Hacker News: prestonlibby

New comment by prestonlibby in "Emacs Lisp Elements"

prestonlibby — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 04:01:54 +0000

> > What are the things you’ve written in elisp that have helped you? > > Usually tools to alleviate working with dumbass web-based (supposedly needing the corporate-approved browser) stuff for $DAY-JOB. > > Oh, and an extension to allow emacs-w3m to handle lynx-style multibookmarks.

This sparks my interest as I am in the early days of both customizing Emacs and attempting to displace some of my browsing with it as well. Could you elaborate further on this multibookmarks concept and perhaps an example of one of those alleviations for working with web-based workflows?

New comment by prestonlibby in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

prestonlibby — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 00:31:38 +0000

Just a friendly ping that your first link is throwing a 502, could be a gentle hug of death? Will check back later, it sounds very intriguing to me!

New comment by prestonlibby in "Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?"

prestonlibby — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 18:05:29 +0000

This is super interesting to me as I have been focused on picking up Emacs and Common Lisp this year for my own freelance and startup workloads. Would you ping me or reply here if you do end up open sourcing this?

New comment by prestonlibby in "Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone"

prestonlibby — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 02:04:49 +0000

I still have a HTC One M8 in use for Android bug bounty hunting, used it as my daily driver until 2020 thanks for LineageOS folks never letting it die. Those things were horrible to repair (sadly how many phones aren't these days) but amazing little devices. I still miss having a phone that size to be able to use comfortably in one hand.

New comment by prestonlibby in "Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone"

prestonlibby — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 02:01:37 +0000

Not saying it's a universal or even remotely complete solution however I've much enjoyed using KDE Connect[1] toward this goal for a couple years now with satisfactory results for my needs.

[1] https://kdeconnect.kde.org/

New comment by prestonlibby in "Show HN: Cassette, a Personal Programming Language"

prestonlibby — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 21:55:30 +0000

I can second this! I've been using it across my dev setup and window manager for almost a year now and haven't wanted to switch to anything else.

I really like how it looks on your page, it makes the code blocks feel "cozy" for lack of a better word.

New comment by prestonlibby in "LuaX: A Lua Dialect with JSX"

prestonlibby — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 13:31:19 +0000

Is your language available in some form? I would be curious to check it out. Are you running on top of BEAM given that you're using Erlang as a concurrency base?

New comment by prestonlibby in "Show HN: Compiler Plugin for Common Lisp in Vim"

prestonlibby — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 01:47:56 +0000

I am new to the CL world and currently only dabble in my (unfortunately limited) free time. I would love an example of how and when you are using this integration with quickfix list in the context of your projects. It would help someone more green like myself better grasp the utility.

On an aside, I really enjoyed the two linked posts regarding the usage of Vim vs. Emacs. I am far from mastery of either tool but learned Vim first, and am curious to emulate your setup. Many thanks for the work!

New comment by prestonlibby in "Ask HN: Seeking lost gems of the web: what have you been unable to find again?"

prestonlibby — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 16:40:30 +0000

I've searched high and low for someone who may have archived an interview with @todayisnew (the ethical hacker) to commemorate him reaching a milestone on the HackerOne platform.

It was streamed on Twitch via the official HackerOne channel and I kick myself for not realizing it would be autodeleted after a few days.

In it he talks about his methodology and it has one of my favorite clips from these types of interviews where (paraphrasing) he is asked what he is doing during a general, hypothetical bug discovery. He goes on to explain that he has automated the entire process such that he finds bugs in his sleep and it still excites me to think about.

New comment by prestonlibby in "Ask HN: Favorite place to discover open source projects?"

prestonlibby — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 16:20:24 +0000

I often skim through various "awesome lists" (e.g. [1]) and communities interested in open source apps like r/selfhosted [2]

[1] https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/

New comment by prestonlibby in "Ask HN: How do I train a custom LLM/ChatGPT on my own documents in Dec 2023?"

prestonlibby — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 13:45:07 +0000

"Retrieval augmented generation". I found success from "rag llm tutorial" as a search input to better explain the process.

New comment by prestonlibby in "How to make LLMs go fast"

prestonlibby — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 18:27:38 +0000

For anyone else who wishes to do so, Fireship has a low-barrier video[1] on training the uncensored model in the sibling comment (dolphin mistral) for local use.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyllRd2E6fg

New comment by prestonlibby in "Show HN: Hacker Live – real-time Hacker News client built using Phoenix LiveView"

prestonlibby — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 18:22:49 +0000

I get an Internal Server Error when I select any item. Ex. https://hackerlive.net/item/38709055