u/A858DE45F56D9BC9 was a mysterious Reddit user who posted for a number of years to the subreddit of the same name. These posts took the form of (apparently) encrypted, hexadecimal sequences; some of these were occasionally decoded. This repository contains the source code to a system that I wrote to automatically capture, archive and analyze these posts.
The system had a website previously at https://a858.soulsphere.org/ - this has now been shut down. The database containing the collected posts can be found on the Internet archive.
Some old news coverage of the mystery:
- A code dump may reveal Stonehenge (Daily Dot)
- Read This: Unraveling the mysteries of Reddit’s notorious r/A858 (AV Club)
- Inside r/A858, a true Reddit mystery (Fox News)
Script for automatically logging and analyzing all posts to Reddit's r/A858DE45F56D9BC9 Subreddit.
This source code is released under the GNU Affero GPL; if you run your own instance of the auto-analysis server you must publish any modifications you have made to the source code. See the FSF's GPL FAQ for more information: