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Bemmu Sepponen
Personal blog · bemmu.com · on HN as bemmuprogrammingculture
Bemmu Sepponen is a personal blog at bemmu.com about programming and culture. Since 2010, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 34 times, most often “Experimental music from very short C programs”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
Bemmu Sepponen's blog of small code demos, including one-line procedural music and a texture-mapped raycaster in 128 bytes. HN readers link it alongside other formula-music experiments.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Experimental music from very short C programs4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2011-09-30
What Hacker News says?
What kind of collision detection do you use? I was inspired by your games to try something similar for the latest Ludum Dare: http://www.bemmu.com/compo/ludum/37/index.html At first I tried checking every creature for collisions against everything else, but unsurprisingly that was too slow (N^2). To reduce the checks I put each creature in a grid cell based on their position, then check for collisions only against c…
Comment linking /compo/ludum/37/index.html
on “WebRTC: the future of web games”Submitted Two years of life as an expat coder in middle-of-no-where Japan as a story · 176 points
HN discussionCool. But yours outputs 16-bit signed audio whereas by default /dev/dsp outputs 8kHz 8-bit unsigned audio, so it sounds a little bit different. Also, http://www.bemmu.com/music/index.html beat you to it and http://wurstcaptures.untergrund.net/music/ also does URL-formulas :). (As an aside, bemmu's is creating a 16-bit signed .WAV data from 8-bit signed functions, so it isn't doing it quite right either. Why not just…
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on “Algorithmic symphonies from one line of code”Submitted Which countries are mentioned the most on Hacker News? as a story · 171 points
HN discussionTokushima, Japan. Not a particularly inspiring environment, besides the good beaches and view of the mountains. Non-existent developer community. Sufficiently sized city (200k) to have everything you need. Fun festivals. For our family of two adults and a baby, our living cost is very roughly $3000 / month. Biggest cost is my health insurance, second highest expense is rent, our place is $720 / month. You need a car…
Comment linking /what-it-costs-to-live-in-japan
on “Ask HN: Location-independent entrepreneurs, where do you live and why?”Submitted I asked GPT-3 to make a presentation for me as a story · 166 points
HN discussionHi, yes actually I tried exactly that. It cost me $60 / customer, which is over my lifetime value so I discontinued advertising there. Here's my stats from the attempt: http://www.bemmu.com/stats-from-advertising-candy-japan-on-r... Things might be different now, the page was less optimized back then. I might try again later, but I'm really hoping Reddit would just lower their minimum daily spend. Right now they hav…
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on “Candy Japan April Income Report”Submitted Hack your motivation as a story · 159 points
HN discussionI started this to learn and to provide some basic source of income in addition to software, so it has worked well for that purpose. It has involved writing more software than I expected, though! Earlier posts are at http://www.bemmu.com/ with currently no easy way to see only the Candy Japan related things. I was still feeling a bit undecided where to put them, wondering if it's a good idea to expose customers to in…
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on “Candy Japan April Income Report”Submitted Sysop Chat as a story · 110 points
HN discussionbemmu Hopefully you see this, unfortunately your comment is dead. Because I think your comment has value I will quote it here, please let me know if you'd like it removed. "You can also have procedural music. Viznut (a legendary Finnish democoder) did some experiments to see how short you could code something that still sounds at least interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtQdIYUtAHg I also wrote piece of Ja…
Comment linking /music/index.html
on “A texture-mapped raycaster in 128 bytes”Submitted AirWheel electric unicycle review as a story · 92 points
HN discussionThat hero one is sweet. Here's how many polys I could push with HTML5, still a long way to go: http://www.bemmu.com/experiments/hl1/index.html
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on “HTML5 vs Flash”Submitted LASIK 6 months later as a story · 62 points
HN discussionHere's my review from trying one a while back: http://www.bemmu.com/airwheel-electric-unicycle-review It was a ton of fun but I did not end up using it in real life because of the low range and unsure legal status. I still miss having one though and might buy a newer model later to give it another go, it was so much fun to ride.
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on “Airwheel – electronic thingamy some Sydney residents are using to get about”Submitted Getting LASIK eye surgery as a story · 56 points
HN discussionSubmitted Two years after LASIK eye surgery as a story · 53 points
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HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Multiple choice video webgame experiment as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Monkey Light M232 review as a story · 10 points
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HN discussionSubmitted What I Learned from the Priceonomics “Content Marketing Handbook” as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Monkey Light M232 review as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Experimental music from very short C programs as a story · 2 points
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