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ahefner.livejournal.com is a personal blog at ahefner.livejournal.com about programming. Since 2008, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Fun with Lisp: Programming the NES”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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13mentions?
12HN people?
2008–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2023

Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link these posts on Lisp, including writing an assembler in Lisp and a post on NES hardware and its colour registers. They are cited as related reading on Lisp and retro hardware.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Fun with Lisp: Programming the NES
    4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-02-23
  2. Fun with Lisp: Programming the NES (2012)
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-02-07
  3. Interval sequences in Common Lisp
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-08-20

What Hacker News says?

  1. matheusmoreira · 2024-01-07
    Is it possible to use delayed evaluation instead of explicit phases? Like the assembler from this article: https://ahefner.livejournal.com/20528.html

    Comment linking /20528.html

    on “Scheme modules vs. whole-program compilation: fight”
  2. felipebueno · 2014-11-27

    Submitted Fun with Lisp: Programming the NES (2012) as a story · 135 points

    HN discussion
  3. Jach · 2025-05-04
    Yeah it's good to call that out. If the author used the term embedded systems there'd be less room for disagreement, as there is a pretty wide spectrum there -- obviously a RasPi that can run Linux is more than enough as far as hardware goes. I also don't think you'll find any CL implementation running out of the box on a $5 ESP32 like you can do with uLisp, but if you hooked up external memory perhaps you could get…

    Comment linking /20528.html

    on “A simple Common Lisp web app”
  4. nice1 · 2010-01-31

    Submitted McPixel, a frivolous lisp hack. as a story · 28 points

    HN discussion
  5. Jach · 2023-08-26Recommends
    An interesting related and older project is this post showing a bit of using Lisp to write code for the NES: https://ahefner.livejournal.com/20528.html Making an assembler in Lisp is not a daunting project.

    Comment linking /20528.html

    on “NES Emulator in Common Lisp”
  6. Jimmy · 2009-07-07

    Submitted Adventures in Lisp application deployment as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  7. onion2k · 2022-12-30
    That's not quite true. The NES could reregister colors in the middle of a scanline to get additional colors up to 410 onscreen at once. https://ahefner.livejournal.com/11670.html I doubt any games used this though.

    Comment linking /11670.html

    on “Color Formats in CSS”
  8. pwg · 2012-02-07

    Submitted Fun with Lisp: Programming the NES as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  9. nickb · 2008-08-20

    Submitted Interval sequences in Common Lisp as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  10. gnosis · 2011-04-12

    Submitted Interval sequences (from Factor to Common Lisp) as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  11. tosh · 2017-08-19

    Submitted Fun with Lisp: Programming the NES as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. rcarmo · 2024-05-31

    Submitted Fun with Lisp: Programming the NES as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. reflektoin · 2023-02-23

    Submitted Fun with Lisp: Programming the NES (2012) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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