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Post by galuggus »

mfrisbie wrote: post #55
galuggus wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The book looks great. I want to build an ad-blocker. Could you recommend a good open source projects to learn from? Previous extension I made: www.fuckoff.yt

The best mv2 repository would of course be ublock origin: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock The best mv3 repository would be AdGuard's https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardMV3 For a generalized ad blocker, importing and updating filter lists is probably the most challenging bit. https://kb.adguard.com/en/general/adguard-ad-filters AdGuard has an amazing blog, their content is impressively broad and deep https://adgu…

Thanks

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Post by rx_tx »

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/

If you want to watch a cool talk about the evolution of NFO and ascii (color) art scene and processes, I recommend watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILNs1GChGDk

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Post by DonHopkins »

shaunxcode wrote: post #165

It’s called lisp-machine-punk and it’s similar to solar or steam punk except we imagine a world where the lisp machine became the dominant paradigm for all forms of computing. The difference between lisp-machine-punk and other *-punks is there is a tangible path forward eg revive and build lisp machines!

That's Hyper-Super-Meta-Control-Awesome!

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Post by DonHopkins »

meadhbh-hamrick wrote: post #12

I sometimes write COBOL programs for fun. Seriously... one of the things COBOL used to require and still strongly encourages is to declare record types before procedures (the Data Division is before the Procedure Division). There's a Fred Brooks quote that goes: "Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowcharts; they'l…

Cobol Forever!

https://donhopkins.medium.com/cobol-forever-1a49f7d28a39

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Post by spike021 »

Haven't participated and have long lost touch with just about everyone, but the Playstation Portable hacking/homebrew development community. Most people in it were incredibly smart and fun. Just being a fly on the wall is part of why I decided to become a software engineer.

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

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Post by DonHopkins »

guyrap wrote: post #41

Databending. Which is applying random noise to a file in order to generate something that still decodes well, but has some weird/cool glitch. I went to a workshop about this in some underground club that no longer operates; still thinking about it and toying around from time to time. This was waaaay before Dall-E et al. were cool ways to generate quasi-crappy images. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Databending

Try taking a 1MB compressed text file (with some interesting text), cutting it in half, and replacing the second half with random numbers, then uncompress it.

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Post by DonHopkins »

blacksmithgu wrote: post #174
europeanguy wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 :)

"Plate of Shrimp"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRJ5cCP0ZPE

"The more you drive, the less intelligent you are."

BTW, Jim Gettys is the cofounder of the Bufferbloat group! He's an extremely smart and nice guy, and it's a great and important cause to support and contribute to. So much has changed since the original TCP/IP protocols were designed... All that cheap memory is a double edged sword when widely deployed in routers running protocols designed in the 70's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Gettys

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

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Post by tomodachi94 »

The Minecraft computer mods space (ComputerCraft/CC: Tweaked, OpenComputers, etc). If you don't know what these are, they add programmable computers into Minecraft.

People have made package managers, graphics libraries, GUI frameworks, and even a few game console emulators.

- https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/cc-tweaked: Summary of ComputerCraft/CC: Tweaked.

- https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/opencomputers: Summary of OpenComputers.

- https://forums.computercraft.cc: Home of a ton of awesome creations.

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Post by adzm »

bckr wrote: post #4

I'm in the deep learning music scene, which is due for its stable diffusion moment in the next year or two. The (primarily) timbre transfer system called RAVE is where I'm starting, and my contribution is to optimize the system to improve training time. [] https://github.com/acids-ircam/RAVE/tree/master/rave

This is some really interesting work. Do you happen to have any other good links to see state of the art kind of stuff here? Most of what I happen across seems to be based on MIDI patterns rather than audio.
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