Swapped
swapped.cc · Personal blog · on HN since 2009
Alex Pankratov's personal site, covering his work on Hamachi, small tools, and web and browser experiments.
What HN saysHN links it for Hamachi's history; commenters remember it fondly as a focused app that declined after LogMeIn bought it.
16HN people shared it
13linked it in comments
15stories submitted
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Most-shared posts
- 1Hamachi: The virtual private networking system12 people · 5 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 2Font Smoothing Detection in Browsers3 people · 11 points · first shared 2011 · 6 comments on HN
- 3Halloc3 people · first shared 2009
- 4Hamachi2 people · first shared 2013
- 5Google bot now appears to emulate users interacting with the site1 people · 130 points · first shared 2012 · 30 comments on HN
- 6Show HN: Password validity hinting1 people · 58 points · first shared 2012 · 78 comments on HN
- 7Show HN: Prune Unwanted Stories from HN Front Page1 people · 49 points · first shared 2012 · 24 comments on HN
- 8Performance of a Paid Tweet1 people · 21 points · first shared 2012 · 32 comments on HN
- 9On Linked Lists1 people · 20 points · first shared 2010 · 11 comments on HN
- 10Show HN: Native Analytics (work in progress)1 people · 19 points · first shared 2012 · 29 comments on HN
- 11Show HN: Pinned tweets (an idea)1 people · 16 points · first shared 2012 · 9 comments on HN
- 12Resubscribe1 people · 10 points · first shared 2012 · 4 comments on HN
- 13On Backups1 people · 4 points · first shared 2012 · 1 comments on HN
- 14Yafe – Yet Another Fractal Explorer [2011]1 people · 1 points · first shared 2017 · 1 comments on HN
- 15Lyapunov 2048 bw.png1 people · first shared 2017
What HN people wrote when they linked it
adamors · 2025-03-05
Hamachi was amazing, one of the best, most focused apps I've ever used. We were kids but it was still easy to use. Then they were bought by LogMeIn and was killed unceremoniously.
Also, it's old but not 90s old: https://swapped.cc/#!/hamachi released in 2004 actually.
degenerate · 2019-12-17
Hamachi was created by Alex Pankratov. Once LogMeIn purchased Hamachi, they ruined it with the following update (either purposefully or accidentally) by making it no longer work with a large handful of older games. That sanfu in combination with a more bloated UI, forced LogMeIn account, and a splattering of useless features made it obsolete within a few months. It was the fastest rise and fall of a piece of software I have ever personally witnessed. You can read about the original Hamachi on the author's website here: https://swapped.cc/#!/hamachi
moksha256 · 2021-02-16
I really like this page from the creator's personal website:
https://swapped.cc/#!/personal-mark
This "personal mark" seems to be encapsulated well in this kanban board. Bravo!
apankrat · 2018-08-02
There ya go :)
https://swapped.cc/
From the time when I had too much free time.
j_s · 2015-01-28
Alex Pankratov, the developer of Hamachi, discusses his approach here: https://swapped.cc/#!/hamachi
aidenn0 · 2014-03-18
Though not what it's designed for, halloc[1] Is similar to what you are talking about; if each function manually allocated its locals with halloc, and used the parent function as the parent allocator, then you would get an unbroken tree, and would free all the children upon returning from the function that had called setjmp().
[1] http://swapped.cc/#!/halloc
Daiz · 2013-07-29
You don't actually seem to be using the logo anywhere, though. On your site you write that "I had (have) plans to write an Instant Messenger client with proper support for privacy. This was the logo concept for the project"[1], but this project does not actually seem to exist (at least not in any public manner).
As such, why not just leave the logo of Tox in peace? Especially since it's a FOSS project with noble goals (even if they have yet to reach those goals, which is not surprising considering how early in the development the entire project is) and not some commercial entity intending to profit off of it.
[1] http://swapped.cc/#!/logotypes
levosmetalo · 2013-06-25
You can find a script home page at http://swapped.cc/#!/iip
However, I had to manually enable script on https://news.ycombinator.com/* since it is enabled only on http by default.
tomku · 2013-06-23
Check out "Selectivity for HN"[1]. It's manual, but situations like these are rare enough (for now...) that it's not too much of a hassle to block stories yourself. I probably would've stopped using HN if not for it - the site is basically completely dysfunctional on days like this, particularly if you don't agree with the majority views on "hacker politics" topics.
[1]: http://swapped.cc/#!/iip
latitude · 2012-04-01
I rebuilt my own site - http://swapped.cc - not exactly "in March" though... it took closer to 9 months :)
eps · 2020-03-21
Add UDP relays and TCP hole punching and it'll finally be a better take on Hamachi :)
https://swapped.cc/hamachi
abcd_f · 2013-12-08
Talloc borrows the block hierarchy idea from halloc and extends it with destructors and some fluff. So if you need just the hierarchy, take a look at http://www.swapped.cc/halloc
EDIT - https://github.com/apankrat/halloc too
huhtenberg · 2011-07-19
Have a look at http://swapped.cc/font-smoothing to see what you are getting into with webfonts.