SOsogen·Mar 17, 2026Submission
No More Secrets – A command line tool that recreates the effect seen in Sneakers
2 points · Open discussionbartobri
no-more-secrets
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bartobri / no-more-secrets
no-more-secrets
A command line tool that recreates the famous data decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers.
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A command line tool that recreates the famous data decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers.
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| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 3 | 3 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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18 sourcesLinux Command Line: No More Secrets
5 points · Open discussionSomeone released this a few years back.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36799776
https://github.com/bartobri/no-more-secrets
In Robert Redford has diedthere's a nice app that "emulates" this movie
https://github.com/bartobri/no-more-secrets
In Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negativeThere are a couple of command line play-things to recreate that effect, here's one:
https://github.com/bartobri/no-more-secrets
In Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negativeYour comparison is a bit disingenuous. I thought that the reasonable point of comparison was obvious, so let me state it in case it's not:
* For this C program: Let's say a default install of a Debian system, with GCC and Make installed. Nothing else. Just clone and run make && ./bin/nms.
* For an hypothetical JavaScript implementation: Same Debian system, with Node.js installed. Nothing else. Just clone and run node ./src/nms.js.
Now tell me that the second point would ever happen, of course without the obvious trick of vendoring tens or hundreds of dependencies in the repo itself. Given the current trends and ecosystem incentives in the JS development world, I highly doubt it.
These trends only favor mindless composition, of which the latter is good, but the former is bad. IMHO most devs would probably not even consider the idea of writ
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ing a compact, self-contained piece of code and have their own termio [1] or charset [2] implementations, to begin with.
[1]: https://github.com/bartobri/no-more-secrets/blob/master/src/...
[2]: https://github.com/bartobri/no-more-secrets/blob/master/src/...
I expected to have bad luck on my Mac, but I ran:
git clone https://github.com/bartobri/no-more-secrets.git
cd no-more-secrets
make
./bin/nms
It worked!
In No-more-secrets: recreate the decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie SneakersNo-more-secrets: recreate the decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers
1,002 points · Open discussionTo fellow lovers of that film: allow me to introduce you to No More Secrets, an implementation of the decryption effect shown in the film.
https://github.com/bartobri/no-more-secrets
In My collection of fun and interesting hacking/coding movies and literatureahhh missing a great effect
https://github.com/bartobri/no-more-secrets
In Clear Your Terminal in StyleCLI command to simulate “Sneakers” encryption
2 points · Open discussionIndeed 'Sneakers' is a good hacker movie by all means. It even give us a Perl script at some point AFAIK.
There is another movie called "Travelling Salesman" where a few mathematicians solve P vs NP and explain the possible implications to a federal agent who wants to exploit their breakthroughs.
ps. Awesome script to play hacker while people is looking at your shell https://github.com/bartobri/no-more-secrets
In Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood HackerWhy do you link to this third-party site that provides nothing more than a single link? Why not linking to the project directly?
https://github.com/bartobri/no-more-secrets
Apart from that, the old entry has already been submitted some time ago, this is the previous discussion on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11643270
In Hacking into the Federal ReserveTool Recreating the “Decrypting Text” Effect Seen in the Movie “Sneakers”
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