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jxself.org is a personal blog at jxself.org about politics, security and culture. Since 2015, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 40 times, most often “Evacuating the Titanic”. 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
HN readers cite jxself.org for its Skein and BLAKE2 hash implementation work, a post on DRM and free culture, and its git hosting. Comments link these as sources rather than judging them.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Evacuating the Titanic2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-12-24
What Hacker News says?
Ah yes? https://jxself.org/git/?p=linux-libre-firmware.git;a=tree
Comment linking /git/?p=linux-libre-firmware.git;a=tree
on “Nvidia releases open-source GPU kernel modules”Submitted Help Us Save Wifi as a story · 23 points
HN discussionAlso, ath9k as a company. More libre fw: https://jxself.org/git/?p=linux-libre-firmware.git;a=tree People stop talking out of his ass.
Comment linking /git/?p=linux-libre-firmware.git;a=tree
on “Nvidia releases open-source GPU kernel modules”Submitted Stop Killing Games as a story · 3 points
HN discussionCheck Androwish for something being able to run under Android and PC. A quick example: https://jxself.org/git/?p=inform.git;a=summary You can create an APK if you head to the AndroWish home page and read the instructions.
Comment linking /git/?p=inform.git;a=summary
on “Visual Basic 6 rebuilt in C# – complete with form designer and IDE in browser”Submitted I Read the Terms of Service for My Smart TV and Now I Sleep with One Eye Open as a story · 3 points
HN discussionDusks OS badly needs a ZMachine interpreter. The number of software running on DuskOS would skyrocket. From a Tetris implementation to tons of libre IF (and games) such as SpiritWrak, All Thing Devours, Reversi, ... https://jxself.org/git/
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on “Uxn”Submitted Coiled and Unbothered as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOne of the Linux-Libre maintainers has a good chunk of free as in freedom libre text adventure games. https://jxself.org/git/
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on “Ask HN: Favourite open source game?”Submitted Breaking Down Barriers: How Proprietary Software Controls You as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAutotools are complex, yes, but I've seen simple setups. Here's a good start to compile Inform. And, yes, inform could be surely compiled with a literal 'cc -o inform src/*.c' but my point stands. https://jxself.org/git/?p=inform.git;a=summary
Comment linking /git/?p=inform.git;a=summary
on “A mistake that killed Japan's software industry? (2023)”Submitted Star Trek Addressed the Issue of Racism as a story · 2 points
HN discussionDitto, I loved devours too, and it's a libre game: https://jxself.org/git/devours.git Spiritwrak it's Zorkian but libre licensed unlike Zork [1-3] / Dungeon. And, OFC, Emacs has Inform-mode, a helper for Inform6 and Inform6-lib.
Comment linking /git/devours.git
on “Lisp: Icing or Cake?”Submitted Evacuating the Titanic as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm still trying to fix Malyon from Emacs, as it hangs on this free adventure (Spiritwrak) https://jxself.org/git/?p=spiritwrak.git;a=summary You can get inform6 from the same page of the repos, and informlib by cloning spiritwrak with git clone --recursive https://jxself.org/git/?p=spiritwrak.git;a=summary
Comment linking /git/?p=spiritwrak.git;a=summary
on “Common Lisp implementation of the Forth 2012 Standard”Submitted Shifting the Trap as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSupposedly. So far, I haven't found a software implementation that is faster than MD5. However, I have found plenty of Skein software implementations that come close to meeting the speed specification. See http://ae7.st/p/5px . I'm using the reference code at https://github.com/BLAKE2/BLAKE2 for blake2, and https://jxself.org/git/?p=skeinsum.git for skein.
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on “SHA-3 Standard [pdf]”Submitted Worldwide Public Domain Dedication (WPDD) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionOn IntelME/AMD PSP: https://jxself.org/titanic.shtml He did it well. On "security", the author loves more to own his code/adata than anything. as did the PDP10/ITS hackers.
Comment linking /titanic.shtml
on “Spaghettifying DRAM”With Inform7 targeting the ZMachine VM you can literally say that =). Inform6 it's a 'small' OOP language where with the English library the syntax it's dumber than VB6, Lua or anything else. Basically the objects and logic describe themselves as a dumbed down config file. You create a meta-object for rooms and light, and then copy and paste to create rooms, containers and tools based on atributes (again as if it we…
Comment linking /git/informlib.git
on “Ti-84 Evo”If you want to create a Z-Machine game, get Inform6 and Inform6 lib among the Inform Beginner's Guide to learn how to create a basic adventure: git clone https://jxself.org/git/inform git clone https://jxself.org/git/informlib cd inform ; cc -o inform src/*.c sudo cp inform /usr/local/bin ; cd .. Spiritwrak: git clone --recursive https://jxself.org/git/spiritwrak cd spiritwrak; sh build.sh ; cd .. Snowed In (incompl…
Comment linking /git/homeland
on “How to Fit a Large Program into a Small Machine (Zork, Z-Machine, ZIL) (1999)”- Anchorhead. "anchor.z8". Not libre software, but cool. And, one day, it might be. You need a Z-Machine interpreter, such as Frotz. - Dungeon. That's Zork I-III, condensed. More pure to the original adventures than the Infocom's further changes. 70% of chances of being libre software in a very close future, few months of years. - Spiritwrak. A Zorkian adventure, but libre software. Good to play. - Spider and Web. "…
Comment linking /git/devours
on “Ask HN: Great text based games to play?”There's also the free culture movement, which generally believes all creative works should be free, not just software. There are many people who would advocate for free software and not free culture, but jxself has also written in support of free culture: https://jxself.org/drm_and_free_culture.shtml That post is from 15 years ago, so of course he could have changed his views since then (but I don't see any evidence…
Comment linking /drm_and_free_culture.shtml
on “Stop Killing Games”yt-dlp launches propietary software: https://jxself.org/shifting-the-trap.shtml You can run a BF and, soon, subleq.
Comment linking /shifting-the-trap.shtml
on “Yt-dlp – [Announcement] Bun support is now limited and deprecated”Yes, very easy to grasp and games will be much lighter than Inform7. Tads it's propietary even if the interpreters are free. Inform6 has the whole stack (even free documentation too), from Inform Beginner's Guide to these, where you have libre games for Inform6 and some free as in freedom related documentation of Inform6 internals. https://jxself.org/git/
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on “The Visible Zorker: Zork 1”Not basic, but there were Super Star Trek (Python) https://jxself.org/git/?p=super-star-trek.git;a=summary and and Ztrek (Z-Machine, the same one as Infoco games) https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=6nwxvawygc1mm1y4 (Use frotz or gargoyle to play it offline). On ZTrek, I translated it into Spanish. If anyone wants it to tune up its Spanish skills...
Comment linking /git/?p=super-star-trek.git;a=summary
on “Basic Star Trek Games”yt-dlp's jsinterp.py https://jxself.org/compiling-the-trap.shtml I've got subleq+eforth ( https://github.com/howerj/muxleq ) running in JS which is dead simple to do. No input but I could output ASCII mapping values to an array. https://esolangs.org/wiki/Subleq So, yes. yt-dlp runs propietary Youtube JS code defying the original purpose.
Comment linking /compiling-the-trap.shtml
on “Bytecode VMs in surprising places (2024)”Can this compile these games? https://jxself.org/git/supernova.git https://jxself.org/git/beyond-the-titanic.git
Comment linking /git/beyond-the-titanic.git
on “Blaise – A modern self-hosting zero-legacy Object Pascal compiler targeting QBE”Edit Dungeon/Zorks' Z-machine source code (zdungeon) to define new verbs. http://www.penguincentral.com/retrocomputing/zdungeon/ Inform6+Inform6 lib: http://jxself.org/git/inform http://jxself.org/git/informlib Inform's Begginer's Guide: https://rinform.org/docs/IBG.pdf The advanced one, for advanced Inform programmers: https://inform-fiction.org/manual/DM4.pdf EDIT: I found no source for the ZDungeon port of it, bu…
Comment linking /git/informlib
on “Zarf Updates: A treasury of Zork maps”Nice, but for free as in freedom games, (and more complex ones) git check-out some from https://jxself.org/git/ . I suggest Spiritwrak for a Zorkian adventure, and All Thing Devours for a crazy time traveling puzzle. You can compile the required inform6 compiler (cc -o inform src/*.c; mv inform /usr/local/bin) and inform-lib with ease from that. When building some game with build.sh, if it fails, run "git submodule…
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on “Elite for Emacs”
