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ynnivon Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

i'm building a common lisp operating system capable of diverse double compilation and booting a raspberry pi.

well, claude is: https://modus-lisp.github.io

ynnivon Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs

you can't wave your hands, say "zero knowledge", and be private. this is too little information to be useful

ynnivon Creepy Crawlies

sounds right to me. ai will shred it

ynnivon Creepy Crawlies

this is an increasingly common situation. it goes something like:

  - i have a free, niche resource
  - it becomes too popular
  - i make it more efficient
  - now it's really popular, and people are "abusing" it
  - let's make them proof-of-work
  - ... and proof-of-work harder
  - but now "legitimate" users can't use it
  - ???

the core problem is that the average person uses a mobile device where work is expensive, and the "attackers" use servers where work is cheap. if you require expensive proof-of-work, next comes a cheap-work-as-a-service where inefficient mobile devices pay small amounts of money to get efficient servers to complete their work for them. now everyone has an interest in making their usage efficient, but there's still an obvious inefficiency in the system: why have people pay unknown 3rd parties to burn cpu cycles to reduce costs for a free service, when you could just have people make small payments that cover the service's costs?

which is called l402/x402. micropayments' day has come

ynnivon A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp

i've spent decades reading and writing code. i just want something that works

ynnivon A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp

I have a work-in-progress called Modus. 100% written by Claude, so take that however you will. The current release boots on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. The next release (unreleased in the pipe for ~ months) is standard Common Lisp on bare aarch64 (pi) and x64 (qemu for now), with linux aarch64 and x64 command line interfaces à la sbcl.

https://github.com/modus-lisp/modus

Since you can't use an OS by itself, I've rounded out the Common Lisp environment with portable ssh client and server, web browser, and a bitcoin node. Framebuffer with VNC in the pipe

ynnivon Show HN: Yamanote.fun – A complete soundscape for Tokyo's Yamanote line

+1 Having a travel time speed of [∞, realtime] would make this installation art

ynnivon CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps

damn, that's an unintentionally amazing advertisement for comaps. downloading now! X-D

ynnivon Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down

nostr

ynnivon NTSB Preliminary Report – UPS Boeing MD-11F Crash [pdf]

it would seem so. so the question is why they would maintain an air gap for a safety report

ynnivon NTSB Preliminary Report – UPS Boeing MD-11F Crash [pdf]

pretty weird...

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ynnivon Who needs Graphviz when you can build it yourself?

eclipse also does better than dot, but it's useful to notice that graphviz never dies

https://github.com/eclipse-elk/elk

ynnivon The Majority AI View

personally i find llms to be absurdly capable, and people are just using them wrong

ynnivon That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus

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ynnivon Imperial Tyranny, Korean Humiliation

i'm in atlanta. i used google. it took five seconds

ynnivon Imperial Tyranny, Korean Humiliation

try google. it took 5 seconds

ynnivon Imperial Tyranny, Korean Humiliation

a leaked document shows that at least one person was recognized to have the appropriate visa and was coerced into leaving "voluntarily". no details on how prevalent this was have been released

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/10/hyundai-fact...

ynnivon Human writers have always used the em dash

surrounded by spaces... right?

ynnivon TrackWeight: Turn your MacBook's trackpad into a digital weighing scale

Finally some hacker news

ynnivon Devstral

https://github.com/block/goose

ynnivon Wikipedia's Most Translated Articles

  Dog
  Cat
  Jesus

ynnivon Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative

point eight bee pee ess, said no one ever. Also too much ADR to censor words that didn't need to be censored

ynnivon Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative

"There isn't a government on this planet that wouldn't kill us all for that thing"

ynnivon Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative

Once you accept that a movie isn't a documentary, Hackers is a lot of fun. The editor of 2600 consulted on it (and lent his nym)

ynnivon I turned a 40 year old Apple Mouse into a speech to text button

Who sees an original mouse and thinks "speech recognition" without this classic context?

ynnivon MCP server for Ghidra

Only formally proven systems will be secure

ynnivon Show HN: LLMs Playing Mafia games – See them lie, deceive, and reason

You could try issuing two prompts: one to "think", and another to "say to the group". Not as nice as having a model that can properly format its response, but you'll get more accurate results.

ynnivon Show HN: LLMs Playing Mafia games – See them lie, deceive, and reason

This is a fantastic idea! Reading through one of the games I see:

- players are named based on their model, which can be ambiguous

- some model responses are being cut short

- some models seem to be thinking out loud, or at least not separating their chain of thought from what they tell the group

ynnivon DeepSeek-R1-671B-Q4_K_M with 1 or 2 Arc A770 on Xeon

It better be! AMD @ $2k: https://digitalspaceport.com/how-to-run-deepseek-r1-671b-ful...

ynnivon Living in your programming environment [pdf]

This is excellent