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• OpenBSD 7.8

  by rhabarba on 10/21/2025, 7:38 PM with 10 comments

• Show HN: Delout: Deleting files as a game of Breakout

  by rhabarba on 10/10/2025, 1:08 AM with 0 comments

• Future Vim Builds on Windows

  by rhabarba on 8/30/2025, 1:15 AM with 1 comments

• Microsoft Invented a Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes

  by rhabarba on 8/21/2025, 1:27 AM with 0 comments

• LOL GitHub (2018)

  by rhabarba on 8/14/2025, 10:11 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: 42links: A bookmarking server, written in Lisp

  by rhabarba on 2/11/2025, 10:50 PM with 1 comments

• by rhabarba on 1/22/2025, 10:42 AM with comments

• Show HN: DatePrefixCopy, prefixing file names with yymmdd_

  by rhabarba on 8/19/2024, 9:03 AM with 1 comments

• GNU APL 1.9 Released

  by rhabarba on 8/11/2024, 3:37 PM with 2 comments

• The Origin of Emacs in 1976

  by rhabarba on 7/24/2024, 12:49 AM with 115 comments

• Llamas with Hats: 15th Anniversary

  by rhabarba on 2/19/2024, 10:33 PM with 0 comments

• Wayland on OpenBSD

  by rhabarba on 9/3/2023, 2:01 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: Ws2markdown, a WordStar to Markdown Converter

  by rhabarba on 8/26/2023, 2:42 AM with 0 comments

• MIT TECO Emacs Version 170

  by rhabarba on 8/17/2023, 9:03 PM with 0 comments

• SciTECO 2.0.0 Was Released

  by rhabarba on 6/20/2023, 3:31 PM with 0 comments

• Harvey OS has been retired

  by rhabarba on 5/20/2023, 12:29 AM with 0 comments

• by rhabarba on 1/26/2023, 4:19 PM with comments

• MNT Reform laptops: 2022 laptops with preinstalled Plan 9

  by rhabarba on 7/20/2022, 8:54 PM with 0 comments

• Zpaqfranz: Advanced and compatible fork of ZPAQ 7.15

  by rhabarba on 7/6/2022, 7:05 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: Zb, a self-contained zip blog

  by rhabarba on 4/29/2022, 10:18 PM with 14 comments

• The three line single binary compiler free blog

  by rhabarba on 4/23/2022, 12:06 PM with 2 comments

• by rhabarba on 3/29/2022, 7:53 AM with comments

• Oracle creates new form of free Solaris

  by rhabarba on 3/4/2022, 3:14 AM with 2 comments

• Groffstudio: An IDE for Groff

  by rhabarba on 2/24/2022, 9:37 AM with 0 comments

• CR+LF Has a Long History

  by rhabarba on 2/8/2022, 1:39 AM with 65 comments

• How Covid Stole Our Privacy

  by rhabarba on 2/2/2022, 1:32 AM with 1 comments

• by rhabarba on 2/1/2022, 12:24 AM with comments

• Bias Monitor Chrome Extension

  by rhabarba on 11/7/2021, 2:25 AM with 2 comments

• We Need to Educate People About How the Internet Works

  by rhabarba on 10/24/2021, 9:35 PM with 1 comments

• SciTECO – The Interactive Text Editor and COrrector

  by rhabarba on 10/14/2021, 10:30 PM with 0 comments

• Can light gray text on light gray backgrounds please stop being a thing?

  by rhabarba on 10/12/2021, 8:42 AM with comments

• Jörg Schilling (Schily) has died

  by rhabarba on 10/11/2021, 11:04 AM with 5 comments

• “I'm Not Supposed to Show You This ” – Edward Snowden (2021)

  by rhabarba on 8/30/2021, 9:54 PM with 37 comments

• It’s time to ban surveillance-based advertising

  by rhabarba on 6/28/2021, 7:02 PM with 0 comments

• WordTsar, a WordStar Clone

  by rhabarba on 5/31/2021, 2:32 PM with 140 comments

• Are you aware what you lose by just clicking OK to get started using something?

  by rhabarba on 5/15/2021, 6:43 PM with 0 comments

• Discord blocks iOS users from NSFW servers, blames Apple

  by rhabarba on 4/14/2021, 9:29 AM with 3 comments

• Apple Donated $100-$249 to FreeBSD in 2021

  by rhabarba on 4/6/2021, 7:20 PM with 120 comments

• XScreenSaver 6.00 Out Now

  by rhabarba on 4/2/2021, 5:54 PM with comments

• Let’s fix font size

  by rhabarba on 3/30/2021, 10:59 AM with 347 comments

• My Take on What I Would Replace FSFE With

  by rhabarba on 2/19/2021, 2:20 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: Dateadder – calculate tomorrow in a week on any platform that runs Go

  by rhabarba on 2/15/2021, 5:11 PM with 4 comments

• Facebook is disabling Instagram stickers in order to meet EU privacy directives

  by rhabarba on 12/17/2020, 1:04 PM with 0 comments

• GnuCOBOL 3.1.1

  by rhabarba on 12/11/2020, 12:06 PM with 225 comments

• French army gets go-ahead to create ‘bionic soldiers’ to make them stronge

  by rhabarba on 12/10/2020, 10:05 AM with 1 comments

• PHP 8.0 Is Released

  by rhabarba on 11/27/2020, 9:23 AM with 4 comments

• Show HN: Yaydl – yet another YouTube down loader (in Rust)

  by rhabarba on 11/9/2020, 3:30 PM with 4 comments

• King James Programming

  by rhabarba on 10/28/2020, 7:20 PM with 1 comments

• 9front “Emailschaden” Released

  by rhabarba on 10/22/2020, 9:36 AM with 0 comments

• AAPS: Mask Facts

  by rhabarba on 10/12/2020, 6:06 AM with 0 comments

• Using a Piece of Paper as a Display Terminal – Ed vs. Vim

  by rhabarba on 10/8/2020, 5:45 AM with 63 comments

• Show HN: ClipURLCleaner: Cleaning URLs in your clipboard

  by rhabarba on 9/23/2020, 11:22 AM with 2 comments

• Cobaul: A COBOL to WebAssembly Compiler

  by rhabarba on 9/21/2020, 3:36 PM with 54 comments

• Apple’s delayed privacy protection won’t make much difference

  by rhabarba on 9/8/2020, 9:55 PM with 1 comments

• Dotfiles: Stop the Madness (2012)

  by rhabarba on 7/9/2020, 1:23 PM with 0 comments

• Wanted: Console Text Editor for Windows

  by rhabarba on 6/28/2020, 11:42 AM with 94 comments

• Tcsh vs. bash vs. mksh vs. fish vs. ksh93 for interactive use

  by rhabarba on 6/2/2020, 1:57 PM with 0 comments

• A Common C/C++ Core Specification rev 2

  by rhabarba on 5/11/2020, 10:43 AM with 0 comments

• Show HN: Rssfs – An RSS reader written as a file system

  by rhabarba on 5/10/2020, 5:07 PM with 19 comments

• How Emacs should get more users

  by rhabarba on 5/9/2020, 3:53 PM with 0 comments

• Using Twitter over Acme

  by rhabarba on 5/6/2020, 1:34 PM with 0 comments

• Semantic Line Breaks

  by rhabarba on 4/21/2020, 2:02 PM with 0 comments

• Tired of Jira? / A Case for SCCS

  by rhabarba on 4/16/2020, 6:48 AM with 2 comments

• Comparing the single-file efficiency of version control systems

  by rhabarba on 4/3/2020, 12:13 PM with 0 comments

• Plan9port's Acme supports file names with spaces now

  by rhabarba on 1/21/2020, 11:24 AM with 0 comments

• Copy-Left Behind

  by rhabarba on 1/19/2020, 7:51 AM with 0 comments

• Jehanne: Towards Self Hosting

  by rhabarba on 1/13/2020, 4:14 AM with 0 comments

• SystemE: A lightweight systemd replacement written in Emacs Lisp

  by rhabarba on 1/9/2020, 7:50 PM with 0 comments

• Pegasus Mail, 30 Years On

  by rhabarba on 1/7/2020, 12:05 AM with 46 comments

• Falsehoods CS Students (Still) Believe Upon Graduating

  by rhabarba on 11/4/2019, 1:57 PM with 1 comments

• Pandora Mail: A Modern Successor for Eudora

  by rhabarba on 8/26/2019, 3:48 PM with 0 comments

• YouTube Blacklist Censors Content Containing Certain Keywords

  by rhabarba on 8/17/2019, 10:55 AM with 73 comments

• Show HN: Birdcries, a pure-privacy tweet viewer

  by rhabarba on 8/15/2019, 12:18 PM with 3 comments

• P++ FAQ: PHP for the 21st Century

  by rhabarba on 8/11/2019, 12:08 PM with 2 comments

• Instagram takes a toll on influencer's brains

  by rhabarba on 8/8/2019, 12:59 PM with 0 comments

• D U M B P H O N E L A N D I A (2014)

  by rhabarba on 5/23/2019, 5:52 PM with 0 comments

• PHP-Bypass-Disable-Functions

  by rhabarba on 5/21/2019, 10:15 AM with 2 comments

• 9webdraw: Connect to plan9 using your web browser with a rich draw terminal

  by rhabarba on 4/24/2019, 7:04 PM with 0 comments

• Luke Stark: Facial Recognition Is the Plutonium of AI [pdf]

  by rhabarba on 4/22/2019, 10:44 PM with 0 comments

• V7 Unix programs are often not written the way you would expect

  by rhabarba on 4/20/2019, 11:49 PM with 0 comments

• Unping all the links: A Chrome extension that disables Google's link tracking

  by rhabarba on 4/19/2019, 3:14 PM with 0 comments

• by rhabarba on 2/10/2019, 2:34 PM with comments

• AsmBB v2.4 has been released

  by rhabarba on 9/21/2018, 10:00 PM with 3 comments

• [YouTube] the IBM 1401 compiles and runs FORTRAN II

  by rhabarba on 9/10/2018, 1:43 PM with 2 comments

• Firefox's RSS support is about to phase out

  by rhabarba on 7/26/2018, 1:18 PM with 0 comments

• 05 December, 1995: AP Writes on Microsoft, Netscape, Java, and “JavaScript”

  by rhabarba on 7/25/2018, 8:19 PM with 0 comments

• DiggieDog: A (modern) Gopher Client for Android

  by rhabarba on 7/23/2018, 1:14 AM with 0 comments

• Running the Acme Editor on Debian on Windows

  by rhabarba on 5/16/2018, 9:20 PM with 2 comments

• RMS: A GNU manual, like a course in history, is not meant to be a “safe space”

  by rhabarba on 5/8/2018, 8:06 AM with 3 comments

• GDPR Blocking (PHP Edition)

  by rhabarba on 5/4/2018, 10:33 AM with 2 comments

• Show HN: Libvldmail, your friendly e-mail address validation library

  by rhabarba on 2/25/2018, 4:28 AM with 1 comments

• Pamela Anderson Hidden in Lecroy Wavepro Oscilloscope Firmware

  by rhabarba on 12/27/2017, 8:38 PM with 0 comments

• OpenBSD 6.2 and CDE

  by rhabarba on 12/20/2017, 6:13 AM with 58 comments

• Say hello to the world’s first blockchain smartphone

  by rhabarba on 12/1/2017, 11:07 AM with 0 comments

• Bitcoin is a scam

  by rhabarba on 11/30/2017, 1:50 AM with 0 comments

• Automatically Inferring Malware Signatures for Anti-Virus Assisted Attacks [pdf]

  by rhabarba on 4/9/2017, 3:59 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: A Web-to-RSS Parser in Common Lisp

  by rhabarba on 11/12/2016, 3:26 PM with 76 comments

• Help the Moldovan company RITLabs to survive

  by rhabarba on 12/30/2015, 6:46 PM with 24 comments

• Ask HN: Switching from WordPress To? (Static Site Generator Required)

  by rhabarba on 11/7/2015, 3:51 AM with 0 comments