Hacker News: parksb

Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux

parksb — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:02:36 +0000

Article URL: https://parksb.github.io/en/article/41.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48907063

Points: 222

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How railway timetables became Unix time

parksb — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 14:18:51 +0000

Article URL: https://parksb.github.io/en/article/39.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48794469

Points: 6

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Tradeoffs in Complexity, Abstraction, and Generality

parksb — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 01:54:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lesswrong.com/s/EL2YvcrPNHrGgzPnZ/p/HNJwteaxpRYfLaQt7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48769779

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Why has the web become so complex?

parksb — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:07:13 +0000

Article URL: https://parksb.github.io/en/article/43.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48707378

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Zoo Visitors' Initial Assessment of an Animaloid Robot as a Zoo Exhibit [pdf]

parksb — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:45:04 +0000

Article URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3544549.3585762

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48685504

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

But yak shaving is fun (2019)

parksb — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:26:26 +0000

Article URL: https://parksb.github.io/en/article/32.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555838

Points: 307

# Comments: 95

Science Home

parksb — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:08:31 +0000

Article URL: https://sah.borca.ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815626

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Simpesys – A headless document build tool for digital gardens

parksb — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:09:50 +0000

I built a file-based headless document build tool called Simpesys. I've been running my own digital garden for a long time. I'm into topics like digital gardens, knowledge bases, second brains, Zettelkasten, so I've tried many different tools over the years, but eventually decided that Markdown files on the local filesystem are the most sustainable way to do it.

These days there are plenty of file-based digital garden tools. But many of them treat the document system and the UI as one bundle, which always bothered me. I mostly write in NeoVim, so I wanted the document system itself, the editing environment, and the application (usually a static site) to be separate things. I didn't need an all-in-one. I needed a system where I could fine-tune the rules programmatically, and since sharing my digital garden with others matters too, the application UI had to be customizable as well. So I created Simpesys.

Simpesys focuses only on the document system, things like hierarchy and cross-references between documents, and keeps the user interface as a completely separate layer. The document system is the trickiest part of building a digital garden, and Simpesys provides that as a headless tool. The UI is handled through a plugin system, so users can customize it however they want. The users could even use another tool's UI on top of Simpesys if they wanted. (Respecting the original authors and their licenses, of course.)

It's not perfect yet, but I hope it inspires anyone with similar needs. As the first user of Simpesys, I keep improving it.

Simpesys's homepage is itself built with Simpesys: https://pedia.simpesys.deno.net/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47412917

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Networked Thought

parksb — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:07:28 +0000

Article URL: https://jzhao.xyz/posts/networked-thought

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47387524

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by parksb in "Show HN: Han – A Korean programming language written in Rust"

parksb — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 06:07:29 +0000

Yes, countries in the Sinosphere have historically used Chinese characters to write their languages. That's why Korean "yaksok" and Japanese "yakusoku" sound so similar. Both words are written with the same Chinese characters, "約束". The characters were borrowed from Chinese, but each language adapted them to its own pronunciation system.

For example, "library" is pronounced "tu-shu-guan" in Chinese, "do-seo-gwan" in Korean, and "to-sho-kan" in Japanese. All three can be written with the same characters, "圖書館". In modern Korea, though, people use Hangul, so very few Koreans actually know how to write "library" in Chinese characters. In Japan, Chinese characters are still heavily used, but for difficult ones, they often write kana alongside them as a reading aid.

It's very much like how Latin "universitas" became "university" in English, "universidad" in Spanish, and "università" in Italian.

New comment by parksb in "Show HN: Han – A Korean programming language written in Rust"

parksb — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 01:43:06 +0000

Great work :) If you're interested in Korean programming languages, there's a functional one called 'Nuri': https://github.com/suhdonghwi/nuri/

Rather than just translating keywords, it lets you write code that actually uses Korean grammar. For example, "10을 5로 나누고 출력하다" (literally "10 by 5 divide and print") outputs "2".

You might already know this, but there's also a Korean programming language called 'Yaksok'. Here's a 2048 written entirely in Korean: https://github.com/yaksok/yaksok/blob/master/code_examples/2...

New comment by parksb in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

parksb — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 01:18:30 +0000

I think it should have been launched on April 1st.

Annotating for Agents

parksb — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:30:23 +0000

Article URL: https://benji.org/annotating

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47319110

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

AI Agent Reliability Tracker

parksb — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 10:25:09 +0000

Article URL: https://hal.cs.princeton.edu/reliability/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47296139

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Introduction to Programming Languages

parksb — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 08:22:41 +0000

Article URL: https://hjaem.info/itpl

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45311498

Points: 76

# Comments: 9

(In)Security of Mandatory Security Software for Financial Services in S. Korea [pdf]

parksb — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 02:47:29 +0000

Article URL: https://syssec.kaist.ac.kr/pub/2025/Too_Much_Good.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44265323

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

The AI Scientist Generates Its First Peer-Reviewed Scientific Publication

parksb — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 09:08:24 +0000

Article URL: https://sakana.ai/ai-scientist-first-publication/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43351488

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

RFC 9518: Centralization, Decentralization, and Internet Standards

parksb — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 06:48:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9518.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38692635

Points: 4

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Show HN: Zap – A library for building multi-device applications

parksb — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 08:36:35 +0000

Zap is an application programming library for building multi-device applications that enable communication with other devices. While mobile devices offer a wide range of data sources, such as motion sensors, biometric sensors, microphones, touchscreens and more, traditional PCs like laptops and desktops typically lack these resources.

The data sources available on mobile devices are valuable, but are often device-dependent, limiting their widespread use. Imagine if PCs could use the series of data from the accelerometer sensor on a mobile device. A simple example is using a smartphone as motion controller for PC.

To overcome the limitation that data sources are confined to a single mobile device, Zap provides its own network protocol and programming interface to access data sources on other devices.

The main goal of Zap is to support mobile-PC communication, but it also extends its capabilities to enable mobile-mobile and PC-PC communication. Furthermore, it's not limited to PCs; any devices capable of running Zap implementations(e.g., Kiosk device, Smart TV, etc.) can also participate in this communication.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38528334

Points: 1

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Show HN: Zap – Turn your smartphone into a motion controller for PC

parksb — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 09:18:03 +0000

To overcome the limitation that data sources are confined to a single mobile device, Zap provides its own network protocol and programming interface to access data sources on other devices.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38345258

Points: 1

# Comments: 0