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Re:Emacs Lisp Elements on Sunday April 13, 2025 @12:01AM (#43669985)
> > What are the things you’ve written in elisp that have helped you? > > Usually tools to alleviate working with dumbass web-based (supposedly needing the corporate-approved browser) stuff for $DAY-JOB. > > Oh, and an extension to allow emacs-w3m to handle lynx-style multibookmarks.

This sparks my interest as I am in the early days of both customizing Emacs and attempting to displace some of my browsing with it as well. Could you elaborate further on this multibookmarks concept and perhaps an example of one of those alleviations for working with web-based workflows?

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025) on Sunday March 30, 2025 @08:31PM (#43529318)
Just a friendly ping that your first link is throwing a 502, could be a gentle hug of death? Will check back later, it sounds very intriguing to me!
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)? on Sunday August 25, 2024 @02:05PM (#41349607)
This is super interesting to me as I have been focused on picking up Emacs and Common Lisp this year for my own freelance and startup workloads. Would you ping me or reply here if you do end up open sourcing this?
Re:Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone on Thursday January 04, 2024 @09:04PM (#38874853)
I still have a HTC One M8 in use for Android bug bounty hunting, used it as my daily driver until 2020 thanks for LineageOS folks never letting it die. Those things were horrible to repair (sadly how many phones aren't these days) but amazing little devices. I still miss having a phone that size to be able to use comfortably in one hand.
Re:Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone on Thursday January 04, 2024 @09:01PM (#38874832)
Not saying it's a universal or even remotely complete solution however I've much enjoyed using KDE Connect[1] toward this goal for a couple years now with satisfactory results for my needs.

[1] https://kdeconnect.kde.org/

Re:Show HN: Cassette, a Personal Programming Language on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @04:55PM (#38860443)
I can second this! I've been using it across my dev setup and window manager for almost a year now and haven't wanted to switch to anything else.

I really like how it looks on your page, it makes the code blocks feel "cozy" for lack of a better word.

Re:LuaX: A Lua Dialect with JSX on Sunday December 31, 2023 @08:31AM (#38823914)
Is your language available in some form? I would be curious to check it out. Are you running on top of BEAM given that you're using Erlang as a concurrency base?
Re:Show HN: Compiler Plugin for Common Lisp in Vim on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @08:47PM (#38789047)
I am new to the CL world and currently only dabble in my (unfortunately limited) free time. I would love an example of how and when you are using this integration with quickfix list in the context of your projects. It would help someone more green like myself better grasp the utility.

On an aside, I really enjoyed the two linked posts regarding the usage of Vim vs. Emacs. I am far from mastery of either tool but learned Vim first, and am curious to emulate your setup. Many thanks for the work!

I've searched high and low for someone who may have archived an interview with @todayisnew (the ethical hacker) to commemorate him reaching a milestone on the HackerOne platform.

It was streamed on Twitch via the official HackerOne channel and I kick myself for not realizing it would be autodeleted after a few days.

In it he talks about his methodology and it has one of my favorite clips from these types of interviews where (paraphrasing) he is asked what he is doing during a general, hypothetical bug discovery. He goes on to explain that he has automated the entire process such that he finds bugs in his sleep and it still excites me to think about.

Re:Ask HN: Favorite place to discover open source projects? on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @11:20AM (#38783433)
I often skim through various "awesome lists" (e.g. [1]) and communities interested in open source apps like r/selfhosted [2]

[1] https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/

"Retrieval augmented generation". I found success from "rag llm tutorial" as a search input to better explain the process.
Re:How to make LLMs go fast on Friday December 22, 2023 @01:27PM (#38736966)
For anyone else who wishes to do so, Fireship has a low-barrier video[1] on training the uncensored model in the sibling comment (dolphin mistral) for local use.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyllRd2E6fg

I get an Internal Server Error when I select any item. Ex. https://hackerlive.net/item/38709055