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Carl Banks
Personal blog · blog.aerojockey.comprogramminggames
Carl Banks's personal blog at blog.aerojockey.com covers programming and games. Since 2017, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “IOCCC Flight Simulator”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link Carl Banks' write-ups on the IOCCC Flight Simulator and a C tic-tac-toe written in a single printf call. The comments describe these posts but do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /post/iocccsim2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-08
- IOCCC Flight Simulator2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-08-20
What Hacker News says?
> The IOCCC Flight Simulator was the winning entry in the 1998 International Obfuscated C Code Contest. It is a flight simulator in under 2 kilobytes of code, complete with relatively accurate 6-degree-of-freedom dynamics, loadable wireframe scenery, and a small instrument panel. > IOCCC Flight Simulator runs on Unix-like systems with X Windows. As per contest rules, it is in the public domain. https://blog.aerojock…
Comment linking /post/iocccsim
on “Ask HN: What piece of code/codebase blew your mind when you saw it?”Submitted IOCCC Flight Simulator as a story · 251 points
HN discussionCorresponding write-up: https://blog.aerojockey.com/post/iocccsim
Comment linking /post/iocccsim
on “C implementation of Tic-Tac-Toe in a single call to printf (2020)”Submitted IOCCC Flight Simulator (2010) as a story · 165 points
HN discussionAnd how is it different from, let us say, the current's sweetheart, JSON? (The comparison is not exclusive to JSON, though.) JavsScript Object Notation makes a lot of sense to describe... The JavaScript objects. But, nowadays, I see it universally applied. As a recent personal experience, I had to use it to serialise communication between a C++ and a Java application---two statically typed languages, with basic type…
Comment linking /post/iocccsim
on “In Defense of XML”