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Comment by franciscoapinto | Hacker News Reader

Very beautiful, but I think the future is actually something like http://ideone.com. I'd also like to be able to manually set the language for syntax highlighting purposes. I have to give these guys major props on the simplicity/prettiness of the UI and providing keyboard shortcuts for everything (even for twitter!).

EDIT: Oh, and like some other commenters I liked how the URLs are made of consonant-vowel pairs, so as to make them pronounceable. Very cool touch!

EDIT2: I promise to not edit this further, but I'd also like to congratulate them on the sane colorscheme. Very easy on the eyes, espec. compared to something like pastebin.com

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you can change the url to correct the language. ie: http://hastebin.com/lerapaduma.erl (auto detected), to http://hastebin.com/lerapaduma.rb

Thanks, mate.

Yes, this is a very nice feature. I noticed that mine was autodetected incorrectly[1] but just for shiggles I changed the extension to `.js`[2] and it highlighted properly.

[1]: http://hastebin.com/qumirixiqo.lisp [2]: http://hastebin.com/qumirixiqo.js

Re pronounceable: I wonder if it makes any sense at all to use full words (from a dictionary), assembled into sentences (using a grammar). They'd be much longer, but (possibly) more readable and memorable. I'm sure this has been done - I wonder how it worked out?

The key generation is swappable. Currently I have implemented "random" and "phonetic" but this would be a neat (and easy to add) addition. I'll look into it.

The problem with this approach is that it implies relevance to the domain.

If I link you to http://hastebin.com/daqasujoko.rb you're thinking either "that's a ruby file" or "that's a URL".

If I link you to http://hastebin.com/foodcatsphone.rb you're thinking "what does this have to do with food, cats or phones?"

Note I specified a grammar, though no semantics. This means sentences, that (usually) will be bizarre and surreal. Like nonsense phonemes, nonsense sentences will (usually) not have any apparent meaning; though both can be suggestive.

A "random" example might be "acatimpliedoncolourlessphones.rb"

It's amazing to me that ideaone is not hacked every day. I wonder how they do it.

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