Hacker News: textfiles

New comment by textfiles in "ASCII by Jason Scott"

textfiles — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:30:22 +0000

I'm the guy in the shirt!

New comment by textfiles in "ASCII by Jason Scott"

textfiles — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:19:07 +0000

There's a bad setting on my virtual host. I'm in conversation with the support team about getting it tuned up.

New comment by textfiles in "Manuals Plus: The Wrap-Up"

textfiles — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:12:00 +0000

Hurrah!

New comment by textfiles in "Fuck the cloud (2009)"

textfiles — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:40:35 +0000

Well, ASCII is a different box than textfiles.com. I suppose I could host the site on that box, but I have a rule with the original textfiles.com that no scripts are being run on it, hence less chance of hacking, etc. Someday I'll figure out the exact right setting for ASCII to not do this when a few thousand people hit it, but honestly, it is very hard to care.

New comment by textfiles in "Fuck the cloud (2009)"

textfiles — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:34:38 +0000

Yes, I've taken a long walk and spoken with my team and I'm emotionally fine with the situation.

New comment by textfiles in "Fuck the cloud (2009)"

textfiles — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:32:49 +0000

Classics never go out of style.

New comment by textfiles in "Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove"

textfiles — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:20:41 +0000

He just really, really, really committed himself.

New comment by textfiles in "Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove"

textfiles — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:19:44 +0000

I don't have to do anything.

New comment by textfiles in "Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove"

textfiles — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:47:43 +0000

Shout out to everyone in this thread who seem unable to understand a club might have three unrelated acts on, so each performance is called a "concert" under this collection. Aadam and the crew are focused on making each performance a separate entity instead of grouping them up. Substitute "performance" for "concert" if it helps.

Carry on.

New comment by textfiles in "Blocking Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, but Will Erase Web's Historical Record"

textfiles — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 23:14:12 +0000

Why mess with perfection?

New comment by textfiles in "Internet Archive's Storage"

textfiles — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:07:44 +0000

Badlibrarian, you had a very fun run.

You got to be 30% correct with Internet Archive criticism and enjoy unfettered, sometimes problematic commentary with little pushback.

Maybe you should take what your version of the W is.

New comment by textfiles in "Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructure"

textfiles — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 07:07:05 +0000

The assumptions are still pretty zesty, now you just made them longer.

New comment by textfiles in "Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructure"

textfiles — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 04:13:42 +0000

There was a lot of renovation. One day they fired up the pipe organ (which still works) inside the building as well as the servers and the transformer for the street blew up. That was a legendary day.

New comment by textfiles in "Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructure"

textfiles — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 04:12:09 +0000

We've had showdowns with lawyers, governments, hackers and spammers, but I'm not sure how we'll stand up against perception.

New comment by textfiles in "Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructure"

textfiles — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 04:10:48 +0000

Fridays at about 1pm, we give tours.

New comment by textfiles in "Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructure"

textfiles — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 04:10:11 +0000

It's an AI-generated article. It's going to be pretty terrible.

New comment by textfiles in "Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructure"

textfiles — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 04:06:46 +0000

This seems like a lot of zesty made-up assumptions.

And a lot of non-profits would be very very surprised to hear that once you cross the threshold of $9,999,999 costs, you are a business.

New comment by textfiles in "Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructure"

textfiles — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 02:28:54 +0000

Here's some photos I took a long time ago.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/textfiles/albums/7215763372220...

New comment by textfiles in "Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructure"

textfiles — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 02:21:36 +0000

Show me the faster wayback machine we are competing against.

New comment by textfiles in "Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructure"

textfiles — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:19:13 +0000

It is on my desk to fix this soon.