Articles by sph
48

It's all about momentum (combo.cc)

5

Most of What You Read on the Internet Is Written by Insane People (2018) (reddit.com)

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Poet-Diplomat (wikipedia.org)

1

The Cathedral and the Bizarre (marktarver.com)

1

Using Godot for GUI App Development (2024) (popcar.bearblog.dev)

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Nostr and ATProto (2024) (shreyanjain.net)

2

Djot is a light markup syntax derived from Markdown (djot.net)

2

A Platform-Jumping Prince (jordanmechner.com)

1

Technologies as Forms of Life [pdf] (charleston.edu)

4

How to live 100 years (ca. 1558) (archive.org)

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A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy (2003) (archive.org)

2

Comparing floating-point numbers (2012) (randomascii.wordpress.com)

4

Loko Scheme, an optimizing, bare-metal Scheme compiler (scheme.fail)

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[flagged] Why are there no thunderstorms in the UK? (onepotscience.com)

3

Venture Capital Extremism (vcinfodocs.com)

1

Implementing a Thread Library on Linux (2003) (evanjones.ca)

2

Futurist Programming Notes (1994) (graficaobscura.com)

34

From string to AST: parsing (2019) (kubuszok.com)

1

Permacomputing Aesthetic in Computational Art, Design and Culture (2023) [pdf] (monoskop.org)

17

Why does Lisp use cons cells? (1998) (xach.com)

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Lisp is Not an Acceptable Lisp (2006) (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)

1

Practical compilation of fexprs using partial evaluation (arxiv.org)

3

Can anything spark Europe's economy back to life? (economist.com)

3

Parsing Expressions by Recursive Descent (mun.ca)

2

Building Your Own Dynamic Language (2007) [video] (youtube.com)

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The Syndicated Actor Model (syndicate-lang.org)

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Actors, Tuples, and π (mobile-process-calculi-for-programming-...

8

Tell HN: Please add a way for people to contact you in your profile

12

Making CCP tech open source will enable EVE Online to live forever (gamesindustry.biz)

1

Certified Email (wikipedia.org)

1

A Crash Course on the Depths of Win32 Structured Exception Handling (1997) (bytepointer.com)

3

Pratt parsing and precedence climbing are the same algorithm (2016) (oilshell.org)

17

Working with jumbo/unity builds in C/C++ (austinmorlan.com)

3

Ask HN: How to monetize the one-off service?

1

Prosperity Public License – the all-in-one noncommercial software license (prosperitylicense.com)

1

The Parity Public License (paritylicense.com)

27

Making Sense of Acquire-Release Semantics (davekilian.com)

1

IPv6 architecture and subnetting guide for network engineers and operators (apnic.net)

1

System Extensions from Flatpak (gnome.org)

1

Packrat Parsing from Scratch (bruce-hill.com)

9

Beware of the Turing tar-pit (2004) (raganwald.com)

2

Community (combo.cc)

3

Explicit Sync Merged into Wayland (zamundaaa.github.io)

2

Today marks the 120th anniversary of the Entente Cordiale between UK and France (wikipedia.org)

103

Stop Killing Games (stopkillinggames.com)

38

Ask HN: How to run an old-school mailing list?

2

Ask HN: What do you recommend for SaaS broadcast emails?

1

The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to "The Office" (2009) (ribbonfarm.com)

1

The PIOSEE decision model for critical situations (franciscomelojr.ca)

3

How legacy IPv6 addresses can spoil your network privacy (2022) (theregister.com)

1

Transatlantic exchange shaped Italy's illustrious coffee culture (qz.com)

1

On the design of Text Editors (arxiv.org)

1

YAMLScript – a functional programming language whose syntax is encoded in YAML (yamlscript.org)

12

Flathub: One million active users and growing (flathub.org)

24

Show HN: Bernard – a link checker for your website (bernard.app)

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Speedbump – a TCP proxy to simulate variable network latency (github.com/kffl)

14

Bootstrapping a simple compiler from nothing (2002) (archive.org)

8

Terse: A language with hi-level look-and-feel, low-level control (1995) [pdf] (terse.com)

1

No moon landing until 2026 after NASA delays next 2 Artemis missions (space.com)

47

How does one patch KDE2 under FreeBSD? (2012) (knowyourmeme.com)

1

Shall we fork Fedora? (2014) (archive.org)

28

Pascal in Forth (1983) (tangentstorm.github.io)

2

Bootstrapping a simple compiler from nothing (2002) (archive.org)

1

Lossless web navigation with trails (2017) (freecodecamp.org)

36

Ask HN: Reddit died, nothing took its place. What will happen when HN dies?

75

The British Library URL has been offline due to cyberattack for 10 days (bl.uk)

1

The unreasonable UX of email verification (combo.cc)

60

Work only 3 hours a day, but everyday (2016) (plumshell.com)

66

Zip – How not to design a file format (2021) (greggman.com)

1

Ronald Wayne, the third Apple co-founder (wikipedia.org)

3

The PGP Problem (2019) (latacora.com)

2

The DNSSEC Root Signing Ceremony (cloudflare.com)

2

Does computer science have a future? (2009) (tekkie.wordpress.com)

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[dupe] Fan-made port of Wipeout (PSX) for modern browsers (phoboslab.org)

72

The Bipolar Lisp Programmer (2007) (marktarver.com)

21

Ask HN: What is the most powerful, fully open, fully programmable computer?

47

My history with Forth and stack machines (2010) (yosefk.com)

3

A short ballad dedicated to the growth of programs (1986) (ashwinram.org)

3

Cola – combined lambda/object architecture (piumarta.com)

2

Home Office backs facial recognition technology to curb shoplifting (theguardian.com)

2

ELIZA (wikipedia.org)

1

M-x doctor (emacswiki.org)

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A Firefox-only minimap (2021) (stefanjudis.com)

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[flagged] BRICS gold-backed currency coming in August (dailyreckoning.com)

2

Practical Cryptography for Developers (nakov.com)

1

Capitol Hill Babysitting Co-Op (wikipedia.org)

3

Ask HN: What are some promising decentralised, P2P streaming protocols?

1

AutoEq – four easy steps to make your headphones sound better (autoeq.app)

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fe: A tiny, embeddable language implemented in ANSI C (github.com/rxi)

1

Program design in the UNIX environment (1983) [pdf] (cat-v.org)

5

Ask HN: Where to find Bitcoin and crypto tech discussion without the hype?

1

freshcode - Open source software release tracking (freshcode.club)

3

Ask HN: Any resources for adversarial anti-AI countermeasures?

67

‘Mind-boggling’ methane emissions from Turkmenistan revealed (theguardian.com)

2

Emacs Docs – The modern documentation website Emacs deserves (emacsdocs.org)

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How Does an FPGA Work? (sparkfun.com)

40

Banana Equivalent Dose (wikipedia.org)

10

Ask HN: Has the British contract market dried up, or am I just unhireable?

5

Girl with deadly inherited condition is cured with gene therapy on NHS (theguardian.com)

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ISO 3103 – a standard cup of tea (wikipedia.org)