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Neuigkeiten von Zwillingssterns Weltenwald
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Neuigkeiten von Zwillingssterns Weltenwald is a personal blog at draketo.de about programming, philosophy and writing. Since 2011, 59 different Hacker News readers have linked it 114 times, most often “Wisp: Whitespace to Lisp”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 0 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Arne Babenhauserheide's posts as background on Freenet's censorship-resistant communication and moderation, on Wisp (Python-like syntax for Scheme), and on Mercurial, git and licensing.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Wisp: Whitespace to Lisp9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2021-04-07
- Going from Python to Guile Scheme7 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2016-03-17
- /english/wisp5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2017-01-04
- Wisp: Whitespace to Lisp2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-03-17
- /proj/wisp/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-01-31
- /light/english/wisp-lisp-indentation-preprocessor2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-05-21
- Basic questions and answers for GNU Guile from the perspective of a Pythonista2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-12-27
- Comparing long term performance of git vs hg2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-05-10
- Going from Python to Guile Scheme2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-12-18
- Volatile Infrastructure is worse than volatile applications2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-06
What Hacker News says?
> It surprised me that nothing like this seems to exist already in the decentralization community. There was a GSoC project in 2013 which did exactly this, using Freenet as decentralized storage backend with a Web of Trust for Spam resistant and updatable identities (note that in the gittorrent scheme once someone claimed a username, that username will stick there forever). It works and compared to GitTorrent it add…
Comment linking /english/freenet/real-life-infocalypse
on “GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub”Submitted Wisp: Whitespace to Lisp as a story · 82 points
HN discussionYou could upload it to Freenet, then there won’t even be a record what was up- and downloaded by whom: No one will have the metadata. Info: http://www.draketo.de/light/english/freenet/effortless-passw... Install: https://freenetproject.org
Comment linking /light/english/freenet/effortless-password-protected-sharing-files
on “Firefox Send: Private, Encrypted File Sharing”Submitted Guile 3.0.10 now ships with support for parens-optional syntax (wisp) as a story · 37 points
HN discussionI don't have the dotfile up anywhere, but I can run you through the basics really quickly: * SPC-l gives you the layouts micro-state, which allows you to do all of this. First, set up your layout however you'd like, then open up the micro-state and run the save-as command (SPC-l-S) and that will allow you to save the layout to a layouts file somewhere deep in the bowels of Spacemacs. * When you're ready to use your…
Comment linking /light/english/free-software/el-kanban-org-table
on “Vim 8.0 released”Submitted How GNU Guile is 10x better (2021) as a story · 22 points
HN discussionThey could take an approach similar to how Freenet does dynamic things. See here for details: http://draketo.de/light/english/freenet/communication-primit... Freenet has a similar immutable datastore but chat, microblogging, etc have been built on it.
Comment linking /light/english/freenet/communication-primitives-2-discovery
on “Neocities is implementing IPFS – distributed, permanent web”Submitted Freenet: The forgotten cryptopunk paradise as a story · 13 points
HN discussionPreventing noble actors from doing aggressive marketing causes them to stay small. Marketing is required to get market share nowadays. If the marketing causes people to find you to whom your are the better choice, then it is good marketing ⇒ https://www.draketo.de/anderes/honest-marketing
Comment linking /anderes/honest-marketing
on “DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking Method in Chrome”Submitted Basic questions and answers for GNU Guile from the perspective of a Pythonista as a story · 10 points
HN discussionAnd then you find out, whether your moderation works. Point in case: On Freenet it does. But I had to close down my youtube comments on my channel completely when they discovered my youtube-Account. Because it’s the clearnet where moderation sucks. Its actually scaling, fully decentralized moderation system is how Freenet keeps communication friendly with actual pseudonymity and privacy protection: https://www.drake…
Comment linking /english/freenet/friendly-communication-with-anonymity
on “Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant communication”Submitted “Wisp allows people to see code how Lispers perceive it.” as a story · 9 points
HN discussionIt’s not just the education system. It’s our structures of information that are based on engagement (to drive ad-revenue) instead of value to the reader. And this is something Freenet actually solves to some degree. Because it had to. This is why in Freenet we know the Zen of Tolerance: https://www.draketo.de/politik/random-babcom#the-zen-of-tole... - You are entitled to voice your opinion. - You are not entitled to…
Comment linking /politik/random-babcom
on “Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant communication”Submitted DVCS in the Darknet. Decentralized code repository over Freenet as a story · 9 points
HN discussionIn addition to what doublec described: I use Freenet for confidential communication with friends. Encrypted Freenet traffic provides a cover which not only masks when we talk and what we talk about but also whether we talk at all. For details and how to do it, see http://www.draketo.de/english/freenet/connect-speak-freely
Comment linking /english/freenet/connect-speak-freely
on “Our 2016 Open Source Donations”Submitted How Freenet keeps communication friendly with anonymity as a story · 8 points
HN discussionDecentralized microblogging using Sone, the twitter-like system on Freenet. Freemail, the encrypted email system. FMS, the forums. I also use the distributed data store for storing data. Basically anything you'd use IPFS for but more anonymity. Here's an example of using it for the backing store for my blog: https://bluishcoder.co.nz/2015/09/14/using-freenet-for-stati... Here's a series of articles on writing dynami…
Comment linking /light/english/freenet/communication-primitives-1-files-and-sites
on “Our 2016 Open Source Donations”Submitted Wisp v1.0 released as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThe super advantage of Lisp (including Scheme): Its format for defining data is the same as for writing code, making macros a natural part of the syntax: You can change your source code just like you’d change any other list (or rather tree) data type. However all this can be represented fully without parentheses — and this is possible with Guile using a reader extension without losing any of its power. This is reali…
Comment linking /english/wisp
on “GNU Guile 2.2.0”Submitted How GNU Guile is 10x better (2021) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionAs soon as you do any copyrightable change, you have the right to declare that change GPLv3 or later and that makes the overall project GPLv3 or later. The previously existing code will still be GPLv2 or later, but you’ll have to trawl the commit history to find out what’s also available under GPLv2 or later. So it is perfectly legal to relicense under GPLv3 or later, it’s just rude: https://www.draketo.de/english/p…
Comment linking /english/politics/relicensing-gpl2plus-agpl3
on “ Non Session Manager vs New Session Manager”Submitted How to run your own GNU Hurd (in 140 letters) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSimple question: do you know enough lisp to write a self hosting interpreter in it? People talk up their language until they learn lisp then this happens: https://www.draketo.de/proj/py2guile/
Comment linking /proj/py2guile/
on “Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs – JavaScript Adaptation”Submitted The silent revolution of media compression algorithms, unnoticed by the public as a story · 5 points
HN discussionWisp provides a Python-like syntax for Scheme that gives you something very close to the above: http://draketo.de/english/wisp . (Though me and my editor don't view parentheses as an obstacle, quite the opposite...)
Comment linking /english/wisp
on “Guix: An advanced operating system”Submitted Freenet Communication Primitives: Part 2, Service Discovery and Communication as a story · 5 points
HN discussion> Speed wise it blew Bazaar and Mercurial out of the water. Benchmarks for this are hard to come by, and are for versions that are considered quite outdated now. But from what little there is, there wasn't that much of a performance difference between git and hg. For example, see this: https://www.draketo.de/proj/hg-vs-git-server/test-results.ht...
Comment linking /proj/hg-vs-git-server/test-results.html
on “Adding Mercurial support to Gitlab”Submitted Advent of Wisp Code 2021 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI would highly recommend org-mode for writing documents and papers. I'm an academic, and have been using org-mode for the last 4 years as part of the paper writing process. One of the best features of this pipeline is the fact that I can write a large chunk of the document whilst conducting research . I can jot down notes, caveats, schedule TODO items etc. and just tag the bits I want for my own reference as 'noexpo…
Comment linking /english/emacs/writing-papers-in-org-mode-acpd
on “Madoko – Write full-blown academic articles in Markdown”Submitted Wisp: Whitespace to Lisp as a story · 4 points
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