TASBot piped 1.2M inputs a second through an SNES to 'run' Portal
At AGDQ 2017 the tool-assisted speedrun robot used controller-port inputs as a data bus — buffer overflows became a loader executing streamed opcodes.
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At AGDQ 2017 the tool-assisted speedrun robot used controller-port inputs as a data bus — buffer overflows became a loader executing streamed opcodes.
事例を読むLukas Vogel turned a relational database into a game engine: tables hold the world state, and 1,300 lines of SQL render 35 Doom frames a second.
事例を読むSparkFun's founder brute-forced a $120 safe via three shortcuts — error tolerance, try ordering, a telltale notch — from four months of tries to 73 minutes.
事例を読むHousing hearings drew only objectors, so Sonja Trauss organized renters to show up and speak — the upzoning that stalled in 2016 passed 11-0 a year later.
事例を読むKTH researchers created a fake engineer, 'Luc Esape', so their bug-fixing bot Repairnator could submit patches blind — and human moderators accepted five.
事例を読むBroke in London in 1964, Reg Spiers used his airport cargo job knowledge — air freight cash on delivery, max crate size — to ship himself home to Adelaide.
事例を読むA locked screen guards the login prompt, not the network stack — a $5 board posing as the network gateway walks off with a computer's cookies.
事例を読むPeru's laws turned water bills into watershed funding: 40 of 50 utilities now collect MRSE money to revive amunas that store wet-season water underground.
事例を読むPaper Mario runners chained an effects-matrix overflow with an Ocarina of Time ACE write and N64 RAM persistence to warp to the credits.
事例を読むNew York traded tax breaks for rent limits to revive Lower Manhattan — then one letter from Giuliani read the limits down to apartments under $2,000 a month.
事例を読むNatera texts patients a $349 ‘prompt-pay cash price’ when insurance looks worse — in US healthcare the negotiated rate is often the expensive option.
事例を読むAmEx reissues stolen cards with predictable numbers; Kamkar built a $10 device, MagSpoof, that cycles to the next card the moment one is declined.
事例を読むLyft randomized fares and wait times across 3.7M riders to measure time's value: $19 an hour, 50% higher at rush hour — above the government's $14.
事例を読むThe wine town capped residents at 74 gallons a day, subsidized minute-by-minute meter apps, banned irrigation — and trucked in recycled water so yards survived.
事例を読むHavensteder and Kraaijvanger's Hub is a removable housing kit — kitchen, shower, toilet, heat — that turns vacant offices into homes and back again.
事例を読むCanal-top solar in Gujarat turns 80,000 km of waterways into power plants: the shade cuts evaporation and algae, and the water cools the panels.
事例を読むA GCHQ engineer gutted two store-bought briefcases into Brahms, Britain's first portable encrypted phone, keyed by daily paper tapes and used by Thatcher.
事例を読むThe 'free' tour model prices at zero to remove trust friction, bills guides a few euros per guest who shows up, and lets tips set the real price.
事例を読むCSIR-IGIB's CRISPR strip test matched PCR accuracy — 96% sensitivity, 98% specificity — in under an hour, readable like a pregnancy test.
事例を読むA $60 vanity monocle and leaked memos set off in-game riots; CCP flew the player-elected council to Iceland, and its inspection calmed the mob.
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