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Re:A website that lists websites to submit your website to on Thursday June 18, 2026 @01:40PM (#48588802)
I have been maintaining my own metalist of directories where one can submit their indie/personal websites to. In alphabetical order, here is what it looks like right now:

https://blogroll.org/

https://blogs.hn/ (by @surprisetalk)

https://hnpwd.github.io/ (I am one of the maintainers)

https://iii.social/ (by @freshman_dev)

https://indieblog.page/ (by @splitbrain)

https://kagi.com/smallweb/ (by @freediver)

https://marginalia-search.com/ (by @marginalia_nu)

https://minifeed.net/ (by @freetonik)

https://susam.net/wander/ (I developed this)

https://text.blogosphere.app/ (by @ramkarthikk)

https://wiby.me/

A clarification: The Wander link above (which I developed) is not something where you list your website. It is a tool you host on your website to become part of a decentralised network of personal websites (much like in a webring, except that the network is shaped like a graph rather than a ring): https://susam.codeberg.page/wcn/. More details here: https://codeberg.org/susam/wander

Re:Alexander Grothendieck Revolutionized 20th-Century Mathematics on Sunday May 24, 2026 @02:27AM (#48254934)
One of my favourite Grothendieck stories from <https://www.ams.org/notices/200410/fea-grothendieck-part2.pd...>:

> One striking characteristic of Grothendieck's mode of thinking is that it seemed to rely so little on examples. This can be seen in the legend of the so-called "Grothendieck prime". In a mathematical conversation, someone suggested to Grothendieck that they should consider a particular prime number. "You mean an actual number?" Grothendieck asked. The other person replied, yes, an actual prime number. Grothendieck suggested, "All right, take 57."

Re:PHP's Oddities on Saturday May 23, 2026 @01:43PM (#48249567)
I attended a talk by Rasmus Lerdorf at a FOSS conference in 2006. It has been a long time, so I remember only a few things from the talk, but one thing I remember him talking about is how people love to complain about PHP, often on forums that are themselves written in PHP.

Ask HN: Do you have a colophon for your personal website?

Posted by susam on Saturday May 23, 2026 @10:41AM
from the ask-hn dept.

A colophon is a page or section (typically in a footer) of a site that describes how the site is made, with what tools, supporting what technologies, and often published on personal sites at a top level /colophon page. (Source: https://indieweb.org/colophon)Do you maintain a colophon for your website? If so, please share it here. It will be nice to see how other people from the HN community set...

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Re:Google Declaring War on the Web on Thursday May 21, 2026 @12:34AM (#48217902)
Also, here is a list of all known personal websites participating in the Wander network: https://susam.codeberg.page/wcn/
Re:Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format on Saturday May 16, 2026 @03:47AM (#48157819)
I have normally found any sort of timed technical competition intimidating. Even so, about 6 or 7 years ago, after being persuaded by a colleague, I participated in a few CTFs. I am glad I did, back when this type of thing still meant something. I have kept a screenshot from one of the CTFs that I am quite fond of: https://susam.net/files/blog/ctf-2019.png

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