Hacker News: ya1sec

New comment by ya1sec in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

ya1sec — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 02:28:37 +0000

Funny, one of the posts has the following hashtag: #humanwritten

New comment by ya1sec in "Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?"

ya1sec — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 22:26:42 +0000

I use are.na to store links in appropriate channels. I have their chrome extension mapped to a keyboard shortcut on my desktop. On mobile I use a separate shortcut. I save links many times throughout the day, trying to curate content that I think is useful or interesting. I’m building several tools derived from this practice.

My are.na bookmarks: https://www.are.na/ya-1sec/bookmarks-1ntdk32bur0

An app i made that surfaces a random page harvested from a few interesting channels: https://moonjump.app/

New comment by ya1sec in "Search all text in New York City"

ya1sec — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 01:48:16 +0000

amazing. look up some graffiti writers you know

New comment by ya1sec in "WikiTok"

ya1sec — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 21:04:00 +0000

Yeah, pretty similar to StumbleUpon. Right now the links are sourced from a handful of are.na channels and some other collections of content. I plan on warehousing this data and tagging it such that users can configure categories of sites that they'd like to stumble upon. HN submissions are mixed into the algorithm as well.

New comment by ya1sec in "WikiTok"

ya1sec — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 20:26:37 +0000

hahahha. try the search engine - it uses the marginalia API and will select a random result to embed. maybe don't search for herpes though.

New comment by ya1sec in "WikiTok"

ya1sec — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 20:24:30 +0000

it starts with sourcing - finding a massive set of interesting pages, then going through and giving them tags. planning on adding this to my web discovery app as well: https://moonjump.app/

New comment by ya1sec in "WikiTok"

ya1sec — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 20:22:24 +0000

Awesome. I have a project with a similar tik-tok-esque philosophy for serving all sorts of noncommercial content from the web. The interface is one button and a random page is embedded in an iframe. I use random wikipedia pages as a fallback in case my algorithm returns a dead page.

I call it moonjump: https://moonjump.app/

New comment by ya1sec in "Ask HN: What's the most creative 'useless' program you've ever written?"

ya1sec — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 15:52:05 +0000

https://moonjump.app/

It’s a window into the small web. Just click a button to open a random site harvested from are.na, marginalia, etc. It used to just be a server but ever since I’ve made this TikTok-esque UX I’ve been kinda addicted to it

The Infinite Small Web

ya1sec — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 13:27:44 +0000

Article URL: https://moonjump.app

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40086569

Points: 3

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New comment by ya1sec in "We need to rewild the internet"

ya1sec — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 22:13:33 +0000

Gonna plug my project: https://moonjump.app/

I have a keyboard shortcut that opens moonjump.app/jump, which will redirect to a random site

New comment by ya1sec in "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)"

ya1sec — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 19:41:18 +0000

I like this sentiment. A Wittgenstein collection called “Philosophical Grammar” contains a lot of these kinds of thoughts.

New comment by ya1sec in "A room-temperature superconductor? New developments"

ya1sec — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 20:35:23 +0000

Returned Telephone Reproduction Plans

New comment by ya1sec in "Full Time"

ya1sec — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 18:58:10 +0000

Best of luck. Easily my favorite project. Emailed Viktor last year about using the marginalia API for my side project[1] and he responded almost immediately. I use the API to get marginalia's arcane search results for a given query and choose a random link from those results to redirect. Endless fun.

Hope to see it continue to grow until the internet goes dark.

[1] https://moonjump.app/

New comment by ya1sec in "This link is a random dev tool"

ya1sec — Wed, 03 May 2023 23:20:06 +0000

Oops. I tried to post https://moonjump.app/devtools, which is a server that redirects to a random tool from a very long list of links. The post seems to have hit the server and chosen the first link as the URL

New comment by ya1sec in "This link is a random dev tool"

ya1sec — Wed, 03 May 2023 23:17:55 +0000

More info: https://moonjump.app

This link is a random dev tool

ya1sec — Wed, 03 May 2023 23:17:55 +0000

Article URL: https://nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/682571098666205184/dalle2-comments

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35809149

Points: 3

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New comment by ya1sec in "Launch HN: Lume (YC W23) – Generate custom data integrations with AI"

ya1sec — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 13:07:26 +0000

Will this functionality be available only as a no-code tool? I'd love to see a python library or something of the sort.

New comment by ya1sec in "Doors I touched today (1999)"

ya1sec — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 04:25:09 +0000

I made a server that redirects you to a random site from a selection of are.na channels, where users actively add interesting sites. There’s a bit more to it than that - you can read about it on the homepage: https://moonjump.app

Add https://moonjump.app/jump to your bookmarks if you want a shortcut to jump to a random site.

New comment by ya1sec in "A Malleable Web"

ya1sec — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 01:20:22 +0000

Sure, this has been possible all along, and I've been using plain old python and javascript to do it. The essence of hacking is in effect making things "malleable to the point that the data it holds can be re-shaped into something else".

That said, I don't have a problem with re-skinning it as something of a bold new frontier. Honestly, it might be useful to express that sentiment at somewhat frequently - maybe it inspires someone who hadn't had that thought before. The advent of LLMs also makes this type of hacking accessible to non-programmers.

New comment by ya1sec in "A Malleable Web"

ya1sec — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 23:45:18 +0000

> If a website is completely malleable to the point that the data it holds can be re-shaped into something else, then you can almost see a website as an application programming interface (API).

> A future where websites are combined into local frankensteins, only pulling the data it needs and combines it on a new website that does not exist.

This is exactly what I want to see. I've been toying around with similar ideas myself but prompting GPT-n with your instructions will make this extremely accessible. Browser configurability will be crucial, but we seem to be doing pretty well in that regard. Rare moment of optimism. Thanks for posting.