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CRusTTY: A pedagogical C interpreter with time-travel debugging capabilities(github.com)
20 points by varun_ch 7mo ago|2 comments
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by varun_ch 7mo ago
For sure! I was so surprised to see that this was done all in browser. I mean there’s no reason that shouldn’t be possible in 2026 considering there’s services that do this server side, but still it’s always impressive when something like t
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by varun_ch 7mo ago
there’s something so beautiful about the plan9 aesthetic https://plan9.io/plan9/img/screenshot-small.png Wonder if it’s possible to recreate on any mainstream operating system…
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by varun_ch 7mo ago
Maybe if you’ve got some ancient software that’s missing source code and only runs with X Y and Z conditions, you could continue to offer it on the web and build around it like that? Not sure if that would be practical at all, but could be
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by varun_ch 7mo ago
The website does say that it was ‘vibe coded’[0] so perhaps the author didn’t test it very thoroughly? They apparently do ‘vibe coding’ courses so.. that’s something. [0] https://arcade.pirillo.com/
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by varun_ch 8mo ago
but any interaction is good for Chrome, like dismissing a cookie banner
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Exfiltrating passwords with no interaction using autofill(varun.ch)
2 points by varun_ch 8mo ago|0 comments
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by varun_ch 8mo ago
Also, I’m also surprised an XSS attack like hasn’t yet been actually used to harvest credentials like passwords through browser autofill[0]. It seems like the worm code/the replicated code only really attacks stuff on site. But leaking
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by varun_ch 8mo ago
Woah this looks like an old school XSS worm https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges?hidebo... I’ve always thought the fact that MediaWiki sometimes lets editors embed JavaScript could be dangerous.
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by varun_ch 8mo ago
It is fantastic that Firefox gives us the benefit of choice though. Maybe Chrome or whatever has better UX taste out of the box, but good luck changing anything if you disagree. I wrote a blog post about how I customized Firefox exactly to
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by varun_ch 8mo ago
A big thing would be API requests/browser automation. Web apps can’t do that without a backend proxy due to CORS
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by varun_ch 8mo ago
It’s unclear if the article is talking about a hosted service or something ‘self hostable’. > Employees working on it have considered making the code repository available for purchase to OpenAI's customer base. This makes it sound
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A bright coloured fish(varun.ch)
1 points by varun_ch 8mo ago|0 comments
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by varun_ch 8mo ago
Some more discussion on similar things: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38380344
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by varun_ch 8mo ago
Looks like he's now https://github.com/ogcopilot
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by varun_ch 8mo ago
It makes sense in a chatroom if you direct a message @someone (at someone), or if you direct a tweet @someone. So I guess the natural progression of that is @someone becoming the identifier.
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by varun_ch 8mo ago
What’s with all the LLM spam on here lately?
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by varun_ch 8mo ago
in this case, they're on a github.io subdomain, which they don't own.
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by varun_ch 8mo ago
I’m not sure if this is a large scale thing, but I know it’s definitely true for myself and some others. My first exposure to Git and GitHub was through GitHub Pages. I was told to use the GitHub web editor, ignore all the ‘git’ stuff, and
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by varun_ch 8mo ago
I was surprised to see that Beeper actually has support for ‘local bridges’ that connect to services on-device (which reduces the risk of bans and removes Beeper as the middleman). I was unsurprised to see that (at least with the local Inst
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by varun_ch 8mo ago
If I’m understanding this correctly, this third party status page for GitHub is hosted on GitHub Pages and is powered by GitHub Actions…
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by varun_ch 8mo ago
Unfortunately I wouldn’t be so sure that there aren’t any 7 year old Discord users
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by varun_ch 8mo ago
The World Factbook was a really useful resource on the internet.
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by varun_ch 9mo ago
and it's also the inspiration for the logo of sudo https://www.sudo.ws/
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by varun_ch 9mo ago
I think on the numworks you can use the arrow keys to pull up an old expression. I think it would be really cool if someone built out an interpreted, nicely rendered calculator language/repl that could do variables and stuff. Might be
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by varun_ch 9mo ago
built-in calculator apps are surprisingly underbaked... I'm surprised neither of the big two operating systems have elected to ship something comparable to a real calculator built in. It would be nice if we could preview the whole expr
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by varun_ch 9mo ago
Why continue to use an operating system that’s adversarial towards you?
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by varun_ch 9mo ago
IIRC the animation that plays when you use ctrl+arrow keys to swap desktops is tied to the framerate so it's ridiculously slow on high refresh rate monitors. also the passwords popup on MacOS only sometimes takes keyboard input, so if
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by varun_ch 9mo ago
Funny that this comes up today! I was just looking into adding a keyboard monitor to my website (I have a goal of making my 'contact me' page have oddly specific information). I wouldn't show the actual keys, just show a blin
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by varun_ch 9mo ago
It’s pretty easy to forge git commit dates and push them to a private repo. Does this account for that?

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