Hacker News: 1337p337

FSE meets the FBI

1337p337 — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 01:59:27 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.freespeechextremist.com/blog/fse-vs-fbi.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44220860

Points: 415

# Comments: 146

New comment by 1337p337 in "John Walker, founder of Autodesk, has died"

1337p337 — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 04:18:49 +0000

I loved that language. I actually forked it, used it for a lot of stuff, bloated it (started by just trying to port to x86-64, ended up with a mini-FORTH with regexes, FFI to C, etc.). I still use it every day, though mostly for doing math in hex.

New comment by 1337p337 in "Tool that lists all Fediverse instances including Mastodon, Pleroma, Rebased"

1337p337 — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 07:09:24 +0000

Appears to work: http://demo.fedilist.com/instance?sort=mau

New comment by 1337p337 in "Tool that lists all Fediverse instances including Mastodon, Pleroma, Rebased"

1337p337 — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 06:34:41 +0000

Looks like you are correct, yeah, and the raw logs show 7,410 of the 10,729 live instances have it. Lemme hack it in real quick; I can't put it onto the big pages and not sure how well adding another column to that table will work, but give me like five minutes.

New comment by 1337p337 in "Tool that lists all Fediverse instances including Mastodon, Pleroma, Rebased"

1337p337 — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 06:05:15 +0000

Believe it or not, the resource use is mostly bandwidth for that page. Something like 2MB of HTML; the actual data is mostly cached.

New comment by 1337p337 in "Tool that lists all Fediverse instances including Mastodon, Pleroma, Rebased"

1337p337 — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 06:00:02 +0000

That'd be cool, but it just uses publicly available APIs for this. Most of the data like that isn't reported through the public APIs across various types of software. Bad data is tossed out (e.g., the you-think-your-fake-numbers-are-impressive.well-this-instance-contains-all-living-humans.lubar.me lists over 7 billion accounts) but data that is (as far as I know) accurate is presented as-is.

New comment by 1337p337 in "Tool that lists all Fediverse instances including Mastodon, Pleroma, Rebased"

1337p337 — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 05:49:55 +0000

Ha, indeed. It seems to be up for me, but that's why I put it on the demo subdomain and left off HTTPS: it's a demo, not quite ready for production.

(It's also getting flooded with vulnerability scanners at the moment, but that's not affecting the load, just the pipe.)

New comment by 1337p337 in "Tool that lists all Fediverse instances including Mastodon, Pleroma, Rebased"

1337p337 — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 05:41:41 +0000

This applies if you're thinking of Twitter as a business or as a tool for mass-broadcast. If you think of something with a similar format but that fits a different space, that's the use for the Fediverse: it's more like USENET or BBSs or even 2008 Twitter than it is like 2022 Twitter.

New comment by 1337p337 in "Ask HN: Solo devs, how do you plan your development?"

1337p337 — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 17:48:25 +0000

The main advantage of tools like this are that you can use them to communicate. When I don't have the need to do that, I don't use them. I try to use tools that will remember this sort of thing on their own.

I keep notes on ideas in a personal wiki (AwkiAwki), and I open up the recent changes page to remember what I was taking notes about. For anything past the planning or brainstorming stages, I just use `ls -t|sed 10q` on my directory full of editor session dumps. I always keep a scratch/memo buffer open in acme so there will be some brief notes, an outline of the behavior I planned to implement, or (more often) I can gather what was going on from which files were open and where the cursor is in those files. For non-code projects, there will at least be some text, so there will be a session dump.

New comment by 1337p337 in "Thoughts on Forth Programming"

1337p337 — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 06:07:33 +0000

Forth isn't super practical in such an environment; gForth in particular is a bit "large". (Not that this is bad, but it's of the second school the article mentions.) If you wanted, you could cobble together a Forth implementation that played nicely with pipes. I did this, it works fine, but it's not the type of environment that matches Forth very well.

Forth's design is to give you the machine and let you compute with it rather than to act as part of a pipeline.

You Will Not Understand This

1337p337 — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 02:18:49 +0000

Article URL: http://stanleylieber.com/2017/11/07/0/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15649499

Points: 382

# Comments: 256

New comment by 1337p337 in "LambdaNative – Cross-platform mobile apps in Scheme"

1337p337 — Sun, 25 Jun 2017 07:12:34 +0000

Yep, that's why I left it off the list.

I've actually written some LambdaNative. Unfortunately, we ended up going with Cordova, but you can guess which one was more fun to write.

New comment by 1337p337 in "LambdaNative – Cross-platform mobile apps in Scheme"

1337p337 — Sat, 24 Jun 2017 01:15:34 +0000

Stock Scheme does not have much in the way of interfaces to the outside world (long story) but there are several Scheme variants where people are doing larger projects. Racket is sort of a Scheme variant, and it seems to be the most popular, but Chicken and Guile are also pretty popular (as far as Scheme variants go) for real-world use cases.

New comment by 1337p337 in "Reducing the size of iOS app binaries"

1337p337 — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 09:27:51 +0000

Not a false dichotomy at all. Ignoring that the size of the team is exactly two (and there's only so much you can keep in your head), when you have a metric, you optimize for it. It's not even a conscious process.

New comment by 1337p337 in "The Risk of Discovery"

1337p337 — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 17:44:38 +0000

Well, PG presents them as different bets, one of which paid off. They were the same essential bet from Newton's perspective. For example, books on physics at the time referred to religion heavily, sometimes as a cornerstone of an argument. Even Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica says "Collocavit igitur Deus Planetas in diversas distantiis à Sole, ut quilibet pro gradu densitatis calore Solis majore vel minore fruatur."

New comment by 1337p337 in "The Risk of Discovery"

1337p337 — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 17:03:41 +0000

There wasn't quite the sharp division of disciplines, either. Thinking about it that way comes from the public school system (which the author ought to know, because if I'm not mistaken, he mentioned that in a previous essay). Mathematics (which didn't warrant a mention as a bet that paid off in a blurb about the guy that invented calculus), metaphysics, and the natural sciences were all areas of study, but they weren't different bets: they were interrelated components of our understanding of the universe.

New comment by 1337p337 in "Disabling npm's progress bar yields a 2x npm install speed improvement"

1337p337 — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 09:02:28 +0000

At the risk of getting downvoted myself, I wonder why all of your comments are getting downvoted. Is it such a terrible opinion that it doesn't even belong on HN? A lot of people turn off syntax highlighting. It can be legitimately distracting, and it messes up tooling.

New comment by 1337p337 in "Whatever you set the URL to, that HTTP code will be returned"

1337p337 — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 00:44:06 +0000

Unfortunately it just returns the code, not a compliant response (e.g., 405 should return an Allow: header).

New comment by 1337p337 in "Disabling npm's progress bar yields a 2x npm install speed"

1337p337 — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 23:55:42 +0000

Unfortunate that it's just a link to an image on Twitter, but not entirely surprising. Kicking off a thread to manage stdio is the usual solution, since even polling requires a syscall, which requires memory to change hands, which bumps latency some.

New comment by 1337p337 in "Ask HN: How did Microsoft hold back the Internet for 6-7 years?"

1337p337 — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 03:49:11 +0000

It was a good thing. Not just for the standardization bodies, for everyone. The "Fierce Idiocy of 'New!'"[1] died down for a little while and briefly it was possible to rely on a stable development environment. Features are great if they're the correct ones and they're done well, but stability and reliability are even nicer.

1. http://www.constitutionaldaily.com/index.php?id=737%3Athe-fi...