I Went To DEFCON!

[@HackyMcQuacky]

and here i thought it was Deafcon for the hearing impaired.

[@FordDraper]

He is getting up there in age

[@TheSaintOMS]

Nah that's next week, right before Mondegreencon

[@MrSnivvel]

It could also meant it was convention for Deftone or Def Leopard fans, but I guess a gather of nerds will have to do...

[@shanti1765]

😂😂😂

[@emeraldbonsai]

Nah it actually makes you deaf after words via sick raves

[@clarkhinchcliff7824]

The jump from dancing man cypher to roman numerals is insane. How ya'll solved this is big brain-mode.

[@E_Proxy]

Well... Bunch of big brains. I needed solutions for Machinarium. Imagine being that dumb

[@KewalTailor]

FRFR

[@ashleigh.]

I dunno, I didn't find it that hard of a leap?

[@GigsTaggart]

@@ashleigh. Definitely easier once you know the solution. When anything could be a clue, it's a lot harder. I was the one that noticed a lot of the words had roman numeral letters, then girn figured out that the words had all the numbers from 1-13, then we quickly solved it after that (prime had done the dancing man cipher part hours before). But before that point, literally anything could be the solution, like the placement of the words on the page, the dots in the font, the buttons on the shirt. Until you've tried a goldbug type contest, it's hard to explain how unconstrained the problems are, which will send you down 3 hour long rabbit holes. Because you don't know if maybe you are just not counting the buttons on the shirt right, or rotating the result right, or whatever.

[@MiserableLemon]

I immediately thought they were semaphores. But no way was I figuring out anything more 😂😅

[@youdontgettoknowmyrealname7531]

Clicked because Luke Lafreniere was in the thumbnail.

[@alomac8976]

you must be fast...

[@jvzqz13]

Would love a collab with Prime and LTT

[@ashleigh.]

I lowkey got a crush on Luke lol

[@bedro_0]

i clicked because he was third from the left

[@jbrone1241]

Same ltt wan show brought it up. I was hoping for the chess puzzle.

[@Trippze]

Prime really likes to downplay his intelligence. I wouldn't be able to solve any of these

[@mr.k8660]

Me too bruh ,I'm having a hard time understanding the problems after the 1st one

Maybe that’s true. However, be aware that: 1) they were focused for many hours in those problems. 2) they had experienced solving similar challenges (Prime has explained the importance of Leet code, and Thor has mentioned similar challenges in the hacker conferences). 3) Prime was a Sr. Eng in Netflix, certainly he has a lot of experience and has grown solving skills during years. Yes, they are smart. But that doesn’t mean you’ll never be able to do something similar.

[@bobbob1278]

You wouldn't be able to solve because you don't have the same amount of experience he has. You'll be able to once you do

[@KewalTailor]

SAME, lol

[@camperologist1528]

big deal, he got carried by pychoholics.

[@Requiem100500]

Prime using 0.01% of his power:

[@muhammadumar2952]

Sounds like nightmare level leetcode questions 😅

[@Alex_Cevi]

Flip - solid editing.

[@dumtiedum5563]

Really impressive editing

[@lastchance1036]

Phenomenal editing.

[@chrisalbers9184]

Job great ! good skills editing with

[@Lavos251]

Thank you for going over these. I checked it out but I was so confused but still wanted to know the solution and how to get there.

[@Lavos251]

And I'm still confused :'(

[@HarimaKentaro]

@@Lavos251 I am lost with the first one still, didn't get quiet why what was done to get the answer.

[@TomasVaisar]

In the future when Prime gets bored by all the computer stuff, he could be reading audiobook for living! 😁

[@ThePrimeagen]

Goals

[@danielhazel7205]

"cold ice creams and hot kisses"

[@MRKRRNZ]

@@ThePrimeagenI’m anxiously awaiting for your audiobook of Knuth’s The Art of Computer Programming and Code Complete 2

[@Callumkloos]

"I just start to suspect everything, every possible clue" - ADHD bros unite!

[@kenkenpaul7308]

That's schizophrenia

[@BlameLatency]

im glad you enjoyed the cyphers - there are tons of events called puzzle hunts that have exactly this style of cryptic puzzle. it’d be awesome to see you work through some old problems, or enter some of the bigger annual hunts like MIT Mystery Hunt or Galactic Puzzle Hunt!

[@sharthakghosh970]

Any list? Or somewhere where I can track live events?

[@azratosh]

Can't believe Theo is taller than Prime. He kinda has 5'2 energy

[@TheSkepticSkwerl]

I thought you won a hacking competition. Instead you won a problem solving competition. Well no wonder, you guys are programmers. Masters of problem solving. Great job!

[@jamesdenmark1396]

You find many people who run youtube channels that can talk for hours about something, but when you put them to code something, they loss it...this guy can definitly do both...

[@ryshellso526]

Chatgpt isn't hard to give problems to... ;)

[@jankucera8505]

you're a genius this is completely insane

[@christiansonnenberg6306]

I love educational videos. Sometimes I know the stuff people are talking about, sometimes I don't. Most of the times I'm watching those I feel enlightend, I feel that I've learned something (Rossmann, it worked!) I've never watched a video from this youtuber so I didn't know what to expect. Never have I ever in my whole life felt so dumb. This dude made a great video, explains everything that was going on, never condescending but it's so far over my head...

[@Karna_21]

what a great video dude. I wanted to do such cool stuff but I am not ready for it but soon will. Thanks for such a video

[@ThePrimeagen]

Thank you bud

[@BradleyCulbertson]

I want more of these, please do all of them as a series.

[@MrCinclant]

Guess who's back? Node's back!

[@R3cursion_]

That switch to light 0:53 ... almost lost my vision. for the love of all that is holy... PLEASE install dark reader!!

[@ZevIsert]

The point of the flashbang noise is that it got him too, he does have a dark reader IIRC

[@bladekiller2766]

How can Prime not consider himself a genius after coding quickly the paper folding puzzle? That is simply insane. Even Theo in his Defcon video was impressed by Prime code.

[@TheSantifive]

Gotta love the magic of the internet. I, a complete brickhead with zero coding knowledge who's not even from the US, have just learned about a hacking convention that sounds like a lot of fun. Also I've enjoyed -both entertainment and learning wise- a lot of these and Thor's videos, with truly no knowledge about coding whatsoever. Goes to show you can really get something out of anything.

[@Rio-Play]

Aye! Would you look at that - it looks like I made it to the photo reel! It was awesome watching you tackle those puzzles. Your level of coding expertise and problem-solving skills are truly impressive. I particularly enjoyed watching you solve the visual puzzle for the book folds - it blew my mind! Initially, I thought a more physical approach would be taken, such as trying to replicate the folds with a real book or using a PDF/images and overlapping the document's corners. However, your creative use of coding knowledge to piece things together was incredible. Recreating the cipher or algorithm using the text-based table was also impressive to watch. With so much text on screen, it can be easy to get lost - I know I would have been lost for sure. The dancing man puzzle was a standout - I loved seeing how you connected the Roman numerals and deciphered the lettering by illustrating the dancing men in GIMP. It was wild! I can only imagine how mind-numbing it must have been to try and move the bottles around to make sense of the puzzle at that hour. Your commitment to getting the crash and compile to work with no internet, relying on your phone's hotspot or tethering, is truly impressive. The dedication you showed in overcoming those obstacles is inspiring. And congratulations are in order - winning first place in the Gold Bug Challenge for your first Defcon ever! That's an incredible achievement! Many kudos to you! 🥇🪲🏆 🤜🤛 🥂 I hope to run into you in the comments/chat of future videos/streams and maybe even at the next Defcon! Have a good one, ThePrimeagen! P.S. I hope that latte got you through the ceremonies! ☕

[@joeyunlockstheworld]

the charades one seemed so fun, counting the buttons and little circle dots like fuck it, everything is a clue!🤣

[@ThePrimeagen]

I honestly felt like Alex Jones. Everything was a conspiracy theory, everything possibly was a clue to the universe

[@joeyunlockstheworld]

@ThePrimeagen hey man I still feel like the pin number I used for lunch in middle school could still come into play at some point in my life 😂 a conspiracy based ctf would be pretty sick tho 🤔🤔

[@Devar]

This stuff reminds me of some of the puzzle geocaches I've solved over the years. Yes. Everything starts becoming a fucking clue after you've gone down three red herring rabbit holes. But so fun. This stuff is on another whole level though, totally awesome. Wish you'd share more puzzles!

[@sebastianramirez5781]

I love how you meant to say piratesoftware but said primeagen

[@Akrob55555]

Pause the video when he says it and look again.

[@knevari3952]

Dude that's mindblowing. I'm freaking impressed

[@PiratePete1]

another interesting thing, ROYGBIV is the order of colours in the rainbow, and also the name of a They Might Be Giants song :)

[@jonathan-._.-]

very cool video - i would be interested in watchibg the streamed process of solving them if you want to go in that direction next year

[@TheCandace018]

Thank you for sharing your experience. I definitely want to go next year

[@nuha_lobby]

Sherlock Holmes vibe 🕵️

[@Jango1989]

It was so good! I can't wait to get back! Also... You lot absolutely killed it!

[@BSwitchGTG]

This is super big-brain, and I feel super smooth. Damn. Damn.

[@Threnode]

16:20 You won't fool us: "The name is KABOOSE"

[@0xphk]

Really liked the CR/LF portion of the video ;) I could almost hear the typewriter sounds in my head

[@evanjsx]

Clicked because I thought I saw Thor in the thumbnail ... 0:10 nah. Can't be him. This guy has a natural mustache.

[@Jason-yr6fy]

11:46 got me :D great job, Flip!

[@Warhammerdude299]

It must have been a blast hanging out with Thor and Mr. Lafrenierierierier.

[@Kane0123]

0:12 Based take

[@justaveragematt]

Flip, I appreciate you putting The Deep in there. I saw that.

[@torgodly]

Watching this makes me fell dump man how genius would you have to be to solve and code these stuff

[@complexity5545]

Deciphering or cracking the code is the original WW2 Holy Grail of reading your enemy's messages.

[@mewdeen]

Granny started sounding like Matthew McConaughey 🤣

[@krux702]

You did well on the qualification round for Crash and Compile, so that in itself is an accomplishment. Glad you had fun playing even if you were handicapped by your laptop not wanting to connect to the network.

[@3Rton]

at 40s everyone in the chat "lol my team would have gotten 14 right" bro I dont know if id solved any of these jeesus..

[@bullxtraders1366]

I enjoy 😂 watch this guy's content...funny guy this one. ThePrimeagen keep up the good work bro.

[@chronosoul1837]

I remember video explaining the Bored Ape Yacht Club doing a similar, hidden puzzle with the bookshelf.

[@afcz4300]

The crash and compile sounds amazing

[@madeOfClay99]

There is no way I'm going to DEFCON, I mean, I feel like I wouldn't be able to solve ANY of the puzzles alone, like 0 score for me. The Primeagen is really a smart guy, I am not

[@sbhsilent7864]

I feel dumb. Where are my crayons...

[@heqitao]

Shit I knew Luke Lafreniere was a very intelligent computer guy, but I didn't know he was...well... this?!!? Way to go man.

[@kernelpickle]

Psycoholics you say? Sounds to me like someone on that team is a big fan of White Zombie-and I thoroughly approve.

[@boredsherbet]

every time i watch a primeagen video, i feel stupider. gddmn man, on my 3rd year of college and im still this much of an idiot huh...

[@dsrogersjr]

Masters degree and 14 years of experience. This is still impressive

[@nodirbekvositov]

you gotta admit, he is pretty smart

[@darkshoxx]

Oh, so similar to what they did at SawCon

[@malTeeYoung]

What’s SawC…?

[@darkshoxx]

@@malTeeYoung I'm so sorry... SAWCON DEEZ NUTZ

[@musaho3416]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂​@@darkshoxx

[@slendi9623]

0:01 TheSoyagen?

[@gyimihendrix]

We need a soyjack drawing asap

[@ThePrimeagen]

Do it now

[@slendi9623]

@@ThePrimeagen on it

[@RealRogerFK]

​@@ThePrimeagen "MY WIFE'S BOYFRIEND HECKING BOUGHT ME SOME TICKETS TO DEFCON!"

[@ryshellso526]

​@RealRogerFK "gotta tell plebbit about this for sweet sweet karma... maybe I won't be cucked tonight".😂😂😂

[@pauleboselume3369]

Quality of the video and editing is 🔥

[@thornysnotsoepic]

Bro Luke from LTT is on the same team as Pirate Software?! Congratulations guys!

[@peterszarvas94]

this hackerman even changed the font :O

[@bjdooi]

of course the dyslexic guy messes up the riddles that involves looking at character symbols

[@Rcls01]

I suck at puzzles. It's just insane to me some people solve these.

[@TusharSharma-gc4vs]

yeah.....I don't think leetcode's helping me understand this video

[@pthomasgarcia]

Looks all kinds of fun. How can one practice to learn about and solve problems like that?

[@prisencotech]

Math and logic puzzle books are a good place to start. "The Moscow Puzzles" is a popular one that can be picked up used for a few dollars.

[@mSykeCodes]

looks like quite a fun time lol I might have been able to get one of those at most

[@Hossimo]

I have wanted to go for years, but now I know for sure I'm NOT smart enough.

[@RedHair651]

Primeagen doing original content? I never thought I'd see the day

[@FastRomanianGypsies]

Have you read "I learned the language of computer programming in my 50s - here’s what I discovered" in The Guardian?

[@joda3615]

The Psychoholics? More like ThePrimeasonics amirite

[@0stall]

the most joyful writeup ever

[@vamshikrishna9270]

sounds fun, next year

[@anispinner]

Sherlock season 4 right here right now.

[@GerlikasIgnotas]

This is awesome !

[@dromedda6810]

the visual of Prime absolutely losing it and going for alex jones mode is a treat for the mind, and made me swallow and spit out my drink within a nano ((neo)vi/m > nano) second

[@nicky_rads]

some very interesting problems, very cool !

[@SIGSEGV200]

we got prime in defcon before GTA VI

[@zeal514]

That looks like so much fun

[@CarelessOutcast]

I loved this !

[@MICHAELMURITHI-y7y]

Feeling like I'm watching Vasetarium video

[@nicolecutfield9170]

And here I thought the name was Caboose.

[@JL-1735]

Wow man impressive !

[@UndeadKnightsStudio]

I saw a mustache team on the thumbnail (except Thorn unfortunately 😢) and i come 😂😂

[@alexisavls2601]

yup

[@Laurens235]

yup

[@SirCamWA]

@@Laurens235 Yup

[@joda3615]

yup

[@SamMeechWard]

yup

[@nafis_rk]

yup

[@Striker9]

I thought I was semi-good at solving puzzles... nope I'd be screwed if I had to solve defcon puzzles lol

[@nobody-bt7mu]

Absolutely Madmen

[@LastChain]

Awesome!!

[@User-actSpacing]

You can’t justify that mustache no matter what you say

[@night9caster]

I heard your name was otherwise dude. But much love all the same

[@Shadow-nx4yl]

dr. respect

[@TorMier1308]

Congratulations. Nerds

[@thunderstein5041]

flip did his thang

[@Hooorse]

These are crazy.

[@sahilsharma2867]

Hey prime. Love your vids but I became a subscriber when I saw your dev workflow video 2021 edition. When will the 2024 edition come out. Pleazzzz

[@dalerrahimov2387]

It's not even fair to have that kind of a team 😁

[@danijelstuden]

Kaboose has spoken

[@User_yhvz]

How am I like 10 years or more younger than you and could read that cursive almost perfectly fine 😂

[@hikemalliday6007]

thats why hes the goat

[@youcefmantas4944]

Great content

[@karanpun164]

You searched for common thing in every problem. You know what is common between you guys? Mustache !!

[@stupidgameprizes]

I like the folded page one. Reminds me of the days when I would sharpie the side of big textbooks for fun.

[@lonelym4ge]

Yeah, I prefer reversing a linked list