Hacker Typer - now you can type like a hacker in movies

by keyle • 15 years ago

162 43 15 years ago

drKarl• 15 years ago

Funny, but I had to use it on Firefox because in Chrome I have the Vimium extension...

zcid• 15 years ago

Pentadactyl on Firefox has a pass through combination (^V - one time, ^Z continuous). Vimium might have something similar.

KaiP• 15 years ago

'i' will put you in insert mode, which should let most keypresses passthrough

tlvince• 15 years ago

Hit "i" first (to enter insert mode) and go crazy!

gulbrandr2• 15 years ago

"DB Error, overload!!!! Crap, system crashed :/"

Does not work. Site very slow. Will try later.

astrodust• 15 years ago

Just hack it and fix it.

gulbrandr2• 15 years ago

Thank you, it works fine now.

bmohlenhoff• 15 years ago

Someone must have hacked their Gibson.

orenmazor• 15 years ago

I actually bookmarked it under "Hack The Gibson"

jason_slack2• 15 years ago

Just gotta get me one of those Gibson's baby........hack some heavy metal!

nkassis• 15 years ago

"Can you jam the console with cowboys in cyberspace?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7tazcxWUwk

tuhin• 15 years ago

Is there a way for the Hacker News effect like we have Fireballed? Hackend? hacked seems miscommunication!

epochwolf• 15 years ago

I vote for hn'd

waleedka• 15 years ago

hackernewsed?

TamDenholm• 15 years ago

I've always wondered if this is the kind of things real programmers make for actors so they look like hackers in movies.

dazzawazza• 15 years ago

I friend of mine made some Macromedia Director interfaces for the Bond movies in the 90's. The more ridiculous he made it the more the director loved it. He was required on set to teach the actors what to do and to make last minute changes due to bugs/script changes.

He said it was quite boring but very well paid.

wh-uws• 15 years ago

I have been looking for how they make those ridiculous user interfaces in movies forever

Thank you!

docmarionum1• 15 years ago

High typing speeds (9001, for example) seem to cause problems.

wvl• 15 years ago

Posted 1 day ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2480946

keyle• 15 years ago

Crap. How come it didn't dupe? because I have urlwith/ ? Sorry.

beaumartinez• 15 years ago

Completely different URL.

tga• 15 years ago

Not even movie hackers type code in a variable-width font!

I think you want to also reference that home.css on the hacking page..

lewispb• 15 years ago

Right click the console text in Chrome and click Inspect Element. Right click <div id="console"> and click Add attribute. Paste the following: style="font-family: monospace"

pflats• 15 years ago

Along this line, I've always loved Nullsoft's "beep" program. It makes your (windows) computer sound like it's right out of a 70s movie.

http://www.1014.org/code/nullsoft/nbeep/

It does get annoying, obviously.

tomelders3• 15 years ago

Where are all the "bleeps" and "blooops" and "bididlybidilybidily" noises?

ultrasaurus• 15 years ago

And syntax highlighting (I'm so tempted to fork this)

codejoust3• 15 years ago

Here's my fork, the site will be on github shortly: http://codetyper.tk/

tomelders3• 15 years ago

Still no bidillybidilly boop noises though, and I don't look like a real hacker when I make those noises myself.

lwhi• 15 years ago

I think it needs to spend some time editing - cutting, pasting / deleting / correcting typos.

Surely even the best hackers sometimes make typos?

vshlos3• 15 years ago

does anyone want to make this into a screen saver? Would be pretty cool.

elliottcarlson3• 15 years ago

http://www.noisybox.net/computers/text_term/

Allows you to use text files as the source, so adding in any source code would be easy.

vshlos3• 15 years ago

last updated in 2001. Does it even still work on 64 bit win 7?

jason_slack2• 15 years ago

Ah The movie Swordfish!

BCM43• 15 years ago

This actually looks pretty similar to what I already use.

forcer• 15 years ago

this is hilarious :) When you put it on fullscreen in the browser you could do some serious acting :)

MikeW• 15 years ago

Nice easter egg when you tap alt 3 times.

elliottcarlson3• 15 years ago

Should have X amount of ACCESS DENIED's before granting you access... and instead of source there should be a honeypot log being replayed... Time to get to work...

cisco_nolove• 15 years ago

Oh Holy father in Heaven,please save HN from such noise and mess. Amen.

Hacker Typer - now you can type like a hacker in movies

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