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Cam Pedersen
Personal blog · campedersen.com · on HN as ectoprogrammingdesign
Cam Pedersen's personal blog at campedersen.com covers programming and design. Since 2011, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 45 times, most often “The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Cam Pedersen's posts on the singularity as breakdown of human institutions, the brep-kernel series on a vibe-coded CAD project, and pages on the Loon language and terminal mode.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-02-10
- Building a CAD Kernel in One Night3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-01-28
- Loon Is a Lisp2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-02-19
- How to Get to Tomorrow2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-30
- The $6 Bug2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-11
What Hacker News says?
reminds me of this blog post: https://campedersen.com/singularity
Comment linking /singularity
on “Claude Haiku 5.5”Submitted Neural Boids as a story · 33 points
HN discussionAccountability is not possible when progress moves faster than law. It was noticed around 2023 when it was clear that legal is outpaced by technology that this is a runaway process with no turning back and no accountability. There was a blog here on HN about a year ago that showed that the singularity is most likely going to be human institutions breaking down completely https://campedersen.com/singularity
Comment linking /singularity
on “OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems”Submitted What would an LLM OS look like? (2023) as a story · 28 points
HN discussionI like the design, very clean. I did something similar at http://mugshotwars.com/ Elo is a fun algorithm. You can read about my implementation at http://campedersen.com/
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on “Pic A Fight: Instagram meets FaceMash”Submitted The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday as a story · 20 points
HN discussionI'm wrapping up my 6th month of using an iPad as my main computer [1] and this is one of my largest remaining annoyances. Working on frontend code is a huge pain, and I often have to resort to hacks like alert()ing to debug problems. Weinre [2] is great but it's in a separate tab and requires you to run a server. It would be great if someone wrapped this into a React component so you could drop an <Inspector /> into…
Comment linking /2017/06/30/ipad/
on “Eruda: Console for Mobile Browsers”Submitted cad0: A Text-to-CAD Model as a story · 7 points
HN discussionHey there! I'm open sourcing https://campedersen.com/cad0 today! It's not professional-level yet (about a week old) but I think the next model generation could get there
Comment linking /cad0
on “Ask HN: When will LLMs generate professional-level CAD models?”Submitted How to make Mark Zuckerburg's FaceMash with Node.js and Redis as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI made my own lisp, Loon! https://campedersen.com/loon
Comment linking /loon
on “Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI”Submitted The $6 Bug as a story · 3 points
HN discussion(forgot to mention, it's wired up to Claude so you can vibe CAD, like OP but with a few more steps - I'd like to train a similar model soon! I also wrote about my first stab at this https://campedersen.com/cad0 )
Comment linking /cad0
on “GenCAD”Submitted Cutting Up Curved Things (With Math) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionReaders may enjoy my open source Rust BRep CAD kernel https://github.com/ecto/vcad or the hosted version at https://vcad.io . I also wrote a bit about what goes into CAD apps! https://campedersen.com/tessellation
Comment linking /tessellation
on “GenCAD”Submitted Hung by a Thread as a story · 3 points
HN discussion...and don’t forget Loon Lang — it’s a gem: https://loonlang.com By the way, “they” is actually just one person: Cam Pedersen — https://campedersen.com So far, he’s shown incredible productivity (with Claude Code). I integrated his vcad into my toy project here, and it worked on the first try, which is quite impressive for such a young project: https://github.com/darwin/supex/tree/dev Definitely keep an eye on him.
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on “Dune3d: A parametric 3D CAD application”Submitted What would an LLM OS look like? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionTerminal mode is golden: https://campedersen.com/terminal
Comment linking /terminal
on “Loon Is a Lisp”Submitted Sharing Audio in React with useContext as a story · 3 points
HN discussionPerhaps relevant: https://campedersen.com/loon This looks like a really neat project/idea; seeing the road map is exciting too, nearly everything I'd want. I don't love the brackets syntax, or the [op val1 val2] ([* x x]) style, but I appreciate the attempt at clarity and consistency and none of these things are dealbreakers. I do wonder why they've leaned so hard into talking about the type system being out of sigh…
Comment linking /loon
on “Loon: A functional lang with invisible types, safe ownership, and alg. effects”Submitted iPad as my Main Computer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionBut is it this near https://campedersen.com/singularity
Comment linking /singularity
on “Kevin Kelly – The Singularity Is Always Near”Submitted How to Get to Tomorrow as a story · 2 points
HN discussionDamn, even his blog posts sound AI-written: https://campedersen.com/brep-kernel "I'm not building a weekend project. I'm building a Fusion 360 replacement."
Comment linking /brep-kernel
on “Vcad: Free BRep CAD in the Browser”Submitted How to Get to Tomorrow as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYes, vibe coded. The author has posted several other articles about this whole vibe coding project, like this one: https://campedersen.com/brep-kernel
Comment linking /brep-kernel
on “Vcad: Free BRep CAD in the Browser”Submitted Area Man Discovers Gravity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Loon Is a Lisp as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Paper, Scissors, Gravity as a story · 2 points
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