Hundred Rabbits
100r.co · Group blog · on HN since 2019
Hundred Rabbits is a small collective living on a sailboat, building low-power software like Uxn and Orca and writing about off-grid work.
What HN saysCommenters call the site a treasure trove and the people great, noting their projects, the Orca sequencer, and the minimal Uxn virtual machine for retro and permacomputing.
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- 1Uxn35 people · 687 points · first shared 2021 · 98 comments on HN
- 2Orca – esoteric programming language, designed to create procedural sequencers29 people · 252 points · first shared 2020 · 38 comments on HN
- 3Weathering Software Winter (2022)17 people · 154 points · first shared 2023 · 52 comments on HN
- 4Hundred Rabbits – Low-tech living while sailing the world16 people · 261 points · first shared 2020 · 77 comments on HN
- 5Homepage14 people · first shared 2019
- 6Working Off-Grid Efficiently11 people · 286 points · first shared 2021 · 142 comments on HN
- 7Off the Grid11 people · 258 points · first shared 2020 · 118 comments on HN
- 8Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech8 people · 782 points · first shared 2020 · 488 comments on HN
- 9Computing and Sustainability6 people · 6 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 10Ronin – A Lisp-based image processing tool5 people · 368 points · first shared 2020 · 35 comments on HN
- 11100 Rabbits – Philosophy5 people · 2 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 12Dotgrid, the Vector Tool4 people · 3 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 13Left: Distractionless Plaintext Editor4 people · 2 points · first shared 2020 · 1 comments on HN
- 14Hundred Rabbits – Mission4 people · 1 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 15Busy Doing Nothing3 people · 26 points · first shared 2021 · 6 comments on HN
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kamranjon · 2022-01-09
I follow the folks over at 100 rabbits (https://100r.co) and I think they’ve sort of developed yak shaving into a lifestyle.
I don’t want to go too far into it cause the website is a treasure trove and exciting to explore on your own but if you follow some of their latest stuff, they’ve built a stack based virtual machine, and a whole set of software around it and it truly feels like they are just exploring every avenue that interests them without rushing themselves. Truly the embodiment of my grow a beard and learn Haskell dreams.
zimbatm · 2020-05-08
It's also worth taking a look at the author's website: https://100r.co/ - ORCA is just one of many projects and explorations that they do while living on a boat.
amatecha · 2019-02-08
YouTube user Allieway Audio has started posting a series of great tutorials and introductory videos for Orca:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaI_TuISSJE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR1TMGYhCoE
To give a bit of context the primary creator of this project has been essentially living off a sailboat for the past few years and has traveled some 28000km around the world in the process. More info at their site at https://100r.co/ :)
hstaab · 2022-01-02
https://100r.co are some really great folks
iamnothere · 2026-06-09
This is great, thanks for releasing your work. Very impressive.
You may get some interest from others in the retrocomputing/permacomputing sphere if you implement an Uxn emulator; it is extremely simple and can run on very limited hardware. https://100r.co/site/uxn.html
Vintage hardware would be a great host for Uxn programs, so I suspect this would generate some excitement.
skydhash · 2026-02-03
> I expect the markets are reflecting that soon there will be more competition.
> It'll take time, and as LLMs improve, it'll take even less time.
People have written great software in ed(1). We have tools like uxn[0] written on potato computers and billions and years later, we still have to hope for AI output.
[0]: https://100r.co/site/uxn.html
dcreager · 2025-10-20
Stepping away from Forth in particular, one of the benefits of a stack-based / concatenative language is that it's easy to implement on constrained hardware. uxn [1] is a great example of that.
And shameless self-promotion, if you're interested in how these kinds of languages compare with more traditional named-based languages, with more theoretical constructs like the lambda calculus and combinatory logic, and with gadgets like a PyBadge — well you're in luck! I gave a talk about exactly that at the final Strange Loop [2].
[1] https://100r.co/site/uxn.html
[2] https://dcreager.net/talks/concatenative-languages/
apgwoz · 2025-08-15
In the very early 2000s, a coworker of mine, who was frequently banned from the Something Awful forums, shared with me a language, which I think was called “Path”, that was 2D. IIRC, execution of code followed a textual path through the file. I seem to remember it being sort of like a 2D brainfuck. You essentially drew a map to compute.
When I look at Orca (https://100r.co/site/orca.html) I’m reminded of it, but it was definitely unique. Anyone happen to remember / have a link to a successor?
QRY · 2025-07-18
Their work has molded a lot of my views on technology, such a breath of fresh air when I first found out about them! They really inspired me to look at my own work and ask how to make it more resilient, how to decrease dependencies.
From my experience, achieving provider independence boils down to: own your stack, work offline-first, test failure modes constantly.
Been trying to get a setup going with NixOS + local AI + custom CLI tools for development work, and I never would have thought to pursue this sort of thing if I hadn't found these people. Great stuff!
Oh and ORCA is a LOT of fun! Give it a shot if you're into sounddesign, or generative electronic music stuff: https://100r.co/site/orca.html
xrd · 2025-07-18
A friend asked me whether I was concerned about energy usage of AI. I didn't have a good answer. It feels inevitable.
But, I love the write-up here on why the sailboat, and why UXN, because those two things are complementary when you are living in a sailboat and are thinking intimately about your power consumption.
https://100r.co/site/why_a_boat.html
https://100r.co/site/uxn.html
Seeing Devine at StrangeLoop last year was a treat (and took a lot of mental energy!)
themk · 2025-07-18
I highly recommend reading their north pacific crossing log book.
https://100r.co/site/north_pacific_logbook.html
rwhaling · 2025-07-18
Love 100r! There aren't a ton of examples online, but their livecoding music software/language, ORCA, is a remarkable instrument. https://100r.co/site/orca.html
I posted a clip to bsky a few weeks back: https://bsky.app/profile/r.whal.ing/post/3lpyrm4vrqs2d
And Allieway Audio made some great Youtube videos about ORCA too if people would like to learn how it works in more of a tutorial format: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaI_TuISSJE&t=446s
(I love the Dwarf Fortress background for this video, it absolutely nails the vibe)
apitman · 2025-06-19
If you've never heard of Uxn I highly recommend reading this: https://100r.co/site/weathering_software_winter.html
leoncvlt · 2025-01-06
Not new, but always enjoy occasionally checking what Rek and Devine are up to @ 100 rabbits: https://100r.co/
incanus77 · 2024-08-01
If anyone is interested further, I would highly recommend one of Devine’s latest talks, from Strange Loop:
https://100r.co/site/computing_and_sustainability.html
Transcribed and video format. Among other things, they came into computing from a bit of a different direction and ended up building tools and a platform that I’m betting 90% of people in the industry would revere in awe as things beyond their understanding. Truly an inspiration.
_whiteCaps_ · 2024-08-01
https://100r.co/site/princess_louisa_inlet.html
"PLI is truly a picturesque place, nestled between extraordinarily large mountains and cliffs, blessed with clear waters and lush forests. The waters in the inlet are very calm, it is well-shielded. Any boat wakes travel far thoughout the inlet, from wall to wall, and take a long while to subside. If motoring in this inlet, go slow."
Wow. Surprised to see one of my favourite places show up on HN.
If you have the opportunity to go to Princess Louisa Inlet, I highly recommend it.
The contrast between the glaciers and the ocean is breathtakingly beautiful.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Princess+Louisa+Inlet/@50.205178,-12…
tazu · 2024-03-22
This looks similar to what the cool couple at 100 Rabbits [1] are doing with Uxn. Overall, I love to support anyone producing hobby / cute software (especially with Lua!).
[1]: https://100r.co/site/uxn.html
levicole · 2024-03-04
Devine had a great talk about the "why" of Uxn at Strange Loop last year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3u7bGgVspM
And there was another talk that used it as an example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umSuLpjFUf8
Both were great. I'm a big fan of 100R's work. Another language of theirs worth checking out is Orca: https://100r.co/site/orca.html
aiiane · 2024-01-03
You might be interested in Hundred Rabbits (https://100r.co/).
entaloneralie · 2023-10-10
My partner and I run a small video game studio and we wanted a bytecode format we could run on every device we owned, so we made a 100ish lines VM spec, and implemented these thin emulation layers for the different platforms. My wiki, our games, the compilers, linters and type checkers are all written in that same language, assembling to rom files that will run equally well on a GBA, Playdate, RPi, Thinkpad, PSP and so forth.
It's worth looking into. I hope you find something that works :)
https://100r.co/site/weathering_software_winter.html
tepitoperrito · 2023-10-02
maybe check out PICO 8. It's basically a VM (self styled fantasy game console) that runs on a bunch of devices and an active community. https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
A similar project that I'm eager to hack on (or maybe try my hand at implementing something similar in WASM) is the UXN platform. https://100r.co/site/uxn.html
And if we're already talking VM platforms to explore, there's no reason that someone who doesn't want to do software professionally can't get a lot of enjoyment from some basic syntax knowledge and making modifications to software they use every day (whether that's writing a userscript in your browser or exploring your favorite game via mods)
augusto-moura · 2023-08-09
I don't mean live updates (while that must exist at some level, at least for sharing with family), but a lot of blogs and channels that I follow from people living aboard do have some updates posting, either scheduled, weekly for example, when they have easy access to ports or internet in the sea (there are some expensive, high latency satellites), or no schedules, just updates when they feel like it [1].
No pressure anyway, is just something that I'm enthusiastic about :)
If they ever put out some records on how it went after it finished, it would definitely be something that I would read
[1]: https://100r.co/site/about_us.html
zetalyrae · 2023-07-15
I admire this team very much. See also this great article about searching for simpler and simpler models of computing: https://100r.co/site/weathering_software_winter.html
reidrac · 2023-07-15
Some of the stuff is truly fascinating. My favourite: Solar Collector Tubes (cooking using the sun, including baking bread).
https://100r.co/site/solar_evacuated_tube_cooking.html
l_theanine · 2023-02-25
Arguably more interesting is UXN: https://100r.co/site/uxn.html
A small personal computing stack, with a plethora of examples ready to go. Built by two they/them hackers who live on a boat and basically have bootstrapped everything about their vessel, their computing, their engineering, etc. It's very, VERY old-school hacker-y.
They would've made excellent phreaks back in the good ol' days.
akkartik · 2023-02-06
Find a side project. Something not involving web stacks and Javascript. I recommend one of these platforms, which trade off complexity for power to varying degrees:
* https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
* https://100r.co/site/uxn.html
* https://love2d.org (shameless plug: http://akkartik.name/post/roundup22)
I never work with raw pixels at my day job, and it's been enormously satisfying to take control of a whole app and build things nobody else will ever build.
mit20220401 · 2022-05-12
have read some comments here:
> "They have the best designers, i feel like in the US we have no taste, i knew this couldn't be an American company." -- @iamricks
how about monome (https://monome.org/norns)?
@chaosprint
glicol is cool. another two interesting live coding languages are tidal (https://tidalcycles.org) and orca (https://100r.co/site/orca.html)
sph · 2022-05-11
Tangential: I highly recommend exploring the parent site https://wiki.xxiivv.com and the associated http://100r.co the author is working on with their sailing boat partner. Yes, they're living on a sail boat in the Pacific Ocean.
Some cool software they've developed:
- http://100r.co/site/orca.html
- http://100r.co/site/ronin.html
- http://100r.co/site/uxn.html
It's such a deep rabbit hole of talent, passion and intellectual gratification. I'm not affiliated, just a fan, I really love their stuff.
2143 · 2022-03-24
Probably not very often.
Next time you're flying across the pond, try coding (without bothering to subscribe to onboard wifi).
Also, it can be useful in places where steady internet is sketchy, which is a lot of places.
The folks at 100 rabbits [1] would be happy.
[1] https://100r.co/site/working_offgrid_efficiently.html