Hacker News: salgorithm

New comment by salgorithm in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"

salgorithm — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 06:28:44 +0000

I'm making a site for up-to-date train/bus times that's bookmark-able. Currently I have a few San Francisco Bay Area agencies.

https://transit.directory/

New comment by salgorithm in "Instagram data breach reportedly exposed the personal info of 17.5M users"

salgorithm — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 16:33:05 +0000

I have a masked email* for Instagram and have received two password reset requests in the last five days. Obviously, this is just an anecdote.

* https://support.1password.com/fastmail/

Show HN: Gobley – Call Rust from Kotlin Multiplatform

salgorithm — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 19:55:54 +0000

Hi Hacker News, we've just released Gobley v0.2.0!

Gobley provides Gradle build integration between Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) and Cargo for Android, iOS, and JVM. Kotlin/JS and Kotlin/WASM support is planned, so stay tuned!

We also have some documentation for newcomers: - Hands-on tutorial: https://gobley.dev/docs/tutorial - Cross-compilation tips to integrate Kotlin, Rust, and C++: https://gobley.dev/docs/cross-compilation-tips - Cross-platform example app (Android, iOS, Windows API, & Linux GTK): https://github.com/gobley/gobley/tree/main/examples/app/src - GitHub discussions: https://github.com/gobley/gobley/discussions

Gobley is a fork of the (now archived) uniffi-kotlin-multiplatform-bindings (https://gitlab.com/trixnity/uniffi-kotlin-multiplatform-bind...) which is built on Mozilla’s excellent (still active) UniFFI (https://github.com/mozilla/uniffi-rs) project.

Please try it out and let us know what you think!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43604424

Points: 1

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New comment by salgorithm in "MCP server for Ghidra"

salgorithm — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 20:00:35 +0000

Block has an open source tool called Goose that invokes MCP. https://block.github.io/goose/

New comment by salgorithm in "Ask HN: Great maker projects for 8th grade kids and above?"

salgorithm — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 19:47:49 +0000

You can have a lot of fun with a tiny traffic light using an Arduino and three different color lights. There are bunch of things you can do to build on it.

- 3d print a stand (here's one I did https://github.com/SalvatoreT/howmm/blob/master/week06/Traff...)

- incorporate an infrared sensor + infrared light to simulate triggering the red -> green flow

- make an intersection with each of the lights working together to show the right thing at the right time

- add a crosswalk

New comment by salgorithm in "Ask HN: What's the most creative 'useless' program you've ever written?"

salgorithm — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 23:23:13 +0000

A while back I wrote this useless site where you put in a string and it gives you a Ruby one liner to output that string.

https://monkeynumber.xyz/

i.e. "bird" gives you

ruby -e "srand(267343);puts 4.times.map{rand(97..123).chr}.join"

which will return "bird" if you run it from your command line

I do a brute force attempt at it, but (maybe one day) will peel back Mersenne Twister and get a more optimized implementation.

New comment by salgorithm in "Advice for new software devs who've read all those other advice essays"

salgorithm — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 18:27:16 +0000

HN hug of death. Here's the Wayback link. https://web.archive.org/web/20231220091455/https://buttondow...

New comment by salgorithm in "Halfsies"

salgorithm — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 18:52:46 +0000

I wonder if growing up with similar-aged siblings gives you a natural advantage at this game.

Dagger 2.48 adds alpha KSP support

salgorithm — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 17:39:29 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/google/dagger/releases/tag/dagger-2.48

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37325858

Points: 1

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New comment by salgorithm in "Jazz² Resurrection: Open-source Jazz Jackrabbit 2 reimplementation"

salgorithm — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 21:31:59 +0000

https://web.archive.org/web/20230820203915/http://deat.tk/ja...

New comment by salgorithm in "Tokenized Tokens"

salgorithm — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 21:38:55 +0000

I could imagine developers using something like this to get credentials off laptops.

New comment by salgorithm in "ChatGPT loses users for first time, shaking faith in AI revolution"

salgorithm — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 18:30:26 +0000

If a lot of ChatGPT users were students, I would expect a drop during summer vacation.

I predict another article from the Washington Post in August/September about how ChatGPT is seeing a rebound in usage.

New comment by salgorithm in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

salgorithm — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 16:01:49 +0000

https://sal.dev/

New comment by salgorithm in "Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic"

salgorithm — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 20:01:46 +0000

mirror link https://skeeet.xyz/?url=https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/po...

New comment by salgorithm in "πfs – A data-free filesystem"

salgorithm — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 15:38:46 +0000

People will do anything nowadays to lower their AWS bill.

New comment by salgorithm in "Remembering Bob Lee"

salgorithm — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 18:34:39 +0000

The anecdote I always share about my 2013 internship at Square involves Bob. It took place during the quarterly Hack Week, when the company allowed everyone to take a break from work and build whatever they liked. Cash App (known as "Square Cash" back then) had just been launched, and the only way to send money was by emailing someone with a dollar amount in the subject line and cc'ing cash@square.com. My fellow interns and I decided to expand this email functionality by building a "pay by Tweet" feature with essentially the same mechanics (https://twitter.com/hackweek9bot).

We downloaded the codebase (I believe it was called "Franklin") and found ourselves struggling to get it up and running. I entered the room where the Cash team was seated and started asking a random guy questions about the dependency injection library (Guice) and various other topics. After about half an hour of answering my questions, he compiled a list of documentation for me to read and sent it to me via email. I returned to my Hack Week team and forwarded the email to them. "Oh, dude, that's our CTO," one of my teammates informed me. At that moment, I was convinced I would be in trouble for bothering an executive. However, instead of that, I ended up receiving a fist bump during our science fair-style project presentation. He was a genuinely cool guy.

Running Rust on Android with UniFFI

salgorithm — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 16:16:29 +0000

Article URL: https://sal.dev/android/intro-rust-android-uniffi/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35233830

Points: 1

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New comment by salgorithm in "Drop-in endpoint observability for Docker and K8s"

salgorithm — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 00:39:18 +0000

I was confused by the first chart where they cropped off the Y-Axis label.

I thought the X-Axis was "# of people at the company" and the Y-Axis was "# of developers". That wouldn't make sense because the "less than 10" person company would have "16.40" developers!

I found the survey they mentioned. The Y-Axis is "Number of Internal APIs" which makes much more sense. https://rapidapi.com/blog/rapidapi-developer-survey-insights...

Null Island

salgorithm — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 18:24:12 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34860299

Points: 7

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Set up a free Mastodon-ready server in under 20 minutes with Pleroma and Fly.io

salgorithm — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 15:38:38 +0000

Article URL: https://sal.dev/fediverse/running-pleroma-on-fly-io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33753479

Points: 3

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