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Lunacy is a fork of Lua 5.1 being actively maintained

5 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 5 comments · first 2021-12-29 · latest 2026-05-13

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  1. …https://github.com/samboy/MaraDNS/blob/master/coLunacyDNS/lu... https://github.com/samboy/lunacy/blob/master/src/lmathlib.c#... But it works without issue: rg32.randomseed("shakna3") print(string.format("%x",rg32.rand32())
  2. Thank you for your concern. I fixed CVE-2014-5461 for Lunacy back in 2021: https://github.com/samboy/lunacy/commit/4de84e044c1219b06744... This is discussed here: https://samboy.github.io/MaraDNS/webpage/security.html#CVE-2... In addition,…
  3. …ttps://maradns.samiam.org/lunacy/SamDiscussesLunacy.pdf Source files (.odt file, fonts used by book): https://github.com/samboy/lunacy/tree/master/doc Hope this helps!
    comment by strenholme · 2025-10-07 · in The evolution of Lua, continued [pdf]
  4. …in the real world, for the record—I would put mainly FIPS approved algorithms on a short list. [1] https://github.com/samboy/lunacy [2] https://github.com/samboy/ndjbdns [3] Solar Designer did use MD5 to encrypt passwords for Wordpress…
  5. …32-bit systems as if it’s a future pipe dream, but apparently -D_TIME_BITS=64 works right now. [1] https://github.com/samboy/lunacy [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Indiana [3] To ruin a classic sadistic interview question for sys…
    comment by strenholme · 2021-12-29 · in Glibc is still not Y2038 compliant by default