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Elliott Slaughter
Personal blog · elliottslaughter.com · on HN as eslaughtprogrammingsystems
Elliott Slaughter's personal blog at elliottslaughter.com covers programming and systems. Since 2010, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “A Personal History of Legion, by Way of Its Papers”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Elliott Slaughter's blog for its Lisp game engine work, such as the Blackthorn 3D post, cited as a resource on Lisp in games and graphics.
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?
- A Personal History of Legion, by Way of Its Papers4 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2024-02-12
- What are the enduring innovations of Lisp? (2022)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-12-31
What Hacker News says?
Yes, I worked on GC as a summer project. Turned out to be way harder than anyone had thought because LLVM isn't really set up to handle high performance GC. I have a talk on it here: https://elliottslaughter.com/2012/09/rust-precise-gc/
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on “Announcing Rust 1.0 Alpha”Submitted 3D Game Engine in Lisp as a story · 58 points
HN discussionThis is interesting, but the names are probably just pulled from US census data. If you want something to generate new names, try https://elliottslaughter.com/names/rand which uses (admittedly simple) machine learning algorithms to generate new names.
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on “Fake Name Generator”Submitted Show HN: AWS Infrastructure for Stanford Course in Parallel Programming as a story · 48 points
HN discussionLisp has a rich history in games and graphics that you are not apparently aware of yet -- here's a few mostly Common Lisp Game Engines and resources to get you started (though GOAL was a Scheme variant): 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Oriented_Assembly_Lisp 2. https://elliottslaughter.com/2011/06/blackthorn-3d - Last updated in 2020 https://bitbucket.org/elliottslaughter/blackthorn-engine-3d/src/master/ 3. ht…
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on “Lisp-stick on a Python”Submitted What are the enduring innovations of Lisp? (2022) as a story · 32 points
HN discussionI had my own "oh shit" moment in my PhD, which I wrote about among other things, here: https://elliottslaughter.com/2024/02/legion-paper-history I'll just add one more comment: it's entirely possible to feel like everything you're doing is worthless, when in fact you are on the brink of accomplishing something worthwhile. That's not to say that every research project is worthwhile, but "how I feel right now" is mayb…
Comment linking /2024/02/legion-paper-history
on “How to graduate your PhD when you have no hope”Submitted Dialogue Tags: An Empirical Study as a story · 8 points
HN discussionJim Keller's Tenstorrent ($1B funding to date) is shipping $1K PCIe manycore accelerators, with open-but-immature software, https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/27/tenstorrent_ai_blackh... > compute.. is handled by 140 of Tenstorrent's Tensix cores, each of which is composed of five "Baby RISC-V" cores, a pair of routers, a compute complex, and some L1 cache.. Tensix cores account for 700 of the 752 so-called baby RI…
Comment linking /2024/02/legion-paper-history
on “Barrelfish OS Architecture Overview (2013) [pdf]”Submitted Terra 1.0.0 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://elliottslaughter.com/ An eclectic combination of a long-running (but infrequent) blog, technical projects, and academic papers.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted A Personal History of Legion, by Way of Its Papers as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> it is a career-ending failure It depends highly on the field. In history, sure. The point of getting a history PhD is to become a history professor, and you can't do that if you don't get the PhD, and meanwhile history PhDs don't meaningfully open up any other job prospects, so attempting and failing to get a PhD provides negative value. In CS and many engineering disciplines, there is a long history of people dro…
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on “A Survival Guide to a PhD (2016)”Submitted On the State of Terra in 2022 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dialogue Tags: An Empirical Study as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Build Truly Private Email in Ten Easy Steps as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Personal History of Legion, by Way of Its Papers (2024) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Personal History of Legion, by Way of Its Papers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Personal History of Legion, by Way of Its Papers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Are the Enduring Innovations of Lisp? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Are the True Innovations of Lisp? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Attempt to Explain the Uselessness of Political Flame Wars as a story · 1 points
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