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Re: Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of?

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Post by jamiek88 »

theonething wrote: post #52
conductor wrote: post #16

Disclaimer: I am in no way encouraging or advocating for software piracy. The warez scene in 90s and early 00s was fun to follow. I consider the NFO files a legitimate form of art, not to mention the skills for unpacking and keygen-ing or cracking of the protected software. https://scenelist.org/

growing up in the 80s with a Commodore 64, my friends and I never bought any games. They were all "cracked by $some_cracker"

Yeah we literally had a club we’d go to and just copy each others floppies!

As a poor 12 year old they weren’t losing money. I had none!

Re: Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of?

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Post by spfzero »

andruby wrote: post #63
pocket_cheese wrote: post #33

Web scraping. I love figuring out how to reverse engineer websites and defeat systems designed against web scrapers. It's also super interesting (concerning?) how much data websites leak. 4 out of the 5 bug bounties I've discovered have been while poking around in my scraping efforts.

What's a good tool/language to write scrapers in these days? A decade ago I was using ruby with mechanize and hpricot. I hope tools have improved since then, especially for scraping sites that use javascript.

A fun way, though maybe there are much more productive ways, is to learn Scheme and/or Lisp, and, with a language that has a library for it, convert the html to a big s-expression. Then you have it in a form that is the form of the language itself, where you can literally do anything with it.

Re: Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of?

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Post by blacksmithgu »

europeanguy wrote: post #159
muxamilian wrote: post #57

Decreasing network latency by tweaking routers/developing new software: https://www.bufferbloat.net

Do you know that weird phenomenon where you just learned a new word (which is weird in itself, how come I've live 20, 30, 40 year sand never saw this word before?!) and immediately after you see the same word again in an entirely different context? Well that just happened with "bufferbloat". I had just learned about this word on the book "alrogithms to live by". And now, here.

Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon, or simply the "frequency illusion". Or maybe just dumb luck :)

Re: Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of?

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Post by Balooga »

harryvederci wrote: post #129
munificent wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The amount of concatenative language interpreters I've abandoned is a bit embarassing. Earlier this week, I watched an excellent talk by Devine Lu Linvega where he was doing a bunch of digging into minimal programming languages. He spent a lot of time looking into Forth and other concatenative languages and he said he found a lot of implementations of the languages, but very little code written in them. It was as i…

> I watched an excellent talk by Devine Lu Linvega where he was doing a bunch of digging into minimal programming languages. Do you have a source of this video?

https://vimeo.com/771406693#t=85m30s

Handmade Seattle 2022, Day One. Around ~1h25min in. I assume this is the video.

Re: Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of?

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Post by whtrbt »

harryvederci wrote: post #129
munificent wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The amount of concatenative language interpreters I've abandoned is a bit embarassing. Earlier this week, I watched an excellent talk by Devine Lu Linvega where he was doing a bunch of digging into minimal programming languages. He spent a lot of time looking into Forth and other concatenative languages and he said he found a lot of implementations of the languages, but very little code written in them. It was as i…

> I watched an excellent talk by Devine Lu Linvega where he was doing a bunch of digging into minimal programming languages. Do you have a source of this video?

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1654475429 just over 36 mins in.

Re: Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of?

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Post by soulofmischief »

LAC-Tech wrote: post #10

- Systems that work offline. Partly for practical reasons due to my background working in Agtech companies, as well as logistics in developing countries. But also it's just technically and socially fascinating. How do you detect conflicts? How do you decide what one is? To what extent - if any - can it be resolved automatically? Revisions, event sourcing, CRDTs... there's no one size fits all industry solution and no…

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Re: Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of?

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Post by [deleted] »

conductor wrote: post #16

Disclaimer: I am in no way encouraging or advocating for software piracy. The warez scene in 90s and early 00s was fun to follow. I consider the NFO files a legitimate form of art, not to mention the skills for unpacking and keygen-ing or cracking of the protected software. https://scenelist.org/

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Re: Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of?

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Post by rufus_foreman »

theonething wrote: post #52
conductor wrote: post #16

Disclaimer: I am in no way encouraging or advocating for software piracy. The warez scene in 90s and early 00s was fun to follow. I consider the NFO files a legitimate form of art, not to mention the skills for unpacking and keygen-ing or cracking of the protected software. https://scenelist.org/

growing up in the 80s with a Commodore 64, my friends and I never bought any games. They were all "cracked by $some_cracker"

Grew up around the same time, we would typically change $some_cracker to our nicknames before trading them to the next person.
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