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Daniel Wellman
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Daniel Wellman's personal blog at blog.danielwellman.com covers programming, games and career. Since 2008, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Real-life Tron on an Apple II GS”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Daniel Wellman's 'Real-life Tron on an Apple IIgs' post, about a lightcycle game whose bug let the program run off into system memory. It is cited in threads on memory bugs and undefined behaviour.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Real-life Tron on an Apple II GS10 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2008-10-08
- Real Life Tron on an Apple IIgs (2008)5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-12-13
What Hacker News says?
Story: http://blog.danielwellman.com/2008/10/real-life-tron-on-an-a...
Comment linking /2008/10/real-life-tron-on-an-apple-iigs.html
on “Block-breaking game in vim 8.0”Submitted Real-life Tron on an Apple II GS as a story · 139 points
HN discussionReminds me of this blog post about a Tron game that didn't check memory bounds either: http://blog.danielwellman.com/2008/10/real-life-tron-on-an-a...
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on “A single line of Basic sends readers into a labyrinth”Submitted Real Life Tron an an Apple IIgs as a story · 63 points
HN discussion> I did have some problems throughout the contest with my choice of C++ -- in fact without Valgrind, my entry may never have run correctly. (Turns out one of my algorithms was "escaping" off the border of the map and scribbling in RAM) But hey, I've been dealing with problems like that for more years than I care to count right now. :D http://blog.danielwellman.com/2008/10/real-life-tron-on-an-a...
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on “Google AI Challenge: Winner post-mortem and source code”Submitted Real Life Tron on an Apple IIgs as a story · 11 points
HN discussionThis has been posted before[0], two[1] and four[2] years ago, and is a delightful and fascinating read every time. It's fun to anthropomorphize the AI running amok in the system's memory, and wonder if we'll ever see something analogous happen with more sophisticated AIs in the future. [0] http://blog.danielwellman.com/2008/10/real-life-tron-on-an-a... [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2087367 [2] http://news.…
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on “Real-life Tron on an Apple II GS”Submitted Real Life Tron on an Apple IIgs (2008) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionthat reminds me of this awesome story http://blog.danielwellman.com/2008/10/real-life-tron-on-an-a...
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on “Something is erasing my program while it's running (oh wait oops)”Submitted Five Things "This is Spinal Tap" Taught Me About Software Development as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIndeed!: http://blog.danielwellman.com/2008/10/real-life-tron-on-an-a...
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on “Tetris for Applesoft BASIC”Submitted Real Life Tron on an Apple IIgs (2008) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThat reminds me of "Real Life Tron on an Apple IIgs". There's something so charming about system memory being misinterpreted. https://blog.danielwellman.com/2008/10/real-life-tron-on-an-...
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on “Even "cat readme.txt" is not safe”Submitted Real Life Tron on an Apple IIgs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionReminds me of a similar story of someone creating a Tron lightcycle game on an Apple IIgs. They had created a bug so that the lightcycle could travel off-screen and into memory, causing all sorts of undefined behaviour. https://blog.danielwellman.com/2008/10/real-life-tron-on-an-...
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on “Ask HN: What's Your Proudest Hack?”Submitted Real Life Tron on an Apple IIgs as a story · 1 points
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