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Welcome to Suricrasia Online! is a personal blog at suricrasia.online about security and writing. Since 2020, 40 different Hacker News readers have linked it 53 times, most often “Basilisk Collection – A Hard Sci-Fi Story About SHA-256”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- Basilisk Collection – A Hard Sci-Fi Story About SHA-25615 people · 16 mentions · first linked 2021-02-14
- The cursed computer iceberg meme (2021)14 people · 17 mentions · first linked 2021-04-11
- CSC218 Software Precognance [pdf]4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-08-27
- CSS Puzzle Box 2.03 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-02-24
- Making Amulets with Llama 22 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-27
What Hacker News says?
Another impressive CSS creation -- CSS Puzzle Box: https://suricrasia.online/puzzlebox/
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on “CSS Minecraft”Submitted The cursed computer iceberg meme (2021) as a story · 341 points
HN discussionSounds like the basilisk collection: https://suricrasia.online/unfiction/basilisk/
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on “The image in this post displays its own MD5 hash”Submitted The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme as a story · 307 points
HN discussionYep, that's where I got my inspiration (and some CSS) from, and I also link to it in the footer on my site: https://suricrasia.online/iceberg/ :)
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on “Text editing hates you too (2019)”Submitted Basilisk Collection – A Hard Sci-Fi Story About SHA-256 as a story · 22 points
HN discussionAh, found it in search. It was this one: The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme https://suricrasia.online/iceberg/
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on “Text editing hates you too (2019)”Submitted Opus Databending Drumkit as a story · 17 points
HN discussionThere was another story on the same site [1] that involves thermodynamics and signal processing. I don't think I've seen such technical sci-fi before. Anybody else have more examples to share? [1]: https://suricrasia.online/unfiction/CSC218-Software-Precogna...
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on “The cursed computer iceberg meme (2021)”Submitted Basilisk Collection as a story · 9 points
HN discussionThis website is incredibly good. Reminds me of qntm. https://suricrasia.online/unfiction/CSC218-Software-Precogna...
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on “The cursed computer iceberg meme (2021)”Submitted I Found Evidence of My House Spinning as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThe fictional article https://suricrasia.online/unfiction/basilisk/ is one the best written computer science/cryptography SCP like articles I've ever read. What I loved is that: $ echo -en 'basilisk:0000000000:ds26ovbJzDwkVWia1tINLJZ2WXEHBvItMZRxHmYhlQd0spuvPXb6cYFJorDKkqlA' | openssl dgst -sha256 -binary | openssl dgst -sha256 (stdin)= 0000000000000000000000161b9f84a187cc21b172bf68b3cb3b78684d8e9f17 actually works,…
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on “The cursed computer iceberg meme (2021)”Submitted Basilisk Collection as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFont hinting is already turing complete[0]. (I learned about the in this[1] iceberg meme) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueType#Hinting_language [1] https://suricrasia.online/iceberg/
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on “Color fonts on Google Fonts”Submitted CSS Puzzle Box 2.0 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionaside from the question of novelty, i think i can buy a pocket am/fm radio for us$6 today https://articulo.mercadolibre.com.ar/MLA-917855935-radio-por... so building a radio from scratch doesn't have the same cachet it had in the 01950s when a radio was a major household appliance people would save up for you can definitely kit-build an am or fm radio from a kit without any understanding of the concepts, the radiosh…
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on “A requiem for amateur chemistry”Submitted Basilisk Collection as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFrom the cursed computer iceberg posted the other week, "font hinting is Turing complete". https://suricrasia.online/iceberg/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueType#Hinting_language
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on “The handshake emoji is more complicated than you might think”Submitted The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWith the Basilisk collection ( https://suricrasia.online/unfiction/basilisk/ ), this is the second time this month that I get fooled by a hoax! My disappointment is big every time
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on “The Mandelbrot Monk (1999)”Submitted Basilisk Collection (2021) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou might enjoy ‘Basilisk collection’. https://suricrasia.online/unfiction/basilisk/
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on “Amulet – a short poem with a lucky SHA-256 hash”Submitted The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNo we haven't, but it was largely inspired by https://suricrasia.online/iceberg/
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on “The C++ Iceberg”Submitted The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI think it's rather crude and inefficient to generate several translations with a prompt. Can't we just sample different "branches" of successive tokens with some mechanism for ensuring diversity like [1] did? This would allow the user to edit a handful of words/phrases/sentences and guide the LLM towards a more idiomatic translation. This may even give smaller local models a chance. [1] https://suricrasia.online/bl…
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on “Translating blog posts with GPT-4, or: on hope and fear”Submitted Turning a Keyboard into a Mouse with Libevdev as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://icebergcharts.com Iceberg Charts are an information format in which the most well-known/popular information is placed in the top tier, and each level down ever less known and finally obscure information is placed that only subject matter experts are aware of. This makes it an interesting structure to explore and learn more about topics one isn't too familiar with. This work was inspired by suricrasia's "Curs…
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on “Ask HN: What is your current side-project?”Submitted The Basilisk Collection as a story · 2 points
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