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πfs - the data-free filesystem!

102 mentions on Hacker News by 87 people: 27 stories, 75 comments · first 2013-08-12 · latest 2026-06-10

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  1. …be interested in πfs, a system for storing and retrieving your data based only on the digits of pi. https://github.com/philipl/pifs
    comment by dmurray · 2018-04-27 · in Illegal prime
  2. …that attempt to store data without using disk space (some cheating required): πfs (a file system) https://github.com/philipl/pifs 0byte (a programming language) https://github.com/MarkDunne/0byte
    comment by woodrowbarlow · 2018-01-12 · in DNSFS – Store files in others' DNS resolver caches
  3. …is relevant here: PiFS installs large volumes of objectionable content and copyright violations ( https://github.com/philipl/pifs/issues/2 )
    comment by s-c-h · 2018-01-07 · in Illegal Prime Number? (2001)
  4. …system that, instead of wasting space storing your data on your hard drive, stores your data in π! https://github.com/philipl/pifs
    comment by wz1000 · 2018-01-07 · in Illegal Prime Number? (2001)
  5. Another good one: https://github.com/philipl/pifs
    comment by empyrical · 2017-10-24 · in Pingfs: A filesystem where data is stored as ICMP Echo packets (2016)
  6. So my take home here is that webscale makes https://github.com/philipl/pifs possible.
    comment by hyperion2010 · 2017-03-15 · in Google Cloud Platform’s Pi API – With access to 750B digits of Pi
  7. Seen this already? https://github.com/philipl/pifs
    comment by rnhmjoj · 2017-03-14 · in Show HN: Every Day Is Pi Day
  8. Every time there is a copyright law debate I think about this: https://github.com/philipl/pifs . As far as we understand the number pi, every single combination of digit is part of it at some point. So technically Pi already contains a…
    comment by fataliss · 2016-09-16 · in Torrent Site Founder, Moderator and Users Receive Prison Sentences
  9. …for astronomy a few could be enough, but for computing all are needed for the perfect filesystem https://github.com/philipl/pifs
    comment by gmuslera · 2016-03-19 · in How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need?
  10. You might find PiFs interesting: https://github.com/philipl/pifs P.s. As the author states in issue #2, "the release date of pifs is an important part of understanding what's going on" ;)
    comment by simon_acca · 2016-01-06 · in Ask HN: Looking for compression algorithm that took 6GB to 800MB. Anyone know?
  11. That experiment has been done before! https://github.com/philipl/pifs
    comment by waxjar · 2015-11-07 · in The European Commission is preparing an attack on the hyperlink
  12. What if it's not random but π? https://github.com/philipl/pifs
    comment by kozhevnikov · 2015-07-24 · in The Infinite File Download
  13. My personal favourite: https://github.com/philipl/pifs
    comment by empyrical · 2015-06-04 · in RedditStorage
  14. …recognition (via social media images) a thing. Build a huge pi-as-a-service, and use it with pifs ( https://github.com/philipl/pifs ) Bonus points: worlds biggest lolcat host.
    comment by Bladtman · 2015-05-14 · in Ask HN: I just got $100k in AWS credits, how should I use it?
  15. …Amazon Glacier is implemented this way, and that's why it takes hours to recover a file. [0] - https://github.com/philipl/pifs
    comment by malka · 2015-03-26 · in Amazon Goes After Dropbox, Google, Microsoft with Unlimited Cloud Drive Storage
  16. I love Datagenetics posts. Related: https://github.com/philipl/pifs
    comment by goodmachine · 2015-03-19 · in Pi, PINs and Permutations
  17. Theoretically, everything can. And there's a FUSE implementation: https://github.com/philipl/pifs
    comment by BuildTheRobots · 2015-03-15 · in Can all books be found somewhere within the number Pi?
  18. See also: https://github.com/philipl/pifs and https://github.com/philipl/pifs/issues/23 I admit this fooled me for a bit. Good news is, I won't be fooled again by something similar :)
    comment by gbl08ma · 2015-03-08 · in The $5000 Compression Challenge
  19. You could maybe use something like pi-fs :) https://github.com/philipl/pifs
    comment by dvirsky · 2015-03-08 · in The $5000 Compression Challenge
  20. A fun project on similar lines: https://github.com/philipl/pifs
    comment by bonchibuji · 2014-07-30 · in Illegal prime number
  21. …of the commits were made on March 31, 2012[1]. And there's even a reference to the pi joke[2]. [1] https://github.com/philipl/pifs/commits/master [2] http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/01/Jun/pi.html
    comment by bonchibuji · 2014-07-11 · in File system that stores location of file in Pi
  22. …a joke -though one with compile-able and usable code), but piFS [1] kinda does what you want... [1] https://github.com/philipl/pifs
    comment by BuildTheRobots · 2014-06-11 · in Your birthdate in the decimal expansion of Pi
  23. …of your message in bits. It's a bit tongue in cheek, but this is exactly what piFS[1] does. [1] https://github.com/philipl/pifs
    comment by BuildTheRobots · 2013-10-25 · in Gzip + poetry = awesome
  24. Not to spoil your weekend project, but someone's done it already :) https://github.com/philipl/pifs
    comment by tjgq · 2013-10-25 · in Gzip + poetry = awesome
  25. πfs? https://github.com/philipl/pifs
    comment by out_of_protocol · 2013-08-24 · in Converting Pi to binary: Don't do it