philipl/pifs on Hacker News

It's an idea as old as time. Or 8 years, at the very least: https://github.com/philipl/pifs In expectation, a k-digit sequence will require a k-digit number to encode its offset, so there's no compression there. Then again, there's this…

comment by andreareina · 2020-01-14 · in Images Created from Prime Numbers

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πfs

story by antonios · 2019-10-27 · 0 comments

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Πfs: Never worry about data again

story by vadansky · 2019-10-25 · 1 comment

Somewhat related: https://github.com/philipl/pifs If the expansion of pi is normal then all your data is already in it

comment by vadansky · 2019-10-25 · in Six Nines in Pi

…programming this idea very briefly a couple years ago but I got pulled away for something else. [1] https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by tombert · 2019-08-11 · in Hutter Prize: Compress a 100MB file to less than the current record of 16 MB

Of course, describing that subset is itself using bits https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by __s · 2019-08-08 · in Metaprogramming for madmen (2012)

even there is a filesystem powered by it ! https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by Zardoz84 · 2019-03-17 · in Famous Transcendental Numbers

this is perfect for mounting the Pi filesystem :) https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by zimbatm · 2019-03-14 · in Calculating a record-breaking 31.4T digits of Pi with GCP

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The π Filesystem for FUSE: Store Your Data in π

story by xtracto · 2019-02-22 · 1 comment

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Πfs – the data-free filesystem

story by tokai · 2019-02-09 · 0 comments

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pifs - Avoid disk space usage by saving your files in the digits of Pi

story by personjerry · 2018-12-15 · 1 comment

…not do that). Obvious counterexamples to "just store things in files" are /proc on Linux, pifs ( https://github.com/philipl/pifs ) and Plan9. Note that Perkeep provides a FUSE interface, i.e. you can use files. Being slightly less…

comment by chriswarbo · 2018-09-18 · in Perkeep: personal storage system for life

Here's an implementation of precisely that, as a filesystem: https://github.com/philipl/pifs Discussed here previously (2014): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8018818

comment by amake · 2018-08-01 · in A bootable CD image with a retro game in a single tweet

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Πfs GDPR compliance

story by kirillseva · 2018-05-23 · 0 comments

…information. Someone actually went ahead and implemented a file system based on this idea: https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by _jomo · 2018-04-27 · in Illegal prime

…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

…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

…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)

…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)

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)

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

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πfs – A data-free filesystem

story by rnhmjoj · 2017-03-14 · 105 comments

Seen this already? https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by rnhmjoj · 2017-03-14 · in Show HN: Every Day Is Pi Day

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

…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?

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Πfs – the data-free filesystem

story by joshstrange · 2016-03-02 · 0 comments

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Πfs: Stores your data in π

story by chenzhekl · 2016-01-07 · 1 comment

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?

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Πfs: Never worry about data again

story by wslh · 2016-01-06 · 1 comment

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

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Πfs – the data-free filesystem

story by cdvonstinkpot · 2015-11-01 · 0 comments

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Πfs – the data-free filesystem

story by rgawdzik · 2015-10-23 · 0 comments

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Πfs – the data-free filesystem

story by kissmd · 2015-09-24 · 0 comments

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Πfs – the data-free filesystem

story by sevko · 2015-09-07 · 0 comments

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PIfs: store every file you or anyone else has ever created or will create

story by maxschumacher91 · 2015-09-07 · 0 comments

What if it's not random but π? https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by kozhevnikov · 2015-07-24 · in The Infinite File Download

My personal favourite: https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by empyrical · 2015-06-04 · in RedditStorage

…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?

…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

I love Datagenetics posts. Related: https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by goodmachine · 2015-03-19 · in Pi, PINs and Permutations

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?

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

You could maybe use something like pi-fs :) https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by dvirsky · 2015-03-08 · in The $5000 Compression Challenge

A fun project on similar lines: https://github.com/philipl/pifs

comment by bonchibuji · 2014-07-30 · in Illegal prime number

…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

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File system that stores location of file in Pi

story by morisy · 2014-07-11 · 98 comments

…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

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100% Compression Using Pi

story by gburt · 2013-11-08 · 32 comments

…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

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