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Atomized
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Atomized is a personal blog at atomized.org about programming and culture. Since 2009, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Digg v4: They can't go back”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Atomized mainly for its hosted Cocoa Emacs nightly binaries for OS X, which come up in Emacs setup threads. Other posts cited cover Digg's engineering talent and Cocoa Emacs builds.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /wp-content/cocoa-emacs-nightly/3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2009-02-04
- Digg v4: They can't go back2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-08-31
What Hacker News says?
Digg never seemed like the kind of company that was run by an engineering culture. It feels like a MySpace type of company, where they have good marketing / media people but not about the technology and platform. One thing that suggests this is that most of the early engineering talent has left [ http://atomized.org/2010/08/they-can%E2%80%99t-go-back/ ] , which is not something you see at Google, Facebook, or even R…
Comment linking /2010/08/they-can%E2%80%99t-go-back/
on “Kevin Rose steps down as CEO of Digg”Submitted Why Lisp is Awesome as a story · 37 points
HN discussionCocoa Nightly :) http://atomized.org/wp-content/cocoa-emacs-nightly/
Comment linking /wp-content/cocoa-emacs-nightly/
on “Ask HN: What apps are essential for mac?”Submitted Old McCarthy Had a Form as a story · 25 points
HN discussionIf you liked running Emacs under X11 then you'll probably like Carbon/Cocoa Emacs. There are binaries available: http://atomized.org/wp-content/cocoa-emacs-nightly/ http://aquamacs.org/nightlies.shtml
Comment linking /wp-content/cocoa-emacs-nightly/
on “Ask HN: Emacs users on OS X, what's your setup?”Submitted Digg v4: They can't go back as a story · 5 points
HN discussionNightly from here: http://atomized.org/wp-content/cocoa-emacs-nightly/ Config: http://github.com/bretthoerner/emacs-dotfiles/tree/master I maintain a very OS X-y feel, among other things.
Comment linking /wp-content/cocoa-emacs-nightly/
on “Ask HN: Emacs users on OS X, what's your setup?”Submitted Maybe Later as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNightly Cocoa Emacs binaries (Intel-only) are available at http://atomized.org/wp-content/cocoa-emacs-nightly/
Comment linking /wp-content/cocoa-emacs-nightly/
on “Ask HN: Emacs users on OS X, what's your setup?”Submitted So long, unlimited data as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSeems entirely intentional... <!--[if IE]> <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://atomized.org/wp-content/themes/atomized2/ie.css type="text/css" media="screen"> <![endif]--> I find it pretty hilarious, myself. The site is quite nice in firefox, but I would have immediately turned away if I were using ie. He must be making some assumptions about his readers.
Comment linking /wp-content/themes/atomized2/ie.css%20type=
on “Why Lisp is Awesome”Submitted Where Shall We Have Lunch? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe 23 Cocoa build is a bit broken, though: http://atomized.org/2009/08/cocoa-emacs-231-cvs-builds-and-t... I've since reverted to the Carbon Emacs 22 build (since I can't cope without fullscreen).
Comment linking /2009/08/cocoa-emacs-231-cvs-builds-and-the-nextstep-port/
on “Ask HN: Best code editor?”