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Comment by lordelph | Hacker News Reader

This 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

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They need a "google translate" operator, and then a text to emoticon operator with a facepalm icon.

on the Mandarin step I went to the 'languages' tab looking for something similar to a google translate operator, so hear hear.

My Python solution:

print("".join(chr(int(x,2)) for x in "11100111 10111011 10011101 11100100 10111000 10001101 11100100 10111100 10011010 11100110 10010100 10111110 11100101 10111100 10000011 11100100 10111101 10100000".split()))

I don't deny that other tools might make this faster.

Also, nice puzzle! :-)

Yeah, I always used to use Python for this kind of thing - it offered easy ways of doing most interesting operations, made experimenting and chaining operations really easy, and it was easy to write my own helper functions if necessary.

I'll have to admit... that was not what I expected.

Never going to let you down...

mother f....

I am so sorry.

For all the people who decoded it, only to get another "encoded" message.

Well played. :)

This is the most interesting way I been... tricked.

Cyber security is one continuously evolving puzzel, hence this very broad tool.

Oh come on..

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