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Devine Lu Linvega
Personal blog · 100r.coprogrammingdesign
Devine Lu Linvega writes Hundred Rabbits, a personal blog at 100r.co about programming and design. Since 2019, 168 different Hacker News readers have linked it 227 times, most often “Uxn”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 4 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link the Hundred Rabbits site for the collective's off-grid sailing life and their projects like uxn and ORCA; most comments link it without judging the writing.
- Recommended for · 4 comments
- Sail log 'very poignant'; 'treasure trove' to explore; 'worth taking a look at'; reading for end-of-times topics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Hundred Rabbits is a software studio aboard a sailboat.
Most-linked posts?
- Uxn36 people · 39 mentions · first linked 2021-05-17
- Orca23 people · 23 mentions · first linked 2020-09-22
- Weathering Software Winter (2022)16 people · 18 mentions · first linked 2023-01-02
- Hundred Rabbits – Low-tech living while sailing the world13 people · 14 mentions · first linked 2020-06-02
- Working Off-Grid Efficiently11 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2021-01-11
- /9 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2019-01-19
- Apocalyptic events should mean action and structural reform, not individualism7 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2020-03-19
- Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2020-03-23
- Computing and Sustainability6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2023-10-27
- /5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-07-06
What Hacker News says?
There wasn't a single place I asserted that uxn is specifically novel or unprecedented. In fact, Devine's own presentation[0] about uxn specifically cites Wirth and Oberon, among countless other inspirations and examples. I'm saying it's awesome, accessible, simple and open. I don't need to "develop more tolerance for differing opinions" - I have no problem with them and am completely open to them, even from people…
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on “Niklaus Wirth has died”Submitted Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech as a story · 780 points
HN discussionyou don't get to dictate who does or doesn't get recognized for creating awesome works that influence and inspire others. take your persistent negativity elsewhere. btw, uxn is absolutely the exemplification of "software built for humans to understand" and simplicity. I mean... > the resulting programs are succinct and translate well to pen & paper computing. > to make any one program available on a new platform, th…
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on “Niklaus Wirth has died”Submitted Uxn as a story · 450 points
HN discussionyou should check out uxntal https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/uxntal.html https://100r.co/site/computing_and_sustainability.html
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on “We are destroying software”Submitted Ronin – A Lisp-based image processing tool as a story · 366 points
HN discussionFor the last three years, Rekka Bellum and Devine Lu Linvega have sailed the Pacific Ocean on Pino, a sailboat turned mobile studio, making videogames, art, and music with their own homegrown software. Off-grid for long stretcheS they’ve built a custom OS for their needs: https://100r.co/site/uxn.html Talk: https://youtu.be/BW32yUEymvU?si=YGsc3A3oAzowKbRU
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on “Engineering for Slow Internet”Submitted Working Off-Grid Efficiently as a story · 279 points
HN discussionHis documentary Hold Fast about being at sea is interesting to watch: https://vimeo.com/15351476 The 100Rabbits folks are tech people who live at sea: https://100r.co/
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on “New Year, New CEO”Submitted Hundred Rabbits – Low-tech living while sailing the world as a story · 250 points
HN discussion- Elegance: Articulating the value of absence. https://100r.co/site/computing_and_sustainability.html
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on “Software development topics I've changed my mind on”Submitted Orca – esoteric programming language, designed to create procedural sequencers as a story · 249 points
HN discussionLately, I've been reading through the "100 Rabbits" folks stuff: https://100r.co/site/home.html https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/index.html It's fascinating to see how dependent modern tech is on a constant, or at least semi-regular, internet connection for tokens, etc., and how that "model" fails completely on the open ocean.
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on “Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?”Submitted Off the Grid as a story · 244 points
HN discussion> from running out of food According to their page they can store up to 4 months of provisions > Fully-geared, stocked with provisions for 4 months (food & water) Pino weighs 7484,274 kg (16,500 lbs)【7 484 kg】, or 8.25 tons. https://100r.co/site/pino.html
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on “Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech”Submitted uxn: a portable 8-bit virtual computer as a story · 230 points
HN discussionWhy do you have "rich people" in quotes? They live in a 1982 sailboat as their primary residence . They use older hardware and are trying to be sustainable. Does this look like "rich people" to you? https://100r.co/media/content/travel/hathayim14.jpg There are definitely rich people that live on $500,000 boats and sail the world. 100R doesn't appear to be that? I'm pretty sure they've actually decided "not to make a…
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on “Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech”Submitted Weathering Software Winter (2022) as a story · 137 points
HN discussionJava is seemingly the first thing they considered[1], but it was too fragmented and complicated for their purely pragmatic usecase. [1] https://100r.co/site/weathering_software_winter.html
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on “Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech”Submitted North Pacific Logbook as a story · 96 points
HN discussionIn this respect, their page for hacking baguettes by sun&sea is my personal favourite https://100r.co/site/solar_cooking_experiment.html 100Rabbits is like the coming true of Grothendieck's 1972 permatech lecture given at CERN* https://github.com/Lapin0t/grothendieck-cern >"I think that agriculture, stockbreeding, decentralized energy production, medicine of a certain kind, very different from the medicine that prev…
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on “Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech”Submitted Internet in Paradise (2006) as a story · 90 points
HN discussionhttps://100r.co/site/princess_louisa_inlet.html "PLI is truly a picturesque place, nestled between extraordinarily large mountains and cliffs, blessed with clear waters and lush forests. The waters in the inlet are very calm, it is well-shielded. Any boat wakes travel far thoughout the inlet, from wall to wall, and take a long while to subside. If motoring in this inlet, go slow." Wow. Surprised to see one of my fav…
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on “Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech”Submitted Gimballed Stove as a story · 40 points
HN discussionI meant to say "permacomputing": https://permacomputing.net/ http://collapseos.org/why.html https://100r.co/site/weathering_software_winter.html
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on “Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech”Submitted Busy Doing Nothing as a story · 26 points
HN discussionFrom their mission statement ( https://100r.co/site/mission.html ): > Diversity is important in nearly all aspects, whether it's with computers, or with life itself. A polyculture of tools and systems distributes the surface of attack and creates resilience. Viruses can attack a single crop, or a single computer architecture. The more services, or resources are centralized, the more power is concentrated into fewer…
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on “Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech”Submitted Cooking using solar evacuated tubes as a story · 21 points
HN discussionIf anyone is interested further, I would highly recommend one of Devine’s latest talks, from Strange Loop: https://100r.co/site/computing_and_sustainability.html Transcribed and video format. Among other things, they came into computing from a bit of a different direction and ended up building tools and a platform that I’m betting 90% of people in the industry would revere in awe as things beyond their understanding…
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on “Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech”Submitted Uxn: Small permacomputing VM designed for easy implementability as a story · 14 points
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