy and story flaws.

It's not really even technical garbage. From many throwaway lines it's clear that the writers actually knew their stuff. They just chose to not make a hacking movie based on realism (because boring) but based on the zeitgeist, the computer tropes of the 80s and early 90s, and the concept of "cyberspace" as envisioned by Gibson and made its way to the collective consciousness. In a time when virtual reality and 3D gra…

Good point. By 'technical garbage' I largely meant the dated visualizations it associated with all the hacking scenes (the rapid hacking speed I can forgive for the sake of story) but TBH I never fully made the connection between 'the gibson' and william gibson -- I kind of like the idea of the hacking scenes as an exploration to gibson's ideas around cyberspace.

Re: Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

#282

Post by ddtaylor »

throaway54 wrote: post #277
ddtaylor wrote: post #193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As ytcracker says: Lost a lot of my people to drugs and jail And suicide cause we do or die Thats the way this thing goes with my crew and i But i guess that we all keep it moving right Terminal eternally but you know that i ain't sick Out here idling on my nick While i go ahead and do another magic trick I'm sorry for your loss. I've lost many to all of these. The worst is someone I was in federal prison with and wo…

ytcracker still the greatest 2/26/2026 NES forever (9'.')9 (9'.')-o

Re%

Re: Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

#283

Post by jerkstate »

telesilla wrote: post #275
rbanffy wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> crush as a young teenager was Burn Who hadn't? I was a young adult back then, but the sense of adventure in the movie brought my memories of BBSs and creative misuse of telephone lines, X.400 networks, and dial-out modems. Fun times.

I had just started getting an interest in computers and went to the cinema with my boyfriend at the time who was (and remains) a classic computer programmer. I remember sitting in the cinema with him, both of us laughing hysterically at the ridiculousness of it all. I felt like I was in the in-crowd to understand the film was all artefact and fashion, but for all that it captured something accurate about the communit…

The ad campaign was super campy, there were print ads in comic books, I remember making fun of it before the movie came out - this can’t be any good, they are going to misrepresent computer geeks, it’s going to be stupid. Of course as a teen I didn’t think it was authentic enough but over time I look at it with more respect. I showed it to my 10 year old not too long ago (forgot that there was a little nudity, oh well) and I was proud of claiming the culture it represented. The thirst for knowledge, the irreverence for authority, all of the different kinds of people making a community based on shared interest and respect, all night hackathons, the adults who just don’t get it - and yeah, the music and the fashion. That’s the stuff that matters, not a hacker using a Mac or goofy technical gibberish, and that’s the stuff they got right. It was a special moment in time, and I’m glad the movie is around to encapsulate it.

Re: Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

#284

Post by binarynate »

elric wrote: post #131

I miss the time when rollerblades seemed like the ideal mode of transport. My ankles don't.

Rollerblade technology has come a long way since then! Modern skates are much more comfortable and often use bigger wheels that make it easier to roll over rougher terrain and go fast. I get around Chicago almost exclusively through a combination of inline skates & trains (it's easy to wear skates on the trains here).

Re: Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

#285

Post by autoexec »

Forgeties79 wrote: post #267
autoexec wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even terrible practical effects can be weirdly charming though.

No less immersion breaking though. Highly doubt “weirdly charming” is the objective for most poorly done practicals!

True, but it really does hold up better than CGI. For example, a Dalek isn't really fooling anybody, but it's still far better than a CGI Scorpion King. I think it's easier for the brain to accept something as a representation of something it isn't when it's farther outside of the uncanny valley

Re: Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

#286

Post by wredcoll »

drivers99 wrote: post #253
wredcoll wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mortal Kombat ost had a ridiculous influence on my childhood music tastes, another absolutely amazing sound track is The Saint, check out the artists involved.

Interesting, I wouldn’t have thought of that one since I remember not being impressed by the movie at the time. On Wikipedia, a quote from a review said “on the whole, it's one of the few soundtracks that works better as an album than as a movie.” That tracks!

Awhh, I love the movie also. Could be a nostalgia thing but it's just fun. Val kilmer is basically always great and it's a nice mix of sort of spy movie tropes while having fun with it.

Re: Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

#287

Post by int_19h »

the_af wrote: post #87
Zaskoda wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hated this movie the first time I watched it. And the second. The third time I let go of the need for things to be realistic and took it all in as an artistic representation and snap ... I loved it. One could argue that I loved it all along given that I watched it so many times... but there was a distinct moment where I let go and that's when I was able to see just how wonderful this movie really is.

> I hated this movie the first time I watched it. And the second. The third time I let go of the need for things to be realistic and took it all in as an artistic representation and snap... I loved it. I never managed to reach your third time. Once was enough for me, at the time, to decide it was an awful movie which didn't have anything to do with hackers or computers and which was terribly overacted, and that was t…

Hackers is weird in that the tech part of it is so obviously fake, but then you have the hacker culture part that goes to the point of actually quoting a large part of the "Hacker's Manifesto" in the movie.

Re: Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

#288

Post by noperand »

vidalakistrajk wrote: post #188

Hi guys! Original creator here. I had no idea this was trending here until some people on LinkedIn wrote to me!!! I will try to make the garbage files hunt easter egg. This was an idea that started all of this but I couldn't get it to work nicely and I definitely didn't expect this much traction!

HACK THE PLANET! This is great!

You seem to have folks leveraging XSS against the leaderboard (classic!). Of course, the JSON is available via https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/api/leaderboard?limit=1000&o...). XSS in the top entry (purportedly completed in -1e+129ms) might be firing since I get redirected to the Hacker's Manifesto included in Phrack (issue #7, released 1986-09-25) ;-)

``` { "scores": [ { "alias": "\u003Cimg onerror='document.location = `https://phrack.org/issues/7/3#article`' src=a\u003ESHOUTSOUTTOPHRACK\u003C/img\u003E", "time_ms": -1e+129 } ...OTHER ATTEMPTS FOLLOW... ```

Regardless, thanks for sharing! Very cool!

Re: Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

#289

Post by int_19h »

Der_Einzige wrote: post #244
wredcoll wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is it with people feeling compelled to talk about starship troopers movie being different (lesser) than the book? Like, there's not that much to the book. It's a decently written "joins the military" story with a couple of well developed characters and one unique idea about sci-fi warfare (the suits spending most of their time jumping, which in retrospect would just make you a giant target...) None of this is ba…

Most people don’t want to admit that the author of the book wants you to take the book and movie at face value and thus the film/book are unironically right wing coded. A lot of liberals don’t want to admit that. Similarly, “they live” might have tried to pretend to be liberal coded and that might be the directors intention, but it’s schizo /pol/ right wing coded too in practice. After the Epstein stuff, we need repa…

Heinlein's political views are not exactly a secret among people who care for his books.
Post reply on HN