Urbit: a personal cloud computer • Hacker News Board

"A pier is an Urbit virtual machine that hosts one or more Urbit identities, or ships. When you run bin/vere -c, it automatically creates a 128-bit ship, or submarine. Your name (a hash of a randomly-generated public key) will look something like:

~machec-binnev-dordeb-sogduc--dosmul-sarrum-faplec-nidted,...

and I laughed. A lot.

Re: Urbit: a personal cloud computer

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Post by gfodor » Sat, Nov 08, 2014, 10:50 PM UTC

pxndx wrote: post #3

This is either a very elaborate joke or the future of computing.

They had me going in the Nock spec until "We should note that in Nock and Hoon, 0 (pronounced "yes") is true, and 1 ("no") is false. Why? It's fresh, it's different, it's new. And it's annoying. And it keeps you on your toes. And it's also just intuitively right."

Re: Urbit: a personal cloud computer

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Post by GuiA » Sat, Nov 08, 2014, 10:51 PM UTC

Urbit is a weird thing that feels like it comes from a parallel universe of computing. It's a bit hard to wrap your head around it at first, but it has some neat ideas.

I like this article which introduces it:

Urbit is perhaps how you'd do computing in a post-singularity world, where computational speed and bandwidth are infinite, and what's valuable is security, trust, creativity, and collaboration. It's essentially a combination of a programming language, OS, virtual machine, social network, and digital identity platform.

http://alexkrupp.typepad.com/sensemaking/2013/12/a-brief-int...