Hacker News: ynniv

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

ynniv — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:09:40 +0000

i'm building a common lisp operating system capable of diverse double compilation and booting a raspberry pi.

well, claude is: https://modus-lisp.github.io

New comment by ynniv in "Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs"

ynniv — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:06:07 +0000

you can't wave your hands, say "zero knowledge", and be private. this is too little information to be useful

New comment by ynniv in "Creepy Crawlies"

ynniv — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 20:57:10 +0000

sounds right to me. ai will shred it

New comment by ynniv in "Creepy Crawlies"

ynniv — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:06:27 +0000

this is an increasingly common situation. it goes something like:

  - i have a free, niche resource
  - it becomes too popular
  - i make it more efficient
  - now it's really popular, and people are "abusing" it
  - let's make them proof-of-work
  - ... and proof-of-work harder
  - but now "legitimate" users can't use it
  - ???

the core problem is that the average person uses a mobile device where work is expensive, and the "attackers" use servers where work is cheap. if you require expensive proof-of-work, next comes a cheap-work-as-a-service where inefficient mobile devices pay small amounts of money to get efficient servers to complete their work for them. now everyone has an interest in making their usage efficient, but there's still an obvious inefficiency in the system: why have people pay unknown 3rd parties to burn cpu cycles to reduce costs for a free service, when you could just have people make small payments that cover the service's costs?

which is called l402/x402. micropayments' day has come

New comment by ynniv in "A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp"

ynniv — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:38:19 +0000

i've spent decades reading and writing code. i just want something that works

New comment by ynniv in "A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp"

ynniv — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:59:31 +0000

I have a work-in-progress called Modus. 100% written by Claude, so take that however you will. The current release boots on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. The next release (unreleased in the pipe for ~ months) is standard Common Lisp on bare aarch64 (pi) and x64 (qemu for now), with linux aarch64 and x64 command line interfaces à la sbcl.

https://github.com/modus-lisp/modus

Since you can't use an OS by itself, I've rounded out the Common Lisp environment with portable ssh client and server, web browser, and a bitcoin node. Framebuffer with VNC in the pipe

New comment by ynniv in "Show HN: Yamanote.fun – A complete soundscape for Tokyo's Yamanote line"

ynniv — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:51:09 +0000

+1 Having a travel time speed of [∞, realtime] would make this installation art

New comment by ynniv in "CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps"

ynniv — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:32:50 +0000

damn, that's an unintentionally amazing advertisement for comaps. downloading now! X-D

New comment by ynniv in "Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down"

ynniv — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:46:26 +0000

nostr

New comment by ynniv in "NTSB Preliminary Report – UPS Boeing MD-11F Crash [pdf]"

ynniv — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 19:52:46 +0000

it would seem so. so the question is why they would maintain an air gap for a safety report

New comment by ynniv in "NTSB Preliminary Report – UPS Boeing MD-11F Crash [pdf]"

ynniv — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 19:26:12 +0000

pretty weird...

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New comment by ynniv in "Who needs Graphviz when you can build it yourself?"

ynniv — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 12:58:33 +0000

eclipse also does better than dot, but it's useful to notice that graphviz never dies

https://github.com/eclipse-elk/elk

New comment by ynniv in "The Majority AI View"

ynniv — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 06:03:14 +0000

personally i find llms to be absurdly capable, and people are just using them wrong

New comment by ynniv in "That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus"

ynniv — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 12:55:46 +0000

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New comment by ynniv in "Imperial Tyranny, Korean Humiliation"

ynniv — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 22:55:17 +0000

i'm in atlanta. i used google. it took five seconds

New comment by ynniv in "Imperial Tyranny, Korean Humiliation"

ynniv — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 22:30:39 +0000

try google. it took 5 seconds

New comment by ynniv in "Imperial Tyranny, Korean Humiliation"

ynniv — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 22:18:02 +0000

a leaked document shows that at least one person was recognized to have the appropriate visa and was coerced into leaving "voluntarily". no details on how prevalent this was have been released

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/10/hyundai-fact...

New comment by ynniv in "Human writers have always used the em dash"

ynniv — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 12:43:59 +0000

surrounded by spaces... right?

New comment by ynniv in "TrackWeight: Turn your MacBook's trackpad into a digital weighing scale"

ynniv — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 17:46:48 +0000

Finally some hacker news

New comment by ynniv in "Devstral"

ynniv — Thu, 22 May 2025 00:28:37 +0000

https://github.com/block/goose