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You piqued my curiosity, and I was pleasantly surprised!

I won't post the email address, because I suspect it's encoded like that to prevent spam. But here's two hints:

- the visual representation simply requires you to step back from your monitor and squint

- the "key" is an email address

Hope the hints help! Have fun! There's two classic pieces of Internet technology involved.

Heh. Thanks for playing. I forgot the brainfuck puzzle.

I do wonder how many people know about rot-13 these days. I remember having to use it to get the punchlines for dirty jokes on Usenet :)

Huh. Nice one, 'keyle. My favourite "encryption" scheme :D.

HN to me is about celebrating hackery with things like this :-)

The Art appears to just be ascii of their uname, but I’m not 100%.

I tried a ROT-24589 algorithm on it, I think I'm really close.

Good thinking. ROT-24596 should get you there!

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I wish you edited that with '42'.

Damnit! You gave away the answer!