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Alex Pankratov
Personal blog · swapped.cc · on HN as latitudeprogrammingsecurity
Alex Pankratov writes alex pankratov, a personal blog at swapped.cc about programming and security. Since 2009, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 43 times, most often “Hamachi: The virtual private networking system”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (15) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Alex Pankratov's personal site for the history of Hamachi, the halloc hierarchical allocator that talloc drew on, and small pages on webfont smoothing and his personal mark.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 15 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Hamachi: The virtual private networking system4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-01-28
- Selectivity – hide unwanted HN stories from main page2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-06-23
- Font Smoothing Detection in Browsers2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-06-06
- /halloc2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-08-04
What Hacker News says?
Hamachi was amazing, one of the best, most focused apps I've ever used. We were kids but it was still easy to use. Then they were bought by LogMeIn and was killed unceremoniously. Also, it's old but not 90s old: https://swapped.cc/#!/hamachi released in 2004 actually.
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on “Tailscale is pretty useful”Submitted Google bot now appears to emulate users interacting with the site as a story · 130 points
HN discussionThere ya go :) https://swapped.cc/ From the time when I had too much free time.
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on “Building a Kickass Portfolio”Submitted Show HN: Password validity hinting as a story · 58 points
HN discussionPipemetrics - Lausanne, Switzerland - Local only Senior developer, C / C++ / Windows Looking for experienced developers to help expanding our existing product into a suite of complimentary products and services ( https://bvckup2.com ). -- Basic requirements - Solid C/C++ with a focus on producing lean and efficient code; considertable experience developing and shipping software for the Windows platform. Good to have…
Comment linking /hamachi
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015)”Submitted Show HN: Prune Unwanted Stories from HN Front Page as a story · 49 points
HN discussionI really like this page from the creator's personal website: https://swapped.cc/#!/personal-mark This "personal mark" seems to be encapsulated well in this kanban board. Bravo!
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on “Kanban board in one HTML using localstorage”Submitted Performance of a Paid Tweet as a story · 21 points
HN discussionThis needs an awesome progress bar - http://swapped.cc/uploader - saw this on reddit few weeks ago
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on “Awesome jQuery File Upload”Submitted On Linked Lists as a story · 20 points
HN discussionHamachi was created by Alex Pankratov. Once LogMeIn purchased Hamachi, they ruined it with the following update ( either purposefully or accidentally ) by making it no longer work with a large handful of older games. That sanfu in combination with a more bloated UI, forced LogMeIn account, and a splattering of useless features made it obsolete within a few months. It was the fastest rise and fall of a piece of softw…
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on “LogMeIn Acquired by Private Equity”Submitted Show HN: Native Analytics (work in progress) as a story · 19 points
HN discussionYou can find a script home page at http://swapped.cc/#!/iip However, I had to manually enable script on https://news.ycombinator.com/* since it is enabled only on http by default.
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on “Ask HN: Can we please slow down the stories about Edward Snowden?”Submitted Show HN: Pinned tweets (an idea) as a story · 16 points
HN discussionYou don't actually seem to be using the logo anywhere, though. On your site you write that "I had (have) plans to write an Instant Messenger client with proper support for privacy. This was the logo concept for the project"[1], but this project does not actually seem to exist (at least not in any public manner). As such, why not just leave the logo of Tox in peace? Especially since it's a FOSS project with noble goa…
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on “Tox: secure messaging for everyone”Submitted Resubscribe as a story · 10 points
HN discussionAlex Pankratov, the developer of Hamachi, discusses his approach here: https://swapped.cc/#!/hamachi
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on “Comcast: Simulating shitty network connections so you can build better systems”Submitted Font Smoothing Detection in Browsers as a story · 9 points
HN discussionAdd UDP relays and TCP hole punching and it'll finally be a better take on Hamachi :) https://swapped.cc/hamachi
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on “How Tailscale Works”Submitted On Backups as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHave a look at http://swapped.cc/font-smoothing to see what you are getting into with webfonts.
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on “Show HN: I made a Web-based Todo App - used: CSS3 3D transforms, Node.js, love”Submitted Hamachi: The virtual private networking system as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou don't need to reinvent TCP. You can simply put TCP over UDP. Works like magic :) TCP hole punching works just fine in practice, but it's certainly a part of the "long tail" of empirical hacks that allow bumping NAT traversal rates into 95+% range. Detecting NATs that decrement ports is another. Ports that are incremented/decremented by more than 1 is yet another. And there's also UPnP that gives you another perc…
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on “The State of NAT Traversal”Submitted Selectivity – hide unwanted HN stories from main page as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThough not what it's designed for, halloc[1] Is similar to what you are talking about; if each function manually allocated its locals with halloc, and used the parent function as the parent allocator, then you would get an unbroken tree, and would free all the children upon returning from the function that had called setjmp(). [1] http://swapped.cc/#!/halloc
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on “Memory management in C programs”Submitted Swapped: font smoothing project as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPS. Since we are showing things... I also ended up writing a screen-to-gif recorder to make the gifs for the Nullboard's readme. I always assumed this was a rather involved matter, but it was a surprisingly simple thing to do. Just GetDC() + BitBlt() in a loop + some nuances. It looks something like this - https://swapped.cc/tmp/giffer-screencap.gif The release "page" is over at - https://gist.github.com/apankrat/14…
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on “Show HN: Nullboard – Simple, light, locally-stored to-do lists”Submitted Yafe – Yet Another Fractal Explorer [2011] as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI rebuilt my own site - http://swapped.cc - not exactly "in March" though... it took closer to 9 months :)
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on “Ask HN: What did you build in March?”Submitted Is a follower as a story · 1 points
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