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The Fall of Minecraft's 2b2t

FitMC · commentary · Watch on YouTube

Gaming culture & analysisSpeedrunning, glitches & game hacking

What it is

FitMC tells how the Nocom exploit let griefers track players across Minecraft's oldest anarchy server, 2b2t, and the fallout that followed.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Cited as the original, accurate account of the Nocom exploit, a story of years of player tracking and impressive technical work.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2021, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “That article has a lot of inaccuracies, typos, and general mistakes due to it being a summary of a YouTube video.”

    Original video behind an inaccurate article summarizing 2b2t's fall

    leijurv, 2021-07 · Recommendation · in “Minecraft’s 'Worst' Server Was Exploited So Hard, Griefers Could See the Future”

  2. “it details a story of gaslighting, 3 years of player data, and some really really impressive technical work”

    Story of the Nocom exploit tracking every player, with gaslighting and three years of data

    xcdzvyn, 2023-11 · Recommendation · in “Minecraft rewritten from scratch in Kotlin, hypixel works”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: 2b2t, nocom, minecraft, exploit, gaming history

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