Kuro5hin
kuro5hin.org · Group blog · on HN since 2007
Kuro5hin is a community-run site where users submitted and discussed technology and culture stories, including programming, health, and travel pieces.
What HN saysHN commenters recall it fondly and link to its older articles, such as the introduction to the K language and the Windows source piece.
141HN people shared it
92linked it in comments
64stories submitted
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Most-shared posts
- 1RIP Kuro5hin10 people · 298 points · first shared 2007 · 270 comments on HN
- 2We Are Morons: a quick look at the Win2k source (2004)10 people · 122 points · first shared 2009 · 48 comments on HN
- 3How to cure your Asthma or hay-fever using hookworm.9 people · 23 points · first shared 2008 · 24 comments on HN
- 4"Traditional methods for protecting community from..scale..are now manifestly unfeasible"7 people · 107 points · first shared 2009 · 22 comments on HN
- 5A Shallow Introduction to the K Programming Language7 people · 6 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 6How I Learned French in One Year4 people · 102 points · first shared 2009 · 48 comments on HN
- 7A Coder in Courierland4 people · 83 points · first shared 2008 · 29 comments on HN
- 8How to Get Your Teeth Fixed in Mexico (2003)4 people · 11 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 9The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect: post-singularity fiction, freely available online4 people · 4 points · first shared 2007 · 1 comments on HN
- 1017846 7574 people · first shared 2010
- 1122428 70344 people · first shared 2010
- 12The greatest program ever written3 people · 141 points · first shared 2010 · 56 comments on HN
- 13How to game the U.S. higher-education system3 people · 81 points · first shared 2009 · 32 comments on HN
- 14Politics-Oriented Software Development3 people · 49 points · first shared 2010 · 9 comments on HN
- 15The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect [1994]3 people · 45 points · first shared 2007 · 11 comments on HN
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jpirkola · 2009-03-24
Okay, thanks for your comments, I appreciate you took time to answer my question. I got really interested about http://Kuro5hin.org (thanks Thorax!) and may try that at some point, they seem to have editorial feedback system too. If I was planning to sell my article, I would have loved ErrantX comment, thanks!
I decided to publish the article at my own blog, even it doesn't fit in 100% there. I will post the link here tomorrow for your comments, the title will be: "IT giants back up open source 3D Web".
browningstreet · 2021-09-23
I didn't know http://www.kuro5hin.org/ wasn't around anymore.
Pouring out a sip of my iced coffee for some old memories...
infinite8s · 2016-01-20
Well, considering the BSD network stack was BSD licensed, MS didn't really 'steal' it (http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/6/19/05641/7357)
bokchoi · 2015-03-05
My favorite Kuro5hin article is the intro to the K language:
https://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/11/14/22741/791
MichaelCrawford · 2015-01-10
Kuro5hin - Technology and Culture, From the Trenches
http://www.kuro5hin.org/
Torn · 2014-10-18
According to wikipedia's uncited 'performance characteristics' section of their page on K (programming language):
> The small size of the interpreter and compact syntax of the language makes it possible for K applications to fit entirely within the level 1 cache of the processor.
Sounds like the overhead's acceptable?
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Edit: the following page (2002) says
> Even though K is an interpreted language, the source code is somewhat compiled internally, but not into abstract machine code like Java or Python. The interpreter can be invoked interactively or non-interactively, and you can also compile a source file down to a binary file for product distribution, if you wish.
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/11/14/22741/791
Joeboy · 2014-08-04
The greatest program ever written [1]
[1] https://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/8/10/12620/2164
jacquesm · 2014-05-23
It took a while to find, this old kuro5hin article is a good read on the subject:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2009/3/12/33338/3000
Titled "Attacked from within" it details the problems in scaling a community and community life-cycle very eloquently.
bjourne · 2014-05-06
http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/6/19/05641/7357
Windows used to, and perhaps even still does, incorporate some bsd-licensed code in its network stack. That's a plausible explanation for the unixy path to the hosts file.
smacktoward · 2014-02-10
There's also Scoop (http://www.scoopdev.org/), which came out of a late '90s exodus of disgruntled Slashdotters to a new site, Kuro5hin (http://www.kuro5hin.org/). They needed their own Slash-alike to run the site, and Scoop was the result. It actually ended up making more of a splash in politics than in tech -- influential early political blog Daily Kos was built on Scoop, and this led many other political discussion sites of that time to adopt it as well. (DKos migrated off Scoop a couple of years ago.)
The quality of Scoop's code and the vibrancy of its development community can both be inferred from the fact that, in 2014, its FAQ warns you that it doesn't run well under Apache 2.
techtalsky · 2013-09-19
I'll always love all the comments that came to light when a significant hunk of Win2k source code was leaked, especially:
* The magnitude of this hack compares favorably with that of the national debt.
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/2/15/71552/7795
educating · 2013-09-12
Backstabbing happens everywhere, unfortunately. The main problem with MS was that it was too profit driven for too many years instead of trying to do what was best for the users. Making profit eventually has a direct correlation to providing consistent quality that is better than the next guy or more consistently better. It all comes back to happiness; customers are happier when they get what they expect (intuitive) and what the need (low bugs, fast), not what they want (shiny UI).
They had some really shitty code. http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/2/15/71552/7795
My fav:
private\ntos\w32\ntuser\client\nt6\user.h:
* The magnitude of this hack compares favorably with that of the national debt.
Intermernet · 2013-04-18
Yeah, but then again I love occasionally coming across the rant of some angry dev in source comments (see http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/ for an analysis of profanity in the linux kernel source).
Compare that with the source of Win2k (http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/2/15/71552/7795) where there were apparently "a dozen or so "fucks" and "shits", and hundreds of "craps"."
It seems greater stability is achieved when devs are allowed to express themselves in comments.
benji-york · 2013-03-13
A truly great story. Another I like in a similar vein, with perhaps less emotional punch, but good nonetheless: https://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/12/21/17846/757
More at the author's site: http://localroger.com
Futurebot · 2012-11-22
What's amazing to me that in the past 10 years, so much has changed with regard to the music industry (streaming radio, MP3s becoming ubiquitous at mainstream e-commerce sites, everyone with a music player/smartphone in their pocket, etc.) and yet how little has changed (lawsuits, the laws themselves, and the general insanity around the topic.) A glimpse into these same conversations from the previous era:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/6/21/73329/8778
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/7/31/205359/166
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/5/16/163447/493
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/6/21/215822/505
bilban · 2012-02-18
I remember this site envisioned the idea of realising original content:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/
Quite how you measure that though... I always liked the idea.
scott_s · 2011-11-02
For anyone who spends their day (or most of some days) in a terminal connected to a remote server, I can't recommend using GNU Screen enough (brief tutorial: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/3/9/16838/14935).
I've worked almost exclusively on remote servers, using the command line and vim, for about eight years now. It's only been in the past year that I started using Screen, and I feel stupid for not using it sooner.
gojomo · 2010-12-10
Reminds of this classic Kuro5hin account of seeking hookworm infection as an asthma treatment:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2006/4/30/91945/8971
jws · 2010-09-30
The google is strong with me today. http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/12/21/17846/757
One of my favorite sci-fi short story trilogies.
ecaradec · 2010-05-14
"How I Learned French in One Year" : http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/12/29/15258/287
is a very insighful article on how to learn language without going to the country. Advices are not specific to french. The best advice I retained is that commute time are your friends when learning a language.
EricBurnett · 2010-04-23
I would also recommend The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/prime-intellect/mopiall.html
It is a (quite graphic) novella about the human race after the technological singularity, and I think one of the best pieces of writing on the subject that I have ever read.
aharrison · 2010-04-12
This story has been the source of many discussions between my girlfriend and I, and I heartily recommend it. While it can be a bit disturbing, I think that helps drive home the point (it is kuro5hin, after all.)
It also led to a number of very amusing jokes targeted at the author (localroger). My favorite being here:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2008/8/20/84039/4943
This [alarm clock] will be useful to me. I sometimes forget to feed the small girl chained in my basement. Serious writers need muses.
Perceval · 2010-03-15
The guy wrote a follow-up piece last year: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2009/3/16/3408/66053
rms · 2010-01-05
Two of my favorite books that are freely available online, both in the genre of post-singularity utopian science fiction:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/prime-intellect/
http://craphound.com/down/download.php
boredguy8 · 2009-12-14
The most fascinating part of this whole thing to me is having the chance to see the movie after having read the 'scriptment' over 5 years ago. http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/5/8/73755/86297 provided the link, though I'm not finding the document online any longer.
(BTW, the link is worth visiting for a few other interesting scripts--for instance, a version of "I Am Legend". http://www.horrorlair.com/moviescripts_a_f.html has more)
Micand · 2009-12-09
On a similar, somewhat-related tangent: The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect is a fantastic novella depicting rapid change caused by a technological singularity.
http://www.kuro5hin.org/prime-intellect/
wozer · 2009-05-27
A Kuro5hin classic about the subject:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2006/4/30/91945/8971
bayareaguy · 2008-02-23
Shouldn't this kind of thing (life experience) be more appropriate for http://www.kuro5hin.org ?
nickb · 2007-07-24
http://www.kuro5hin.org/ had ads that you can comment on etc. but it never worked out. These new ads are a step forward with the targeting system.
Still, I'd like to know how many people actually care about seeing ads.
DashRattlesnake · 2017-08-11
> Kuro5hin
It's finally dead!
http://kuro5hin.org