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Mark Carter's personal blog at mcturra2000.wordpress.com covers programming, math and economics. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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2020–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2020

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Why HN links it

The linked posts describe a Raspberry Pi brown-noise sleep device, with a schematic and a write-up of its later enclosure. The only comment is by the author, so no outside view of the writing is given.

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Investing, mathematics, programming

What Hacker News says?

  1. You're welcome. I did a write-up from some time ago: https://mcturra2000.wordpress.com/2019/09/03/brown-noise-sle... AFAIK the schematic is accurate. Use the bottom one because I do like the filtering. White noise tends to be too harsh for my liking. Although it is one of my earlier projects, it has proved to be a good and enduring solution (to me, anyway). It has since acquired a snazzier encasement using balsa woo…

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    on “I finally found a use case for my Raspberry Pi Model B+”
  2. Submitted A recursive descent parser in Forth as a story · 71 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted I became a Perl 5 programmer by mistake as a story · 7 points

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  4. Submitted An assembler for a virtual machine (Raku) – Mark Carter as a story · 4 points

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  5. Submitted Let's dump the partition table in Raku as a story · 3 points

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  6. Submitted My goal is to use dlang in 2022 as a story · 2 points

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  7. Submitted Raku grammar hints about creating a templating system – Mark Carter as a story · 1 points

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