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mega-nerd.com
Personal blog · mega-nerd.com/erikd/Blogprogrammingsystems
mega-nerd.com is a personal blog at mega-nerd.com about programming and systems. Since 2008, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Calling from C into Ocaml (2009)”. 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
HN readers link mega-nerd.com as the home of audio software by its author, including libsndfile and libsamplerate (SRC). The comments cite it for these libraries and for Fairlight trivia.
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?
- Calling from C into Ocaml (2009)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-09-22
What Hacker News says?
Discussion of the Fairlight here on HN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18225377 Trivia - one of the Fairlight engineers wrote the open source 'libsndfile', used everywhere. http://www.mega-nerd.com/
Comment linking /
on “Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” synth sounds”- mk · 2010-12-10
Submitted Functional Programing, Tail Call Recursion and Javascript. as a story · 2 points
HN discussion I have a thought and a question. First, we can only write secure parsers for single file types through enormous effort. My guess is writing secure parsers for dozens of file types is functionally impossible in C. What more secure languages besides C are easy to call from C/C++ codebases? afaik ocaml isn't, at least in the sense that I don't think you can produce a c lib without sucking in the ocaml allocator and oth…
Comment linking /erikd/Blog/CodeHacking/Ocaml/calling_ocaml.html
on “Exploitable vulnerabilities found in Kaspersky Anti-Virus”Submitted Why I don't like LinuxCAD (1998) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSpeaking of a resampler you trust, I’ve had good experience with libsamplerate ( http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/ ), which as of 2016 is BSD licensed.
Comment linking /SRC/
on “How problematic is resampling audio from 44.1 to 48 kHz?”Submitted Calling from C into Ocaml (2009) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Distros and Test Suites as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dear Dell, I want to buy a laptop without paying the Microsoft tax as a story · 1 points
HN discussion