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Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2018) by felipetavares on Thursday November 01, 2018 @05:40PM (#18358735)
I gave it a quick try.

The == at the end looked like base64 so:

Decoding "QzBERTgyNDYKCjYzNkY2NDY1M0EzMzM1MzYzNDJDMjA3Mzc1NjI2RDY5NzQy" gives us:

"C0DE8246

636F64653A333536342C207375626D69742"

Bunch of numbers with some letters up to F? Should be hex:

"code:3564, submit"

The final piece can be decoded using the same process to "submit-code".

Middle piece can be decoded to hex: "0746F3A2068747470733A2F2F7873746563682E65752F" but I didn't get past this because this hex gives me a binary that I could not make sense of.

Better luck to the next :P

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2018) by taptap1 on Thursday November 01, 2018 @05:49PM (#18358802)
That's counterproductive, Felipe, I'd appreciate if you deleted your comment.

Let's see you do the rest though.

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2018) by jamespollack on Friday November 02, 2018 @04:30PM (#18366452)
i find the fact that you created a HN account just to troll us with your little puzzle to be 'counterproductive'. you're not the NSA, you're a PHP dev house. respect people's time and maybe you'll get the applicants you're looking for
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2018) by xtracto on Thursday November 01, 2018 @05:56PM (#18358845)
It is easier than that... the interesting thing comes after solving this first "puzzle"
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2018) by taptap1 on Thursday November 01, 2018 @05:59PM (#18358865)
Yeah, it's just a warmup really :)