Unfortunately, a JVM on wasm would be quite difficult for the same reason that Lisp over wasm is quite difficult (I had actually looked for wasm JVMs before trying anything). I had no idea there was a JS JVM implementation! That's very cool.
Thanks for the only compliment in the thread! I appreciate it, especially given I've been such a fan of your writing and life for such a long time.
I think that the people who responded to you covered much of it, but you can find more by doing a web search for it. I'd find you links myself, but it's early in the morning and I'm a little tired.
I think it's fine to accuse people of things, even though I did feel a little sad about it. I don't think the problem is that you broke rules of a web forum, or that you attacked me. I wasn't complaining that you were flippant and off-topic, I was complaining that you think silly web designs are a masculine trait, which is incredibly sexist, as well-intentioned as the sentiment is. Geocities was almost gender-balanced, which included a lot of people of all different kinds of backgrounds making strange-looking web pages. Neocities has more web pages by women than nearly anywhere else on the Internet, and many of those designs aren't to corporate sensibilities, either.
My post is WCAG AA-compliant, except for the very specific occurrence of meaningless social links, and those meaningless social links render well in a browser's 'Reader View'. My site contains no ECMAScript aside from what was necessary to get the toy working. I care deeply about making things accessible; it's important to me.
The spec people have been very rude to the Lisp people every time something has been brought up. I'm not going to look up everything that's been written, but here's an example:
The page was written to render well if you turn reader view on, and the color schemes are all in one line and easy enough to change. The only thing missing from the reader view is the aside, which is silly and in proper contrast on the original page.
However, the contrast is WCAG AA-conformant (except for the links that aren't in a black box, which aren't important links, as I went out of my way to confirm as I wrote the post). The page is actually pretty accessible.
Accessibility is important to me, as many people I've known in my life have been disabled, but so are silly aesthetic choices.
It was intentional, but it also was well-intentioned. That's why it's readable in more or less every web browser, regardless of whether it supports the one line of CSS I'm using, and accessible to screen readers (although I didn't throw in any elements specifically for them, the page is written simply enough that it should work, intentionally).
I don't think you hit the mark at all, as the person who wrote the page. Nothing you note is a bad thing; they're all positives. Superficiality is my specialty.
Your comment kind of shows some biases you might want to work on.
Microsoft's been agitated that the Windows source gets put in a torrent every few years. They haven't been able to rid the planet of that, yet. IPFS is a less-efficient DHT, basically. They might "win" a case legally, but they won't actually be able to take anything down. The value of that sort of technology isn't actually the hosting (very easy to keep something available even over traditional HTTP), but a stable URL/URI (less easy to do, but still solved by BitTorrent years ago).
Previous summary of this article, from a thread with otherwise no activity and with an author that no longer posts on HN, said more elegantly than I could dream of saying: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1047559
HN's hellbans aren't real shadowbans, because other users can see them. They just have to opt-in to seeing potentially offensive content (it's a setting in your profile). Other users can even make banned users' posts visible to everyone!
That's not really the "HN team," though. What you're describing that the partners did is scummy, but makes sense when you realize that partners and dang have effectively an adversarial relationship when it comes to the quality of HN. People invested in you have strong reason to try and ensure your popularity here; they very well could have just tried throwing tips at you to get you to manipulate the site better.
Most people can't stare at the News source for an hour straight without getting a headache, let alone a rich investor type. They wouldn't find much of value in what's been publicly released of it, anyway (the released source is ancient and includes little as far as quality control goes).
If what you're saying is based in truth, you were probably just getting tips from someone with a strong financial incentive to have brute forced their way into understanding the site the manual way (throwing posts at it) rather than someone who had any genuine inside knowledge.
It isn't dang's fault that Patrick has a Google Alert or daemon running for his name (or just has a lot of employees who notify him whenever it comes up). It's not direct control of HN, it's Patrick being enterprising.
dang has done nothing to deserve bad faith, and while I don't like Patrick, either, it's best to keep the knocks on the right doors.
In your defense, Justine's been at this for a long time! Give it time and effort, and you too can do amazing technical things. Potential isn't a concrete thing, it's a set point you can move around.
Throw yourself at the computer, and the computer will do interesting things with you, too.
If it's not working, go at it from a different angle. Sometimes it's helpful to go back in time to come across things. I'd argue that 90% of cool tech phenomenon arises from studying the past to make something cooler in the future rather than any force of sheer will.
A lot of Justine's projects seem to fit this mold (if I remember right she came across the idea for Cosmopolitan after finding that a legacy UNIX feature let you avoid specifying your shell; SectorLISP, McCarthy's metacircular, etcetera).
She even cites someone whose entire deal is doing precisely that: Nils M. Holm.