<story><title>Instagram Engineering Challenge: The Unshredder</title><url>http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/12651721845/instagram-engineering-challenge-the-unshredder</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>snotrockets</author><text>There&apos;s a famous anecdote about human unshredding: when the Iranian revolutionary took over the US embassy in 1979, they captured the shredded remains of secret documents. They took those shredding to the carpet weavers Iran is so famous of, who manually rewoven the shreds into the original documents (See &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Documents_seized_from_the_U.S._Embassy_in_Tehran/Shredded_Documents&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Documents_seized_from_the_U.S....&lt;/a&gt;)</text></comment>
<story><title>Instagram Engineering Challenge: The Unshredder</title><url>http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/12651721845/instagram-engineering-challenge-the-unshredder</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>icki</author><text>Interestingly enough, DARPA is running a similar challenge (their prize is a lot better): &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.darpa.mil/shredder_splash.aspx#Splash&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.darpa.mil/shredder_splash.aspx#Splash&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>