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by ers35 6mo ago
Use the trigram tokenizer: https://www.sqlite.org/fts5.html#the_trigram_tokenizer
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by ers35 4y ago
See also: https://phoboslab.org/log/2023/02/qoa-time-domain-audio-comp...
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by ers35 6y ago
Maybe Cosmopolitan could be used with luastatic[1] to compile a Lua program to an "Actually Portable Executable": CC="" luastatic main.lua # Compile main.luastatic.c with Cosmopolitan Libc [1] https:/&#x2F
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by ers35 6y ago
Mirror: https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/a-prerecorded-...
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by ers35 6y ago
Mirror: http://archive.is/ewDJq
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by ers35 7y ago
I've been focusing on reading, but it looks like there is interest in writing too. The HN API doesn't support writing, so the username and password has to be stored. It's important that reading keeps working even if HN change
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by ers35 7y ago
You can search previous comments: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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by ers35 7y ago
HN itself is fast, but the comparison I'm making is with readers that use the HN API. See how getting each comment requires an additional API request: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/22481199.json?p
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by ers35 7y ago
There have been many HN related websites posted over the years, but a lot end up as dead links. A self-hosted version does not depend on a third party. Another reason is to minimize the round trip latency of contacting a central server. Con
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by ers35 7y ago
That reminds me of how https://forum.dlang.org works: https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed It also uses SQLite.
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by ers35 7y ago
You might find this interesting: https://github.com/donnemartin/haxor-news
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by ers35 7y ago
Great idea. This could also be useful to post a mirror for other users if the site ends up going down.
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by ers35 7y ago
I prototyped this in Qt 2 years ago: https://ers35.com/files/hackernews-qt.png 1) It is possible to keep the whole site offline. A database from 2017 is 9 GB: https://archive.org/details/hackernews
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Ask HN: What features for an offline Hacker News reader?
57 points by ers35 7y ago|38 comments
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by ers35 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Bunny_Foo_Foo
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by ers35 9y ago
My DB covers from https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/1.json?print=pret... (10/09/2006 at 6:21pm UTC) to https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/14372035.json?pri...
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by ers35 9y ago
7.27 GB.
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by ers35 9y ago
You can see the size of the download by clicking show all: https://archive.org/download/14566367HackerNewsCommentsAndSt...
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by ers35 9y ago
See also: A dump of the stories, comments, and users from the Firebase API as a SQLite database with a full text search index: https://archive.org/details/hackernews-2017-05-18.db
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VFsync – secure file synchronization system(vfsync.org)
4 points by ers35 9y ago|0 comments
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by ers35 9y ago
I'm working on a tool that maintains an up to date archive of Hacker News and a companion tool to browse and search it. I'm not ready to release yet, but here is a dump of the stories, comments, and users from the Firebase API as
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by ers35 10y ago
If you're a fan of demoscene music, see Nectarine Demoscene Radio at https://www.scenemusic.net/ .
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by ers35 10y ago
Yes. One can identify the IP address of the origin server behind a reverse proxy if the server responds to direct requests in a way that identifies itself. See: https://cloudpiercer.org/ Two steps towards obscuring the orig
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by ers35 10y ago
I used Censys to search for the IPv4 addresses of servers serving matching TLS certificates: https://censys.io/ipv4?q=443.https.tls.certificate.parsed.na...
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by ers35 10y ago
Hacker News uses Cloudflare: http://bgp.he.net/dns/news.ycombinator.com#_ipinfo Add the following to your hosts file to bypass Cloudflare and access HN directly: 50.22.90.248 news.ycombinator.com
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OVH to establish North American headquarters and first U.S. data center(governor.virginia.gov)
187 points by ers35 10y ago|94 comments
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by ers35 10y ago
See also "A BeagleBone on a Chip" for discussion about the Octavo Systems OSD3358 system-in-package used on this board: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11697719
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by ers35 10y ago
You may be interested in a tool I wrote that builds standalone executables: https://github.com/ers35/luastatic For the following program: iup.Message('test', 'hello world') Build the program
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by ers35 10y ago
Bindings are included: https://github.com/ers35/modserver/tree/master/src/api The Python module does not require one to use an FFI: https://github.com/ers35/modserver/blob&
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by ers35 10y ago
Here is a list of the 11 supported languages: C, C++, CGI, D, Go, Haskell, Lua, Nim, Python, Ruby, and Rust.

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