Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderThis looks like a handy tool, certainly for puzzles and exploring encodings. It makes decoding puzzles like this very quick! 11100111 10111011 10011101 11100100 10111000 10001101 11100100 10111100 10011010 11100110 10010100 10111110 11100101 10111100 10000011 11100100 10111101 10100000
It's funny looking at some of the contributors to this. Some of the accounts seem to be vague, single-duty accounts made for the express purpose of contributing code to CyberChef and nothing else. I admire their OPSEC (From: https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef/graphs/contributors) https://github.com/n1474335 https://github.com/j433866 https://github.com/d98762625 https://github.com/s2224834 https://github.com/GCHQ77703
I'm a big fan of CyberChef. One of its most useful features is "magic" and turning on "intensive mode". This will automatically detect the encoding used and can often detect 2-3 levels of encoding.
An amazing tool, allows all kinds of manipulation to be done on data, really helpful in CTF games.
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 4
- Total points
- 1760
- Total comments
- 311
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-11-28 | CyberChef – A Cyber Swiss Army KnifeFirst breakout · Best thread | robin_reala | 785 | 139 |
| 2019-03-25 | CyberChef – The Cyber Swiss Army Knife | weinzierl | 2 | 0 |
| 2019-07-27 | CyberChef - The Cyber Swiss Army Knife | qbranch | 3 | 1 |
| 2019-08-22 | CyberChef – Cyber Swiss Army Knife | onion2k | 394 | 59 |
| 2021-04-18 | The Cyber Swiss Army Knife – encryption, encoding, compression and moreHall induction | tzury | 3 | 0 |
| 2022-01-02 | CyberChef | thunderbong | 4 | 0 |
| 2022-01-18 | CyberChef – The Cyber Swiss Army Knife | simonpure | 392 | 54 |
| 2023-08-26 | Decoding QR code text output | hagelslag | 2 | 1 |
| 2023-09-26 | CyberChef | gorenb | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-02-01 | CyberChef from GCHQ: Cyber Swiss Army KnifeLatest 20+ point return | _xerces_ | 174 | 57 |