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Re:Textify: Convert images to HTML text on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @01:00PM (#2580635)
http://textify.it/js/hakim.textify.min.js: "Recreates bitmap images using HTML text. Images are drawn onto a canvas element so that the pixels can be read. Letters, with colors matching the image pixels, are then placed at random locations on the screen."

Looks like it also uses dat.gui for drawing.

Re:FBI: If We Told You . . . (Part II) on Thursday May 12, 2011 @08:51PM (#2543016)
In other words: The only way we can obtain this information is to not tell what what information we're obtaining.
Not all super villains have tech goons that read Hacker News
Re:Ask HN: How has the Amazon AWS outage affected you? on Thursday April 21, 2011 @05:03PM (#2472376)
I manage four EC2s all with EBS and located on the east coast; luckily haven't had any issues.