Skip to content
HomeVideosBooksBlogs
AllTop postsTopics
Podcasts
HistoryListsWatch laterLiked videosFollowing

The videos, books, blogs and podcasts Hacker News keeps recommending, all in one place.

VideosBooksBlogsPodcastsAboutPrivacySettings

Data from Hacker News, HackerTube, HackerBooks, HackerBlogs and Open Library. Credits · Not affiliated with Y Combinator.

HomeVideosBooksBlogsPodcasts
Ctrl K
    S

    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.

    Visit blogHN submissions
    NetworkingProgrammingHistory
    What HN says

    HN links it for Hamachi's history; commenters remember it fondly as a focused app that declined after LogMeIn bought it.

    Stats for nerds
    16HN people shared it
    15linked in comments
    344story points
    Mar 2025last shared
    2011people per year2025

    Top posts on HN

    1. 1
      Google bot now appears to emulate users interacting with the site
      1 person · 130 points · first shared 2012 · 30 comments on HN
    2. 2
      Show HN: Password validity hinting
      1 person · 58 points · first shared 2012 · 78 comments on HN
    3. 3
      Show HN: Prune Unwanted Stories from HN Front Page
      1 person · 49 points · first shared 2012 · 24 comments on HN
    4. 4
      Performance of a Paid Tweet
      1 person · 21 points · first shared 2012 · 32 comments on HN
    5. 5
      On Linked Lists
      1 person · 20 points · first shared 2010 · 11 comments on HN
    6. 6
      Show HN: Native Analytics (work in progress)
      1 person · 19 points · first shared 2012 · 29 comments on HN
    7. 7
      Show HN: Pinned tweets (an idea)
      1 person · 16 points · first shared 2012 · 9 comments on HN
    8. 8
      Font Smoothing Detection in Browsers
      3 people · 11 points · first shared 2011 · 6 comments on HN
    9. 9
      Resubscribe
      1 person · 10 points · first shared 2012 · 4 comments on HN
    10. 10
      Hamachi: The virtual private networking system
      12 people · 5 points · first shared 2012 · Discussion on HN

    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • DaizJul 2013

      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

    • degenerateDec 2019

      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

    • tomkuJun 2013

      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

    • aidenn0Mar 2014

      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

    • adamorsMar 2025

      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.

    • abcd_fDec 2013

      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

    Related

    Bvckup Blogbvckup2.com29 people

    Show HN: Bvckup 2 – Fast File Replicator for Windows

    Bvckup Blog
    Company · last shared 2026
    DHHworld.hey.com/dhh654 people

    The Framework Desktop is a beast

    DHH
    Personal · last shared 2026
    nullpt.rsnullpt.rs25 people

    Breaking the 4Chan CAPTCHA

    nullpt.rs
    Personal · last shared 2025
    Google Research Bloggoogleresearch.blogspot.com303 people

    Announcing SyntaxNet: The World’s Most Accurate Natural Language Parser

    Google Research Blog
    Company · last shared 2017
    Google Online Security Bloggoogleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com225 people

    No More Deceptive Download Buttons

    Google Online Security Blog
    Company · last shared 2016
    Google AI Blogai.googleblog.com596 people

    Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone

    Google AI Blog
    Company · last shared 2026
    Ilya Grigorikigvita.com177 people

    Chrome DevTools could do that?

    Ilya Grigorik
    Personal · last shared 2026
    Paul Butlerpaulbutler.org29 people

    “Play-to-Earn” and Bullshit Jobs

    Paul Butler
    Personal · last shared 2025