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Textify: Convert images to HTML text 15 years ago

http://textify.it/js/hakim.textify.min.js: "Recreates bitmap images using HTML text. Images are drawn onto a canvas element so that the pixels can be read. Letters, with colors matching the image pixels, are then placed at random locations on the screen."

Looks like it also uses dat.gui for drawing.

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FBI: If We Told You . . . (Part II) 15 years ago

In other words: The only way we can obtain this information is to not tell what what information we're obtaining.

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Osama bin Laden raid yields trove of (not encrypted?) computer data. 15 years ago

Not all super villains have tech goons that read Hacker News

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Ask HN: How has the Amazon AWS outage affected you? 15 years ago

I manage four EC2s all with EBS and located on the east coast; luckily haven't had any issues.

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