zacharydenton

Born on November 17, 2010•9 Karma

on Sept 22, 2016

•on: Munchausen Numbers and How to Find Them

Thanks, this post has been converted through several different blog engines over the years and I hadn't noticed the rendering was broken until now. It's meant to look more like https://zach.se/project-euler-solutions/48/.

zacharydenton•

on Jan 22, 2014

•on: Hacker News without the Hacker News (on Meteor)

Yeah, the code's on GitHub: https://github.com/zacharydenton/hackernews

p.s. thanks for posting this, gerrys0

zacharydenton•

on Aug 22, 2013

•on: Hacker News has native mobile view

Here's another HN mobile web app: http://hn.meteor.com/

quail•

on Aug 22, 2013

Wow. Thanks for the link. I love this mobile version.

zacharydenton•

on July 12, 2013

•on: Ask HN: What are you working on?

I've been building this Hacker News web app over the past couple days: http://hn.meteor.com/

The code's on GitHub: https://github.com/zacharydenton/hackerreader

zacharydenton•

on Sept 1, 2012

•on: Ask HN: suggested sweet laptops for running Ubuntu...

CrunchBang is the best-looking distro I've come across. It also comes with scripts that will install common proprietary software like Chrome or Dropbox.

Obviously you could accomplish all of that by installing Debian and spending hours configuring it yourself, but that seems unnecessary when others have already done it for you.

dfc•

on Sept 1, 2012

Spending hours to install Chrome?

    apt-get install chromium

Or just go to the chrome download page and download the official chrome debian package?

I'm also not sure that chrome ios "proprietary software."

zacharydenton•

on Sept 1, 2012

To be clear, the part that takes hours to accomplish is "best-looking distro I've come across".

Of course it's not difficult to install Google Chrome (or Chromium for that matter). It just saves time to have it installed automatically.

zacharydenton•

on Aug 4, 2012

•on: Who 'likes' my Virtual Bagels?

If the point of the experiment was to determine whether Facebook ads are primarily clicked by real people (as opposed to "indiscriminate clickers"), the author should have used something so bland no one except bots would click on. I'd be interested in seeing what kind of users click on ads for "Moist Lint", for instance.

zacharydenton•

on July 29, 2012

•on: Vimwiki

In the past I used Soywiki, which, like Vimwiki, is a wiki inside Vim. While I love Vim, it was too inefficient to have to ssh into a box, cd into ~/wiki, and launch Vim just to read or edit an entry -- especially on my phone.

The solution I've found is called Gitit, which stores entries as plaintext in Git like Vimwiki and Soywiki, but adds several additional features on top of that:

- powered by Pandoc, which means you can write entries in Markdown/LaTeX/reStructuredText/Literate Haskell, and export them in almost any format, including PDF, HTML, LaTeX, Markdown, ePub, and ODT.

- a customizable web interface. I used Bootstrap to make the wiki look great everywhere. Couple that with the speech-to-text features in Android 4.0+ and storing your knowledge becomes effortless anywhere.

- a Haskell plugin system. You can write plugins with access to the Pandoc AST, allowing you to do things like archive all outbound URLs or enable [Interwiki](!Wikipedia) links.