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Show HN: JavaScript-free imageboard in Lua, with CSS based widgets

spoonsort — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 15:53:56 +0000

If you're a visual learner, one of the biggest instances can be seen at:

http://lambdaplusjs35padjaiz4jw2fugdoeutse262phqr72uf634s2wd...

It's usually SWF. Some features include:

    - No javascript of any type is used anywhere. In fact, CSP is used to block
      execution of any and all javascript, which makes XSS attacks impossible.
    - High security due to the use of pledge() and unveil()
    - Highly transparent moderation logs which include a reason for all
      moderation actions
    - advanced formatting, including LaTeX support
    - anyone can create their own board
    - multiple files per post
    - inline image expansion
    - per-board index and recent pages
    - paginated catalog pages and threads
    - extensive moderation tools

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44636687

Points: 5

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New comment by spoonsort in "Ex-Waymo engineers launch Bedrock Robotics to automate construction"

spoonsort — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 16:58:16 +0000

Well said. The company is actually more focused on earth moving, but the same arguments you make apply there, if not even more. Earth moving is a very exhausting job that most would be glad to have automated. A little known fact is that you actually get boiled no matter what machinery you use in there on the black dirt mid day, and it's not totally safe; your machine could roll over if you aren't at the height of your awareness.

New comment by spoonsort in "Ask HN: What are your current programming pet peeves?"

spoonsort — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 16:43:12 +0000

When someone uses an odd number of indentation! That really grinds my gears for some reason.

New comment by spoonsort in "CAPTCHAs are over (in ticketing)"

spoonsort — Sun, 25 May 2025 21:58:40 +0000

Tunnel-visioned article, honestly. I mean, why does he gloss over the fact that scalpers don't care about captchas - they can just outsource solving them to other humans. Giving your driver's license or passport to some entertainment company's security-unaware sysadmins doesn't seem like a good idea either. Maybe just accept the fact that you gotta be lucky to see most famous band in the world in person. There are only x hundred seats for 10 million people...

New comment by spoonsort in "Internet Artifacts"

spoonsort — Thu, 15 May 2025 17:51:40 +0000

That just reminded me of original 128MB MP3 players, loaded straight from Napster. Ironically, I still struggle to fill an average sized modern equivalent with 512GB, even with FLAC.

New comment by spoonsort in "Git Bug: Distributed, Offline-First Bug Tracker Embedded in Git, with Bridges"

spoonsort — Wed, 14 May 2025 21:22:08 +0000

Just the fact that I can use it without a website is a game changer.

New comment by spoonsort in "What is HDR, anyway?"

spoonsort — Wed, 14 May 2025 16:44:13 +0000

Why is nobody talking about the standards development? They (OS, image formats) could just say all stuff by default assumes SDR and if a media file explicitly calls for HDR even then it cannot have sharp transitions except in special cases, and the software just blocks or truncates any non conforming images. The OS should have had something like this for sound, about 25-30 years ago. For example a brightness aware OS/monitor combo could just outright disallow anything about x nits. And disallow certain contrast levels, in the majority of content.

New comment by spoonsort in "Can you trust that permission pop-up on macOS?"

spoonsort — Tue, 13 May 2025 14:49:01 +0000

Yes, this is the whole issue with these kinds of systems. The message gets lost in translation to the user. An OG java applet would say "this app is signed, do you want to continue", and the engineer at the bottom is the only one that knows what that even really means, which is that the applet gets to run outside the sandbox if the user runs it. Windows UAC is similar, as are most Linux desktop security mechanisms.

New comment by spoonsort in "Plain Vanilla Web"

spoonsort — Sun, 11 May 2025 19:57:30 +0000

Not going to lie, that's a pretty out of touch opinion in the current decade, where most software feels an order of magnitude slower and less reactive than a mechanical device made 120 years ago.

New comment by spoonsort in "Plain Vanilla Web"

spoonsort — Sun, 11 May 2025 19:46:56 +0000

Be wary of building a website without a framework to abstract stuff like DOM usage and page generation. Raw webdev is hard, due to lots of compatibility issues at every level (CSS, HTML, JS) and are moving targets. You shouldn't even try it until you understand protocol design and have implemented some medium complexity standards like IRC and a basic DNS client or server.

New comment by spoonsort in "Accountability Sinks"

spoonsort — Sat, 03 May 2025 11:16:16 +0000

Ah, I love when I'm a software engineer sitting for coffee in the morning, and I open up my tech newspaper to read some extremely overly verbose way of explaining to me like I was just born that yelling at floor staff doesn't change anything (this is actually not a product of modern society, you could yell at a soldier fighting against you and that also won't change anything). Had to stop after that second massive quote. Seriously, what? I thought this was going to be about managing the 1000 compliance settings in Azure and how that sucks.

New comment by spoonsort in "Strings Just Got Faster"

spoonsort — Fri, 02 May 2025 22:21:54 +0000

Having a @Stable annotation which the standard library can use to signal things to the compiler like that is very smart. I wonder how many standard libraries are missing out on optimizations like this.

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

spoonsort — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 22:04:09 +0000

That's right up my alley. I've been thinking about writing something in this style but with a jazz biome twist (kind of like steampunk but with a jazz-centric world instead of steam power). Do you use a specific text editor or git workflow to manage your work?

New comment by spoonsort in "I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022)"

spoonsort — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 12:52:09 +0000

Nah, I'm young and even to me the author's just on the extreme side of "digital native". The first thing I saw in the article was this and knew it was fake, too: "Considering the storage constraints back then" (he's just repeating it, he doesn't know if it's actually applicable). And now you know why random blogs, while insightful, shouldn't be treated as gold truth.

New comment by spoonsort in "Mark Zuckerberg says social media is over"

spoonsort — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 22:25:59 +0000

> doom-scrolling

Just wait 'til you find out about imageboard doom-scrolling.