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Antoine Amarilli
Personal blog · a3nm.net/blog · on HN as a3_nmsecurityprogrammingmath
Antoine Amarilli's personal blog at a3nm.net covers security, programming and math. Since 2010, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 51 times, most often “What's wrong with academia?”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters cite Antoine Amarilli's posts on deduplication attacks in Dropship, a TypeMatrix keyboard review, and reproducibility in research. The comments discuss those topics rather than praising the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Antoine Amarilli's website
Most-linked posts?
- What's wrong with academia?4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-08-24
- Migrating from Cgit to Stagit (2018)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-05
- Self-hosted, server side MathJax using Node and Docker2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-02-23
What Hacker News says?
https://a3nm.net/blog Ridiculously infrequent (but there's RSS of course, so who cares). Random postings about stuff that interests me (software, theoretical computer science and research, language). The blog is purely static with no Javascript or cookies or ads or analytics of any kind. Why you should read it: I don't know, I'm not really looking for an audience :) but I do think I qualify as an actual human being
Comment linking /blog
on “Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?”Submitted Can you be sure to clear a line at Tetris? as a story · 185 points
HN discussionThe distinction is subtle, because there is a common dark pattern where websites try to trick you into creating an account to access public content, even though you don't actually need to. I'm thinking of Dropbox, which does this when you try to access a link that someone shared with you by email https://a3nm.net/share/2016-12-07_548165.png This is a dark pattern because it's trying to make me believe that I should…
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on “Dark Patterns – User Interfaces Designed to Trick People [video]”Submitted Open Problems in Theoretical Computer Science as a story · 78 points
HN discussionIt's not really related but it made me think of a friend's PhD thesis on uncertain data. If the subject interests you, be sure to checkout the summary of his (impressive) work: http://a3nm.net/blog/phd_summary.html .
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on “Introducing Guesstimate, a Spreadsheet for Things That Aren’t Certain”Submitted Summarizing my PhD Research on Uncertain Data as a story · 24 points
HN discussionThis looks nice, with a much more legible syntax than LaTeX. I'd love to use this, e.g., on my blog. The reasons why I won't: - No server-side rendering. I don't want to burden my reader's browser with Javascript. (With MathJax, you can do it server-side, I explained how here: https://a3nm.net/blog/selfhost_mathjax.html ) - The project looks dead: https://github.com/asciimath/asciimathml/pulse/monthly
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on “AsciiMath – An easy-to-write markup language for mathematics”Submitted The absurdity of software patents: a proof by example as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSome people already did a good job at making libs and tools to easily interact with IRC: libircclient [1] and the irctk [2] wrapper around it comes to mind. Using irctk it's remarkably easy to write an IRC bot that does whatever you want. [1] http://www.ulduzsoft.com/libircclient/ [2] https://a3nm.net/blog/irctk.html
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on “IRC turns thirty”Submitted Migrating from Cgit to Stagit (2018) as a story · 17 points
HN discussionFor mutt users, a great new feature in this release (technically, in mutt 1.5.24) is crypt_opportunistic_encrypt, which allows you to encrypt your messages with GPG automatically whenever the recipients also support GPG. See the manual http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/#crypt-opportunistic-encrypt and I also wrote a blogpost with some more details https://a3nm.net/blog/mutt_crypt_opportunistic_encrypt.html
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on “Mutt 1.6”Submitted Summarizing my PhD research on Uncertain Data as a story · 7 points
HN discussionIt is saddening to see so much pessimism in the thread. Tight regulations on reproducibility are the first thing academia needs. Academia is a rat race with so much dishonesty and optimizing for measure (citation count etc..) these days. I have seen too many of professors producing low quality papers for the sake of producing papers - which creates a lot of noise, and a cargo cult PhD culture. Without reproducibilit…
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on “Why Can't I Reproduce Their Results?”Submitted irctk: a versatile command-line toolkit for IRC as a story · 5 points
HN discussionYes, but they are only exchanging a constant amount of information to fool the server challenge, whereas we could hope to do better if the server builds challenges which use information that he knows the client has. For some reason, this inspired me to write a blog post: http://a3nm.net/blog/deduplication_attacks.html and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2489594
Comment linking /blog/deduplication_attacks.html
on “Dropship — successor to torrents?”Submitted Identify browser in SVG as a story · 4 points
HN discussionA friend of mine recently tried out Wayland and swaywm and blogged about it here: https://a3nm.net/blog/wayland.html . It might interest you :).
Comment linking /blog/wayland.html
on “Adding Glue to a Desktop Environment”Submitted Optimizing text entry on mobile phone keypads as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThanks a lot! I think you understood the problem correctly, I checked your argument and it seems correct to me, see https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/20245/subset-of... We have no specific plans for this result but it's always comforting to have an answer after all and know that it's in P. Plus this way I learnt about the existence of submodular functions. :) List updated ( http://a3nm.net/work/research/q…
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on “Open Problems in Theoretical Computer Science”Submitted What's Wrong with Academia? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAuthor here, thanks for the comments! I added two problems to http://a3nm.net/work/research/questions/#well-known-conjectu... following ideas here.
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on “Open Problems in Theoretical Computer Science”Submitted What Is Wrong with Academia? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionReminds me of irctk: https://a3nm.net/blog/irctk.html
Comment linking /blog/irctk.html
on “Ircpipe – Netcat for IRC”Submitted Trying btrfs and giving up for now as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe number of articles is a terrible metric of the quantity of content of a Wikipedia. A far better way to measure this is to look at the size of the data dumps of http://download.wikimedia.org (compressed so as to normalize differences in information density between languages). (Shameless plug: I tried to do that three years ago http://a3nm.net/blog/wikimedia_projects_by_size.html -- it could probably be done again…
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on “Sweden just claimed the world’s second-largest Wikipedia”Submitted Self-hosted, server side MathJax using Node and Docker as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI wanted to buy it until I read this: http://a3nm.net/blog/typematrix_review.html Dvorak is cool, but you don't need typematrix to feel its benefits. I use normal keyboards to type dvorak, all you have to do is to change the keyboard layout.
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on “Kung Fu Typing - Keyboard Finger Movement Diagrams”Submitted It's a big world after all: Computing the diameter of the flights graph as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSimilar project of mine, but which is "blogging using only git" rather than "via git": http://gitorious.org/fugitive Example blogs: http://shebang.ws/ , http://a3nm.net/blog/ , http://vlog.antonin.delpeuch.eu/ :-).
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on “Show HN: Review my project: Git Code Press, blogging via git”Submitted Scientific paper submission checklist as a story · 3 points
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