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Okay, so I went the cheesy way and initialized my memory with a bunch of useful constants. Which works fine in both implementations, but can I tell the website to load my memory string somehow or do I need to do some real thinking?

Thanks~

Even as a non-native speakers I quickly got the clues laz0r mentioned. Then I spent about twenty minutes until I realized that filling the gaps from back to front works better.
Now I feel stupid and lacking imagination. Great puzzle indeed!

Search & replace 9 to \n in Notepad++ Look for a line with over 100 characters Adapt and search on. Not very hack-y but my Python script sorta failed me. I have no idea how so few lines can fail so badly. For the record: (stripped out all whitespaces from pi file after first failure) seq = [] ts...

Neat Wolfram Alpha trick there. I just ended up grabbing a list and abusing Excel' sum functions.

I used burp as a proxy and added a rule to delete all the s from HTTP-responses.
Then it was just fire and forget. Nice challenge!

Boring part first: I wrote a bash one-liner while [ /bin/true ] ; do mv doll doll.gz; gunzip doll; done and waited for errors to occur. But I really love how the first posts are like "took me over five minutes" and nowadays it's mere seconds (I'd guess ten?) until one hits the bottom. Also...

I screwed it up a few times for not reading properly and forgetting to convert to hex

Then made it in my head, one cipher at a time. XOR-ing is not that hard.

A challenger appears: C# namespace Xe { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { StringBuilder input = new StringBuilder("93752xxx746x27x1754xx90x93xxxxx238x44x75xx08750912738x8461x8759383xx328x4x4935903x6x5550360535004x0xx945958961296x267x8842xxx5x6xx61x4x48482x80xxx83316843x7x4x83x95...

Using a website to assist me I scanned the text for a word with the length matching "solution".
That were enough known letters to find the rest.

And then guessing with the four remaining ones.

same here. Audacity and count.

Still got a W38 at home, so it was pretty straightforward.

i tried java but it took years until it ran out of heap, so...

wolfram alpha and done.. piece of cake