The answer they're looking for is Moon, despite the moon not being a night-specific phenomenon. Other things that lighten the night, that they aren't looking for, include stars, light pollution, lighting, love and laughter.
No idea for the above. Reference to the t29 heavy tank? "Black" T in 1929? Nothing is coming up. Black Tuesday/Black Thursday of 1929 wasn't it either.
The numbers are each in pairs and each pair doesn't exceed 26 (the number of letters in the alphabet). a = 01, z = 26. Convert the number pairs to letters, you get
The letters represent locations on a QWERTY keyboard. If you draw out one "word" at a time, you get patterns that look (... if you squint a little) like T X C C.
No, simply because HN doesn't have the culture of "Here's a problem, let's collaborate on it". We're much more likely to discuss the problem itself and discuss the pros and cons of different approaches.
If you ask for help with a specific problem you'll probably get it, but I don't think there's the same viewpoint that if a puzzle is posted we need to solve it as a collective as quickly as possible.
If you post on HN about a problem, you'll likely get 1 useful answer and 6 answers pointing out that your problem is symptomatic of a wrongheaded approach and you should be doing something else instead :)
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[ 5.1 ms ] story [ 243 ms ] thread"15" was accepted, though. Manual password guessing is not much fun - reminds me of school too much.
struggling on this one.. (not morse code)
e: got it, thanks!
(collab effort crowdwiz bruteforce yay)
RWluc3RlaW4ncy4
97...98...99...00
res = (1..20000).to_a.map { |val| val * val * val }
res.select { |a| res.any? { |b| (b - a) == 1729 } }
No idea for the above. Reference to the t29 heavy tank? "Black" T in 1929? Nothing is coming up. Black Tuesday/Black Thursday of 1929 wasn't it either.
Answer is "wall street"
antarctica
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OK!
Not sure if it matters, but HN won't let me format it the way it's presented. There are five words/commands to a line.
take all numbers, substract 5, get
SEVENDANGER
#33 - european union
#34 - horror movie
#35 - corpus christi
#36 - world war
#37 - plato
#38 - isaac newton
#39 - johann sebastian
Anyways, #39 was just solved.
http://boards.4chan.org/sci/thread/9202862#p9203437
Never change, 4chan. Never change.
Not sure what though
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Chase
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan_F._Stone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Hunt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associate_Justice_of_the_Supre...
Edit: besides, we are to collab, not compete.
If you ask for help with a specific problem you'll probably get it, but I don't think there's the same viewpoint that if a puzzle is posted we need to solve it as a collective as quickly as possible.