Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt(tris.sherliker.net)
1389 points by speerer 1 day ago | 219 comments
tl;dr: A Uniqlo t-shirt from Akamai's "Peace for All" campaign has a base64-encoded bash script printed on the back, complete with a shebang line. After OCR'ing and decoding the string, the author found it's an Easter egg: a shell script that animates a sine-wave loop of "♥PEACE♥FOR♥ALL♥" across the terminal in a cyan-to-orange gradient. Akamai's press release frames the design as a tribute to Linux and the early internet.
HN Discussion:
  • Appreciation for the shirt and Easter egg, sharing related obfuscated code art examples
  • ~Technical corrections or additions about the shirt's typography and design details
  • ~Suggestions to improve the script, such as adding a sleep for readability
  • Critique of the author's OCR approach, suggesting manual typing or better vision models would be easier
  • Personal anecdotes about owning or encountering the shirt in real life