Hackers (8/13) Movie CLIP - Hack the Gibson (1995) HD
Why Hacker News recommends it
Used mostly as a punchline or example of cheesy, unrealistic Hollywood depictions of hacking and over-stylized tech UIs.
What it is
A short clip from the 1995 film Hackers in which the characters attempt to hack the Gibson supercomputer, shown with flashy stylized visuals of digital intrusion.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2016 to 2026.
What Hacker News said
Cites needz · 2018-06 · on “Revisting Neuromancer After Three Decades”
The book was released in 1984. Could it be that his descriptions of tech were just true to the times? I imagine his stylistic embellishments were also important in the same way older movies about technology (e.g. Hackers[0]) stylize digital events. [0]: [this video]
Critical cmdrfred · 2016-09 · on “'Mr. Robot' may be fiction, but its hacking plots are all too real”
I only watched a few episodes, but the whole "She needs to learn to hack in 24 hours" bullshit was a little too much for me. Everything she was doing could have been a script. There was 0 reason to have her punching in commands like that, and either way that's simply using Linux. 'python hack-it.py' would have sufficed. If you haven't seen it, it wasn't much better than this: [this video] and at least that was entertaining.
Critical touristtam · 2016-09 · on “'Mr. Robot' may be fiction, but its hacking plots are all too real”
> 'python hack-it.py' would have sufficed. If you haven't seen it, it wasn't much better than this: [this video] and at least that was entertaining. Hacker (film) was painful to watch. So much cheesyness.
Critical jl2718 · 2021-10 · on “MorphCharts”
These are great to look at for something like tornado data, specifically because you probably don’t care at all about what the data tells you. For a while I was a data science consultant and then chief data scientist at a major organization, and all throughout, the most common request was for an interface that looked like “Minority Report”. I don’t even remember what that was, but, in almost all cases, these visualizations are something like corporate edutainment. If you are looking for an answer to a question, it is usually a number. Visualization can be useful if you don’t know why you are looking at the data in the first place, and even then, there is a choice between a chart that is made
Critical dijksterhuis · 2026-03 · on “Our Commitment to Windows Quality”
when i hear bollocks like "agentic UX" i think of things like this [this video] i feel like someone high up in microsoft probably has this pinned in a epic or something somewhere