Show HN: Hacker Typer [joke]

olalonde · on April 25, 2011

Reminds me of good old

    hexdump -C < /dev/urandom | grep "ca fe"

pavel_lishin · on April 25, 2011

For awhile, I'd run

    hexdump -C < /dev/urandom | grep "c0 ff ee"

as a fake screensaver if I walked away from the computer for awhile, but it seems to eat processor cycles like crazy. :/

http://i.imgur.com/bSkoX.png

yuvadam · on April 25, 2011

Feature request: make every "enter" key press complete the current line.

s0urceror · on April 25, 2011

Now I can be a Hollywood movie hacker too!

fedd · on April 25, 2011

and this code should be projected on the hacker's face somehow

chopsueyar · on April 25, 2011

Where's the GUI?

schallis · on April 25, 2011

You need Visual Basic for that http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU

lsb · on April 25, 2011

There looks like a syntax error early on with the ternary operator:

  nblocks = nblocks ? : 1;

brodd · on April 25, 2011

that's actually valid C through a GCC extension: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.5.0/gcc/Conditionals.htm...

wnoise · on April 25, 2011

valid "C".

johncoltrane · on April 25, 2011

Nice! My son loves to type random gibberish in a Vim window and now he is going to type "real" code!

ludwigvan · on April 25, 2011

How does one generate random data in a computer? Put a new cs student in front of a vim screen.

(Not my joke, but can't find the original one at the moment, I guess I read it on twitter recently.)

chad_oliver · on April 25, 2011

How is the code generated? Is is scraped from publicly-accessible repositories (e.g. on github), or is it somehow generated on demand?

zacharydanger · on April 25, 2011

Looks like it's pulling from

http://duiker101.tk/hackertyper/text.txt

sp332 · on April 25, 2011

Google says it's from the Linux kernel, http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/storage-...

duiker101 · on April 25, 2011

random code taken from github, i think it was clone of some kernel from linus.

hayeah · on April 25, 2011

it would be cool if you do ngram analysis that generates code based on keystrokes

sp332 · on April 25, 2011

I'm not sure how, but I knew this was kernel code about halfway through the first function. It's strange, because I've never written any kernel code before. Is there any dead giveaway in the first function that says, "This is code from the kernel"?

bxr · on April 25, 2011

The things that stuck out to me were a kmalloc/kfree and a goto/label (which isn't the biggest giveaway, but the only C I've seen that used gotos and wasn't terrible code is the linux kernel, the goto is also used in the same style as they are in the kernel).

statictype · on April 25, 2011

    struct group_info init_groups = { .usage = ATOMIC_INIT(2) };

Is this legal ANSI C?

You can initialize structs using .field = value ? Or is something else going on here?

ramchip · on April 25, 2011

Yes, it's C99.

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/lnxpcomp/v8v101/top...

duiker101 · on April 25, 2011

http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/kernel/groups.c

this should be the file i used. seems correct that way.

teraflop · on April 25, 2011

If by ANSI C you mean C89, then no. It was added in C99. I believe the feature is technically known as a "designated initializer".

(http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/WG14/www/docs/n1256.pdf section 6.7.8)

hbz · on April 25, 2011

I loved this.

Could you please specify a monospaced font? It just feels so wrong otherwise.

duiker101 · on April 25, 2011

done!

tga · on April 26, 2011

not done!

the font is still my browser's beautiful Serif (not overridden)

duiker101 · on April 26, 2011

extreamly strange, a lot of things changed in the last 24hrs might i ask you what browser are you using?

EDIT: you were correct, my mistke, too hurry, can you check now? Thanks

skimbrel · on April 25, 2011

Is there any reason this shouldn't work on an iOS device? It's all Javascript. I just can't get my iPad to pop up a keyboard to start triggering keypress events.

incredimike · on April 25, 2011

This js simply binds an "KeyDown" event listener to the document. There are no actual input fields so an iOS device.. that's why you don't get a keyboard.

hayeah · on April 25, 2011

wow, he exactly duplicated my sentient EMACS setup! My job is jeopardize.

palish · on April 25, 2011

This is brilliant.

incredimike · on April 25, 2011

This is BS.. Hackers don't write comments!

michaelpaul · on April 25, 2011

Ok boss, i'm working hard here!

ignifero · on April 25, 2011

Wow, my typing speed has improved lately ...