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j3s.sh
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j3s.sh is a personal blog at j3s.sh about programming, systems and philosophy. Since 2022, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 43 times, most often “My website is one binary”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Personal blog of raw-text, ASCII-styled pages on self-hosting, single-binary websites, and tech-culture rants. HN readers link it for its unfussy design and for posts that comments cite on related topics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- My website is one binary5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-04-06
- Recover lost text by coredumping Firefox3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-10-21
- Shell tip: print JSON with printf3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-10-07
- Drones run Linux: free software isn't enough2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-09-16
- Using discord is morally lazy2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-07
- “Attention assault” on Fandom2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-17
- Vore: A new RSS feed reader2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-14
- Blogs rot. Wikis wait2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-02
What Hacker News says?
oop, my bad. it got oomkilled somehow - should be back up now :3 original post is at https://j3s.sh/thought/stop-using-fandom.html
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on “Helping wikis move away from Fandom”Submitted “Attention assault” on Fandom as a story · 401 points
HN discussionRek drew the pufferfish on my website & i love it to death https://j3s.sh
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on “Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech”Submitted My website is one binary as a story · 197 points
HN discussionhttps://j3s.sh it currently runs on https://capsul.org it's powered entirely by golang :D i recently wrote a (long-winded) thought post about this: https://j3s.sh/thought/my-website-is-one-binary.html
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted Blogs rot. Wikis wait as a story · 196 points
HN discussion> GPL is the Best License imho, you shouldn't care whether companies make money from your code. licenses won't stop them - take a look at Linux. if your whole deal is to stop companies from using your code for free, consider never releasing the source code at all. :shrug: > Open source is becoming a corporate-only game. It’s used as a weapon between battling tech companies. i wrote a little bit about this: https://j…
Comment linking /thought/drones-run-linux-free-software-isnt-enough.html
on “Open Source Bait and Switch”Submitted Trainwreck Design as a story · 148 points
HN discussionI think it's an intentional aesthetic choice[0]. Hyperlinks would be convenient, but something about the raw text / ascii art vibe makes me happy everytime I read a blog post from j3s even if it doesn't have the conveniences of the modern web. [0] https://j3s.sh/about.html
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on “Trainwreck Design”Submitted My deployment platform is a shell script as a story · 130 points
HN discussionWell, that would make it quite an exotic watch: https://j3s.sh/static/unnamed-puffy.png
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on “My deployment platform is a shell script”Submitted Fail2ban Sucks (2020) as a story · 98 points
HN discussionit's still in the works, but here's the plan: - written in golang, one binary - custom markup lang - very short urls ( https://j3s.sh/$pagename ) - pages are saved as text-files-written-to-disk with git autocommits (similar to mycorrhiza[0]) - "blocks" that process parts of pages differently - similar to edna[1] - pages editable via web interface (rudimentary phone support) - autolinks between pages - simple picture…
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on “My website is one binary (2022)”Submitted .io Domains Considered Harmful as a story · 91 points
HN discussionFrom one of these user's most recent posts here https://j3s.sh/thought/blogs-rot-wikis-wait.html : p.s. i'm working on a new wiki to replace my website with - something new, from the ground up. git.j3s.sh/abyss - stay tuned I wonder if they'll still be using a similar approach for the new site.
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on “My website is one binary (2022)”Submitted My website is one binary (2022) as a story · 56 points
HN discussionThe author's website is refreshing in the current age of blogspam SEO optimization. Worth a glance and they sound friendly! Even though there is the suspiciously consistent scatalogical theme.. https://j3s.sh/
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on “Poop.is – A Crappy Link Shortener”Submitted There is beauty in teh minimalism of email as a story · 9 points
HN discussioni read ted's manifesto awhile back and wrote a review about it: https://j3s.sh/review/industrial-society-and-its-future.html overall i was pretty disappointed. ted's writing wasn't very good at all & his arguments did not convince me. i was surprised because of his writing seems to be universally praised in tech circles. in my opinion it isn't worth reading. it's philosophical cosplay.
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on “Ted Kaczynski, ‘Unabomber’ Who Attacked Modern Life, Dies at 81”Submitted Drones run Linux: free software isn't enough as a story · 5 points
HN discussionmy in-progress new wiki: https://abyss.fish planning on flipping https://j3s.sh over to it soon
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Recover lost text by coredumping Firefox as a story · 4 points
HN discussionvery true, and thank you for pointing this out. this is an intentional design decision - you can see me rationale here: https://j3s.sh/thought/storing-passwords-with-age.html it boils down to exactly what you noted - disk access is game over in most cases anyways, and i like the convenience of plaintext on the disk. i will be exploring the yubikey model that filippo recently outlined though https://words.filippo.io/…
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on “Pa – a simple password manager based on age”Submitted My website is one binary as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://j3s.sh/thought/drones-run-linux-free-software-isnt-e...
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on “Meta disbanded its Responsible AI team”Submitted .io Domains Considered Harmful as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe person doesn’t even like Discord: https://j3s.sh/thought/using-discord-is-morally-lazy.html So it seems weird to publish a rant about Discord Nitro.
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on “I will never participate in weird internet caste systems”Submitted Write Posix Shell as a story · 3 points
HN discussionPresumably following on from recent posts around the web: https://j3s.sh/thought/my-website-is-one-binary.html (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30937515 ) and (inspired by the above) https://www.andreinc.net/2022/04/10/a-blog-that-is-a-single-... (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31081049 )
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on “The three line single binary compiler free blog”Submitted Recover lost text by coredumping Firefox as a story · 2 points
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